Ciudad Lineal
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Ciudad Lineal is a district in Madrid
(Spain
).
, the linear city
, based on the idea of the line. The main street in the district has his name, Arturo Soria street.
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
(Spain
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Subdivision
The district is administratively divided into 9 wards (Barrios):- Atalaya
- Colina
- Concepción
- Pinar de Chamartín (also named Costillares)
- Pueblo Nuevo
- Quintana
- San Juan Bautista
- San Pascual
- Ventas
History
Its name, Linear City, comes from the model of organization by the Spanish architect Arturo Soria y MataArturo Soria y Mata
Arturo Soria y Mata was an internationally important Spanish urban planner whose work remains highly inspirational today. He is most well known for his concept of the Linear City for application to Madrid and elsewhere....
, the linear city
Linear city
The linear city was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation. The city would consist of a series of functionally specialized parallel sectors. Generally, the city would run parallel to a river and be built so that the dominant wind would blow from the residential areas to the industrial strip...
, based on the idea of the line. The main street in the district has his name, Arturo Soria street.