The linear city was an urban plan

Urban planning

Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....

 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. The sectors of a linear city would be:

1. a purely segregated zone for railway lines,
2. a zone of production and communal enterprises, with related scientific, technical and educational institutions,
3. a green belt or buffer zone with major highway,
4. a residential zone, including a band of social institutions, a band of residential buildings and a "children's band",
5. a park zone, and
6. an agricultural zone with gardens and state-run farms (sovkhozy in the Soviet Union
   Soviet Union
   The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
   
   ).

As the city expanded, additional sectors would be added to the end of each band, so that the city would become ever longer, without growing wider.

The linear city design was first developed by Arturo Soria y Mata

Arturo 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....

 in Madrid

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

Spain

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 during the 19th century, but was promoted by the Soviet planner Nikolai Alexander Milyutin in the late 1920s. (Milyutin justified placing production enterprises and schools in the same band with Engels' statement that "education and labour will be united".)

Ernst May

Ernst May

Ernst May was a German architect and city planner.May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during Germany's Weimar period, and in 1930 less successfully exported those ideas to Soviet Union cities, newly created under Stalinist rule...

, a famous German

Germany

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 functionalist architect, formulated his initial plan for Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk

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, a new city in the Soviet Union, primarily following the model that he had established with his Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

 settlements: identical, equidistant five-story communal apartment buildings and an extensive network of dining halls and other public services.

See also

• Linear village
  Linear village
  In geography, a linear village, or linear settlement, is a small to medium-sized settlement that is formed around a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal. Wraysbury, a village in Berkshire, is one of the longest villages in England....
  
  
• Ivan Leonidov
  Ivan Leonidov
  Ivan Ilich Léonidov was a Russian constructivist architect, urban planner, painter and teacher.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ciudad Lineal
  Ciudad Lineal
  Ciudad Lineal is a district in Madrid .-Subdivision:The district is administratively divided into 9 wards :*Atalaya*Colina*Concepción*Pinar de Chamartín *Pueblo Nuevo*Quintana...
  
  , a district in Madrid, planned as a linear city around the Arturo Soria avenue.

External links

• http://www.ab.ntnu.no/byggekunst/ansatte/ansattesider/moystad/Urban%20by%20Implication.pdf
• http://vietnamcayda.com/diendan/showthread.php?t=3618