Open AccessLINEAR CITY: INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PROJECTS
Author(s) -
Vasily Filippov
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gradostroitelʹstvo i arhitektura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-2109
pISSN - 2542-0151
DOI - 10.17673/vestnik.2019.04.21
Subject(s) - world war ii , history , operations research , public administration , management , political science , engineering , archaeology , economics
Two projects of the Linear City, which appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, in the United States, regardless of the project implemented earlier in Spain by Arturo Soria, are described. The technical and town-planning features of the Roadtown project by Edgar Chembless and the social ideas underlying it are given. The reasons for the failure of this project, as well as similar projects that appeared later, are analyzed. The history of the project of Milo Hastings and his idea of a linear concentration of dwellings in the city are given. Although this project was also not implemented, the reasons why its town-planning ideas found application in the post-war construction of the American suburb and social ideas in the New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt are shown.