Linear city may refer to: *

Linear settlement A linear settlement is a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line. Many of these settlements are formed along a transport route, such as a road, river, or canal. Others form due to physical r ...

Linear city (Soria design) The linear city is an urban plan for an elongated urban formation that was proposed by Arturo Soria y Mata in 1882. The city would consist of a series of functionally specialized parallel sectors. Generally, the city would run parallel to a ...

, an 1882 concept of city planning *

Linear city (Graves and Eisenman design) The linear city was an urban plan proposed in 1965 by Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman for a 34 kilometer (21.1 miles) long linear settlement between New Brunswick and Trenton, New Jersey. If built, the proposed city would have been 1.6 kilomet ...

, a 1965 proposal for a settlement in New Jersey * The linear city model of

Hotelling's law Hotelling's law is an observation in economics that in many markets it is Rationality, rational for producers to make their products as similar as possible. This is also referred to as the principle of minimum differentiation as well as Hotellin ...

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