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A linear city gives you more opportunities for expansion. A disc one needs to be planned well from the start, but it's difficult to account for future needs.
by The_Colonel 3y ago
A linear city gives you more opportunities for expansion. A disc one needs to be planned well from the start, but it's difficult to account for future needs.
- woodruffw 3y agoI don’t understand how this can possibly be true. You have one only degree of freedom in a straight line. Most cities develop a natural disc pattern because it allows for expansion at every degree.
- The_Colonel 3y agoThe line is the initial city design. But then in 20, 100, 500 years you have two empty sides (equally accessible from any place in the line city) which you can use for more infrastructure (e.g. airports), industry, recreation, agriculture etc. Meanwhile if you design a disc city, you can keep expanding outwards, but that's going to be increasingly far from the center. It's going to be very difficult to build a new airport into a middle of the city (if such needs arises), meanwhile it's much easier to do that for the middle segment of a linear city.
- gherkinnn 3y agoIfs contingent on whens and you end up with a blob anyway. Until you get to the blob everybody's life is miserable because a line is daft. This is applying the terrible thinking that gives us micro service hell to city planning.
- The_Colonel 3y ago> a line is daft I think your argumentation rests on this, but you should explain why it's daft and how it makes people's lives miserable. I would personally enjoy having 20 minute access to any place in the city I live (which is far from having 9 million people) and still have a vast open space nearby.
- leoedin 3y agoWhy do you think a linear city would give you 20 minute access to any place in the city? Clearly travel time would increase linearly with distance.