Linear City
Urban planning concepts exploring linear, modular, and adaptive city structures that respond to contemporary needs.
Linear City refers to urban planning models organized along a linear axis rather than traditional concentric patterns. This approach offers alternatives for organizing infrastructure, housing, and civic functions while maintaining connectivity and accessibility across extended territories.
The community explores modular and instant city systems that can be customized and adapted to specific contexts, sustainable renewal strategies for existing urban centers, and how linear organizational principles can integrate transit hubs, civic spaces, and residential areas into cohesive urban environments.
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View all 30 journalsSmart City: An Autonomous Urban Cell That Quarantines a Neighborhood, Not an Apartment
Towers, a rolling green roof and a domed hospital ward form a self-sufficient urban cell built to keep daily life running when the city locks down.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: A Second, Movable City Above Barcelona's Eixample
A post-metabolist plan for Barcelona's Eixample inserts a mobile lattice of modules into the air, rooftops and courtyards rather than razing the grid.
CIVIC HEARTH
Designing Social Infrastructure for India's Industrial Landscapes
Superimpose Architecture Splits a Hangzhou Transit Hub into Valley and Cloud
A 72,000-square-meter mixed-use TOD complex near Alibaba's campus pairs human-scaled green terraces with serene tower volumes.