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The average distance between two inhabitants of a linear city would be 57 km (35 mi), as opposed to 2.9 km (1.8 mi) for a circular city. In a linear city, each inhabitant would have only 1.2% of the population in walking distance as "people are as far away from others as possible", as opposed to 24% in a circular city.
Arturo Soria y Mata's idea of the Linear City (1882) [1] replaced the traditional idea of the city as a centre and a periphery with the idea of constructing linear sections of infrastructure - roads, railways, gas, water, etc.- along an optimal line and then attaching the other components of the city along the length of this line.
Later that week, I tackled another patch of the desert that covers 100,000 square miles across Arizona, California and Mexico, heading off-road in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) into parts I was ...
State Route 79 (SR 79) is an approximately 106-mile (171 km) north-south state highway in the U.S. state of California. The highway's southern terminus is at Interstate 8 (I-8) at the Descanso Junction in San Diego County. Its northern terminus is at Interstate 10 (I-10) in the city of Beaumont in Riverside County.
Plans to build a $200-million water pipeline across the Mojave Desert to supply the city of Ridgecrest are angering environmentalists, farmers and miners.
Dubbed Stella Terra, the solar-powered EV completed a journey of over 600 miles through Morocco. Student-Built Solar-Powered Off-Road Camper Completes 620-Mile Desert Trek Skip to main content
Socorro City Hall. As of the census of 2000, there were 8,877 people, 3,415 households, and 2,151 families residing in the city. [24] The population density was 615.8 inhabitants per square mile (237.8/km 2). There were 3,940 housing units at an average density of 273.3 per square mile (105.5/km 2).
The homeowners rounded up more than 1,000 acres of land in New Mexico,and built a modern, 500-square-foot home of steel and glass -- Check it out!