1. THE LINEAR CITY: A MODEL OF A SUSTAINABLE CITY? The linear city was a proposal made by Arturio Soria at the end of the 19th century, to turn Madrid into a more human city , a city which was closer to nature.

2. Arturo Soria´s aim was to solve some of the problems that Madrid had at that time: transport, overpopulation and sanitary conditions.

3. There were two different theories to solve the problems caused by the industrial revolution:

5. Hygienist theories: Their objective was to improve the sanitary conditions of the city. The proposals to achieve this were: - to plant trees near the houses - to buid wider streets - to build detached or semidetached houses so that the different families didn´t live so close to each other.

6. The most important objective was to combine nature and city.

11. Houses in the linear city

12. A middle- class house The living room The bathroom

13. Indoor gardens the Hall

14. TYPES OF HOUSES “ The dreadful monotony of yesterday has now been corrected “.( A joke about the project !)

15. Prototipos de casas de la ciudad lineal Arturo Soria let the architects free to build different models of houses in order to avoid monotony.

16. Compañía Madrileña de Urbanización was the company in charge of the project

18. It also had space for vegetable gardens and for groceries

19. for leisure and for cultural and sport activities. A school Colegio de Huérfanos de la Armada A theatre Casino Sport facilities