IN 2025, BUILD LINEAR CITIES

Jean-Maxime Riviere

architect, engineer, French urban planner,

first prize for architecture and urbanism,

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of the foundation of the effeil tower. It was he who renovated the first floor and came up with the idea of transparent glass floors so that tourists could see Paris in height. In addition the architect Riviere is an expert in the Linear City because for ten years he has published various researches and plans on a hypothetical Linear City of the future that will work entirely thanks to renewable energy. On the other hand, travel within the city will only take a few minutes. The system of today's cities has many problems in therme of sustainability, saturation. Today people need to live in communion with nature and space.

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The way we inhabit our planet is one of the main causes of pollution. How to house eight billion people... respecting the ecological limits of the planet. The architect Jean-Maxime RIVIERE's Linear City would make public transit efficient, 95% reduction in the use of land, roads, infrastructure, automotive, oil and CO2 emissions. This type of habitat would meet the needs and legitimate tendency to house 8 billion people in the "Western" while protecting the earth's ecology: drastic reduction in deforestation (less wood needed for housing, heating, cooking), reduced use of arable land, granting new territories to threatened species, reducing water consumption for watering land, mechanizing waste recycling.

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The linear city is an urban plan for an elongated urban formation extending in length around a central axis. The city would consist of a series of functionally specialized parallel areas. In general, the city would parallel a river and be built in such a way that the prevailing wind blows from residential areas to the industrial strip. rethink the urban thing, and why not imagine cities without cars, without streets, where one would build around nature and not on it.