TY - JOUR
TI - Linear megastructures. An eccentric pursuit in tackling urban sustainability challenges
AU - Tufek-Memisevic, Tijana
AU - Stachura, Ewa
TI - Linear megastructures. An eccentric pursuit in tackling urban sustainability challenges
AB - 
	Linear megastructures, apart from megastructures in general, are one of several types of concepts in context of linear urban development. The term refers to various compact architectural, infrastructural and transportation plans in linear form. With their daunting massive scale these concepts are often attributed to utopian attempts of pursuing an ideal city and therefore doomed to remain unrealized. This paper examines several models created throughout the course of history in terms of their emergence motivation, socio-economic circumstances and relation to urban sustainability. Through the analysis, it is argued that linear megastructures are often unjustly rejected without acknowledgement of their underlying beneficial features in terms of mitigating challenges to sustainable urban development.
VL - 2019
IS - 29/2019
PY - 2020
SN - 1731-2442
C1 - 2543-8700
SP - 54
EP - 59
DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.19.041.11672
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/artykul/linear-megastructures-an-eccentric-pursuit-in-tackling-urban-sustainability-challenges
KW - linear
KW - megastructure
KW - utopia
KW - transit-oriented