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  1. Match the concepts in Group I with the personalities in Group II
    Group IGroup II
    P. Linear City1. Le Corbusier
    Q. Radiant City2. Paolo Soleri
    R. Garden City3. Louis Kahn
    S. Arcology4. Soria Y Mata
    5. Ebenezer Howard

    1. P-4, Q-3, R-5, S-1
    2. P-3, Q-1, R-4, S-2
    3. P-4, Q-1, R-5, S-2
    4. P-1, Q-5, R-2, S-4
Correct Option: C


Soria Y Mata's Linear city was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation, consisting of a series of functionally specialized parallel sectors. Generally, the city would run parallel to a river so that the dominant wind would blow from the residential areas to the industrial strip. The sectors of alinear city would be a purely segregated zone for railway lines, a zone of product ion and communalenter prises, with related scientific, technical and educat ional institutions, a residential zone, including a band of social institutions, a band of residential buildings and a "children's band", a park zone, and an agricultural zone with gardens and staterun farms (sovkhozy in the Soviet Union).
In 1935, Le Corbusier combined the efficiency of the high rise typology with the philosophy of the garden city movement in La Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City). Despite receiving criticism by cont emporary critics for their inherent segregation and sterility, the plans are a significant contribution of the Modernist movement and went on to influence planned cities such as Brasilia, Brazil, in the 1960's.

Ebenezer H oward's Garden City aimed t o reduce the alienation of humans and society from nature and thus advocated Garden cities (planned, self contained communities surrounded by greenbelts containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture) and Georgism (economic value derived from land should belong equally to all members of society). The garden city movement was initiated in 1898. Howard's 3 magnets diagram addressed the question "where will the people go?", the choices being Town, Country or Town-Country. A garden city would be a "cluster ed city" with multiple town centers, each with population under 5,000 people.

Arcology, a portmanteau of 'architecture' and ‘ecology' is an ideal integrated city contained within a massive vertical structure allowing maximum conservation of the surrounding environment. The concept was given by Paolo Soleri.



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