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Re:Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready fo... by bombcar on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:34AM (#32764590)
some of the architecture books have talked about it - they theorize the perfect city is about two miles wide and indefinitely long. You run a rail line down the middle (run four, local lines, express; or six and have a middle distance one) and now everyone by definition is about a mile or two from a station and a mile or less from farmland/extreme rural areas.
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Re:Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready fo... by ianai on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:55AM (#32764781)
Sounds more like a basic unit of understanding or modeling a larger system than an actual ideal. Like a single leg of a hub and spoke flight system.

Econ has a similar concept for competition , iirc, “Hotellings line”.

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Re:Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready fo... by bombcar on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:54AM (#32765521)
The series of books of which A Pattern Language [253] is part of strongly argues for it as an ideal and a design principle, not just as a spherical cow.

[253] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

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Re:Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready fo... by Tijdreiziger on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:21AM (#32765109)
The Dutch town of Almere was, more or less, built along a rail line. Every neighborhood has its own station.
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