Messina develops its urban space on a “Libeccio line” in the SW-NE direction, being constrained on the South-East side by the sea and on the North-West side by the Peloritani mountains. This configuration makes it very similar to the ideal “long narrow city” modelled by Solow and Vickrey (1971), where traffic direction is essentially longitudinal, moving people, goods and commodities from one side to the other of the city. Solow and Vickrey do not consider problems of urban rent or demographic and residential density. Rather, they focus their attention on the optimal shape of the urban road, and their problem is to define the best equilibrium between the width of a central road and the dimension of a surrounding business area within a linear city, under the assumption of a uniform distribution of destinations over the longitudinal urban space.
Mistakes and erroneous solution in urban planning: the project for a bridge over the Strait of Messina
SIGNORINO, Guido
2006-01-01
Abstract
Messina develops its urban space on a “Libeccio line” in the SW-NE direction, being constrained on the South-East side by the sea and on the North-West side by the Peloritani mountains. This configuration makes it very similar to the ideal “long narrow city” modelled by Solow and Vickrey (1971), where traffic direction is essentially longitudinal, moving people, goods and commodities from one side to the other of the city. Solow and Vickrey do not consider problems of urban rent or demographic and residential density. Rather, they focus their attention on the optimal shape of the urban road, and their problem is to define the best equilibrium between the width of a central road and the dimension of a surrounding business area within a linear city, under the assumption of a uniform distribution of destinations over the longitudinal urban space.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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