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Arturo Soria y Mata

1844 - 1920

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Arturo Soria y Mata (1844-1920) was an internationally important Spanish urban planner whose work remains highly inspirational today. He is most well known for his concept of the Linear City (exemplified in Madrid's Ciudad Lineal). He studied the civil engineer career (Ingeniero de Caminos), but he didn't finish it. Arturo Soria y Mata's idea of the Linear City (1882) replaced the traditional idea of the city as a centre and a periphery with the idea of constructing linear sections of infrastructure - roads, railways, gas, water, etc.- along an optimal line and then attaching the other components of the city along the length of this line. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arturo Soria y Mata is the 384th most popular architect (down from 352nd in 2019), the 1,367th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,258th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Spanish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Arturo Soria y Mata ranks 384 out of 518. Before him are Kunio Maekawa, Rudolf Wolters, Herman Sörgel, Martin Gropius, Juan de Villanueva, and Walter Burley Griffin. After him are Georges Candilis, Mihály Pollack, Mario Bellini, Kadir Topbaş, Lorenzo Gafà, and Alberto Palacio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Arturo Soria y Mata ranks 82. Before him are Jules de Burlet, Alois Riehl, Camille Lemonnier, Dimitrios Rallis, Paul Taffanel, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. After him are Alexei Fedchenko, Mutsu Munemitsu, Klaus Berntsen, William Robert Brooks, Vladan Đorđević, and Lewis Powell. Among people deceased in 1920, Arturo Soria y Mata ranks 95. Before him are Heinrich Lammasch, Olive Thomas, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Ömer Seyfettin, Olive Schreiner, and Teresa of the Andes. After him are Théodore Flournoy, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Theodor Philipsen, Luc-Olivier Merson, Gérard Leman, and Edmund Reitter.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Arturo Soria y Mata ranks 1,367 out of 3,355. Before him are Manuel García (1805), Arturo Pomar (1931), José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa (1743), Miguel Ángel Moratinos (1951), Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo (1824), and Paco Tous (1964). After him are José Planas (1901), Valentín González (1904), Chiquito de la Calzada (1932), Francisco Umbral (1932), Sancho Gracia (1936), and Pedro Casaldáliga (1928).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Spain

Among architects born in Spain, Arturo Soria y Mata ranks 16. Before him are Josep Lluís Sert (1902), Félix Candela (1910), José Benito de Churriguera (1665), Josep Maria Jujol (1879), Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515), and Juan de Villanueva (1739). After him are Juan Gómez de Mora (1586), Enric Miralles (1955), Ventura Rodríguez (1717), Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza (1918), and Patricia Urquiola (1961).

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