Ciudad Lineal

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

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|name = Ciudad Lineal

|settlement_type = District

|image_skyline = Vista de Madrid - Ciudad Lineal 01.jpg

|imagesize = 275

|image_map = Ciudad Lineal District loc-map.svg

|mapsize = 200

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Spain

|subdivision_type1 = Community

|subdivision_name1 = Community of Madrid

|subdivision_type2 = Municipality

|subdivision_name2 = Madrid

|subdivision_type3 = Wards

|subdivision_name3 = {{collapsible list|bullets=y|title={{nobold|List of wards (9)}}

|Ventas (151)

|Pueblo Nuevo (152)

|Quintana (153)

|Concepción (154)

|San Pascual (155)

|San Juan Bautista (156)

|Colina (157)

|Atalaya (158)

|Costillares (159)}}

|leader_title = Councillor-President

|leader_name = Nadia Álvarez Padilla (PP, 2023)

|population = 228,171

|area_total_km2 = 11.43

|population_density_km2 = 19970

|postal_code_type = Postal code(s)

|postal_code = 28017, 28027, 28032, 28033, 28043

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Ciudad Lineal ({{IPA|es|θjuˈðað lineˈal|}}, "Linear City") is one of 21 districts of Madrid, Spain.

Geography

= Wards =

The district is administratively divided into nine wards:

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File:Barrios del Distrito de Ciudad Lineal (Madrid).svg

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History

Its name, Linear City, comes from the model of organization of the same name devised by the Spanish architect Arturo Soria y Mata. The ‘Ciudad Lineal’ takes a form of a city 400 meters wide, centered on a tramway (line 70 - closed in 1972) and a thoroughfare running in parallel. The main street in the district, calle de Arturo Soria, bears his name. The city is the current headquarters for the flag carrier airline of Spain, Iberia.{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9780415252256|pages=3431}} Mariano Belmás Estrada was one of the main architects in the early days.{{cite web|url = http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/43440/mariano-belmas-estrada|access-date = 2019-08-22|df = dmy-all|language = es|title = Mariano Belmás Estrada|author = Óscar da Rocha Aranda|publisher = Real Academia de la Historia|date = 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190822140431/http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/43440/mariano-belmas-estrada|archive-date = 22 August 2019|url-status = dead}}

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