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81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn

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The Garden Is a Grid City

It's a grid city it's called it's dense but not super dense no the roads are quite wide their roads are all over 20 meters wide. The transport is by primarily by railway between the districts i got a sense of like rail and trance on most big broad roads so it's tall but with less of the land covered in buildings than you would expect and a central population. He calls it an air center yeah i think like slang people off for um talking about how the parks are the lungs of the city which he is very down on in modern architecture to be honest.

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