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

About Buildings + Cities

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The Urban Core of the Ringstrasse

Otto Wagner's late proposal modular plan for the expandable city is a sort of late version of his kind of thinking which he's developing from the 1890s onwards. It covers an area 40 by 30 kilometres which is like London and the M25 kind of area 20 times the size. And I wasn't quite sure but what population you think is in anticipating like when that thing's built out to its full extent. Yeah I mean it's becoming like a mega city.

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