Anchor Point: Restructuring Transit Stations into a Neighborhood's Social Fabric

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Anchor Point: Restructuring Transit Stations into a Neighborhood's Social Fabric

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: Anchor Point: Restructuring Transit Stations into a Neighborhood's Social Fabric

creator: Noemi Jiminian

subject: Maverick Square (Boston, Mass.); East Boston (Boston, Mass.), Buildings, structures, etc.; Community development; Terminals (Transportation), Designs and plans; Wentworth Design Excellence Award winner (2019)

description: Gentrification puts everything under one local market, but it is well known that developers don’t invest in the preexisting communities and public transportation. The development that occurs around transportation hubs, which are historically places of dense activities, follow this logic of commercial spaces. This further exasperates the community experiences in the surrounding neighborhood. Transit nodes redefine what gets developed and control what development does for the community. This has inspired community design strategies catering around these transit nodes. This presentation argues that these spaces are the place that gets redefined as a powerful infrastructure of what gets developed acting as a control for the development of the community. High volumes of people rely on public transportation in various modes from local commuters to town visitors promoting a way of living. These places are typically called “nonplaces” as they only perform the function of passing people through to their next destination. Transit stations act as a landmark but often do not provide any type of social interactions between this diverse pool of people that are walking in and out of these places. It is a social economic - political figure in societies and activates the streets opening up a public landscape making diverse neighborhoods create their own identities. Neighborhoods outside of the immediate city do not benefit from having the public realm throughout their transit centers. Transit hubs attracts local businesses, and more accommodation for the neighborhood. Creating such a center would give identity to a culture or community that has been dismissed with negative connotations. Bridging a gap between the diversity and reinterpreting the transit hubs function will change how a neighborhood stands out to the rest of its urban-context.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

type: Thesis

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