Sunday, September 14, 2008
Initial Thoughts
In most parts of the world, transportation nodes are considered to be undesirable spots for housing. By 'undesirable' I mean to say that most people that do live in such proximity to these nodes are usually low-income families. However, since the need for public transportation is constantly increasing, a solution should be found. One that offers housing, and ease of access by public transportation and yet allow for everyone to enjoy the best of both worlds. For the tenants: privacy, shelter, intimacy, social life; and for the public transpotation- fast and easy access, multiple means of transportation.
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Tal,
Positive Synergy between (Urban) Housing and Public Transportation is vital to the healthy development and sustainable growth of the city. A thesis dedicated to that relationship sounds like a valuable contribution to architecture and urban planning. Such a study might include,
1) The value of public transportation.
2) Public Transportation systems in development and their potentials
3) The various modes of public transportation and their spatial/operational/environmental parameters
4) Case studies of positive and negative interrelationships between housing and public transportation
5) Planning the two: The impact of inserting public transportation within developed urban areas, vs. new neighborhoods that grow around transportation nodes
6) Political processes for planning and building transportation infrastructure
7) Criteria for judging success of Public Transportation and Housing
8) What type or range of housing is appropriate in proximity to Transportation types
9) What other programmatic features integrate and support the two?
10) Utopian Concepts and current/historical planning models
11) Physical attributes and conditions
Your design work might be utopian in nature. Developing a series of prototypes that seek to maximize the positive relationships you have identified in your criteria..
Thoughts? Reactions?
Oh my!!
alan- this is so overwhelming and yet very exciting. I like your suggestions and will start collecting valueable info. We had a very inetresting talk with Charles Correa in Mumbai and he gave me some very interesting ideas..... I'll discuss them in thesis meeting.
Tal
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