Blueprint- Initial Steps

1. Finalize database of successful case studies for positive and negative interrelationships between housing and public transportation.
a. Determine whether to concentrate on examples in the US/ specific country abroad/multiple places around the world.
b. Narrow down list of cases.
c. Expand research for each case chosen.

2. Determine criteria for judging success of public transportation and housing nodes.
a. Layout
b. Proximity
c. Scale and relative scale
d. Access
e. Location in context of city/ neighborhood.
f. Safety- “eyes on the street”
g. Occupancy

3. Review, revise and refine list of chosen study cases.
a. Cases where housing developed around a pre-existing transportation nodes
vs.
b. Cases where housing came first. → can such a model work
c. Other examples (?)

4. Start thinking of site for thesis- utopian/ tangible.
a. criteria (???)

5. Thesis approache:
a. Choosing specific cases where interrelationship between housing and public transportation doesn’t work and redesign housing to suit.
vs.
b. Developing a series of prototypes that seek to maximize the positive relationships between
the two (i.e.- starting from scratch)