Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Importance of the Last Stop

yesterday I posted a link provided by Esther discussing the last stops of the Subway system of NYC. This followed our (super helpful) discussion about why last stops store huge potential for "something" to happen.

I am now looking at Alewife Station in Somerville/Cambridge as a case study.
I know I need to find more precedents and therefore it's probably best to contact the BRA and see what kind of work they have been doing in the city in order to further develop and improve those nodes.

I'll update when I know more... but so far, it looks like my thesis is taking a slightly different course than I thought, now, aiming to create a program around "forgotten" nodes in order to better tie the social infrastructure into the physical (transportation) one.

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