Down The Line In Gateway And Beyond

Abstract

“I have used my time and resources through this master’s project to develop a speculative design of a car-free development. My design is intended to be a prospective design grounded in idealism similar to Ebenezer Howard’s ‘Garden Cities of Tomorrow’. Like Howard’s ‘Garden Cities’ I am proposing something new and beyond Transit Oriented Design. As of yet no large-scale intentionally designed car-free urban developments exist. There are car-free districts and towns in the world. Most have come to be car-free through some combination of impoverishment, lack of population, tourist appeal, lack of space for large roads, or geographic isolation.”

“This project has become an endeavor in research-through-design. I have searched through existing research and combined these with my own ideas to develop a number of goals and objectives essential to a car-free development. I implemented these into a concept masterplan for a transit-oriented district within an existing city. I then further developed a hierarchy of circulation typologies and areas of detailed design. And finally I concluded with a self-critique. My intention is that this can be used as a precedent by those who would attempt more work in the field of car-free urban design and transit-oriented development. It may prompt more intentional work in this area.”