Our cities have changed. No longer can they be characterized as a social fabric in which interpersonal interaction plays an active and vital role in the daily experience of their inhabitants. Rather, they have evolved into a series of distinct networks tenuously linked together by the mass transportation systems which characterize and facilitate our modern existence. Although we must certainly acknowledge the benefits of these systems as they connect individuals across distance, we cannot deny that they dilute the journey of social context and rob individuals of a civic experience not only on the level of the city, but also within their local environment. This Masters Degree Project seeks to suture our fragmented local networksthroughthedevelopment of multiple transit oriented developments, and is tested through a locally specific design in south Calgary, in order to reinvest our cities with social content and civic function.

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