From Edge to Center: Creating Cambridge Crossing
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Creating a new neighborhood from scratch in an older, historic city presents a rare opportunity for city building and placemaking. Cambridge Crossing involved a multidecade effort to reimagine a disused rail yard as a vibrant, mixed-use district at the nexus of Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston.
This former edge condition is being transformed into a new urban center, united through landscape and connected by a revitalized transit station and community path. Join us for this tour to explore how multiple stakeholders and collaborators came together to envision this exciting new neighborhood and continue to shape its future.
Creating a new neighborhood from scratch in an older, historic city presents a rare opportunity for city building and placemaking. Cambridge Crossing involved a multidecade effort to reimagine a disused rail yard as a vibrant, mixed-use district at the nexus of Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston.
This former edge condition is being transformed into a new urban center, united through landscape and connected by a revitalized transit station and community path. Join us for this tour to explore how multiple stakeholders and collaborators came together to envision this exciting new neighborhood and continue to shape its future.
Learning Objectives
- Review the opportunities and challenges inherent in planning and creating a new neighborhood in an existing urban environment from design, process, and economic perspectives.
- Learn how to craft carefully considered master plans that leverage existing contextual relationships to ensure both the success of individual projects and the collective composition as a whole.
- Discover how to anticipate how district plans can evolve over time in response to development and economic cycles and disruptions like the COVID pandemic.
- Gain firsthand experience of how an integrated landscape can function as a connective tissue, create a unique sense of place, and facilitate healthy living.