Your Transit Station: A Place to Fall in Love? AICP CM 1.5 There may be more than transit and riders connecting at your 21st-century station. Nowadays, being an efficient transit access point is not the only design challenge. Stations anchor place making and build communities. Your station has to create value and be a good neighbor. It has to be a place where someone could fall in love. Hear three transit romance stories: Minneapolis’s new Target Field Station features great public spaces and integrated development. Reconstruction of two rapid transit stations in Cleveland’s University Circle is turning “scary places” into vibrant urban spaces. The transformation of Pittsburgh's East Liberty BRT station anchors an impressive strategy to bring back a blighted former urban renewal district that's attracted Google and Whole Foods. Moderator: Val J. Menotti, Planning Department Manager, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California Peter David Cavaluzzi, FAIA, Principal, Perkins Eastman, New York, New York Alan Hart, AIA, Founding Principal, VIA Architecture, Vancouver, British Colombia Rebecca Schenck, Senior Project Development Specialist, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1. Open Transit
The Ways We Design and Develop Cities
“ A Place to Fall in Love”

2. A “Grand” Place to “Fall in Love”

3. The “Heart” of the World

4. “Meet Me at the Clock”

5. A Sequence of Spaces

6. Historic park ave
Creating an Address

7. A Place to Relax

8. “Spread the Love”

9. Growing the “Heart” of the City

10. Places that Inspire

11. Bringing it All Together

12. • Integration of all available transit modes
• An orientation towards real estate
development
• Architecture that makes iconic spaces
• Integration of culture with transit design
• Appeal for non-transit users
“Open Transit”
The Secret Recipe:

13. Target Field Station
The Next Great Place to Fall in Love

14. A Central Place for Transit

15. Fifth & Fifth
In the “Heart”
Fifth Street
FifthAvenue

16. North Loop Identity

17. Multi-function Space

18. All Modes of Transit

19. Stormwater Collection & Reuse

20. Transit and Development

21. Iconic Spaces

22. Transit & Culture

23. A Station as a Theater

24. “The Next Great Place”
To Fall in Love!!

25. A Walk Through the Light Garden

26. A Cultural Gathering

27. Using All Modes

28. A Place to Relax

29. Under the Canopy

30. A Cool Passage

31. Romantic Lighting

32. An Attraction for All

33. “The Next Great Place”
To Fall in Love!!