b"MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSRESEARCH THESIS Mayuri SodaniHuman experience and transit hubs in a global city: Singapore as a case studyToday's global cities that are at the forefronta large number of people and are celebrated of rapid urbanization and ever increasingas the central feature of many exemplary TOD technology have begun to shift from the urbandesigns. As well as providing citizens with theories propagated by Kevin Lynch andaccess to transport services, these transit Gordon Cullen. It is an indication of a genuinelynodes have become an important recreational 21-century way of thinking. It has led manyurban place for people to meet, eat and shop. urban designers to rethink the notion of a city'sIn Singapore, where more than 65% of the imageability and whether the classic theoriespopulation commutes by public transportation. of urban design remain relevant for designingthe transit nodes are not merely a technical a city today. The literature available on transitlubrication into the public transportation and interchanges and transit-oriented developmentpedestrian circulation systems, they are the 169 (TOD) is mostly planning based and not urbannew hybrid spaces shaping the city. This paper design based. Similarly, the concept of urbanlooks at the social role of these new urban spaces in theory has always been related tospaces and studies the historical development streets, squares, plazas and parks. In recentof transit interchanges to better understand the decades, new types of urban spaces haveurban spatial character of these nodes and undergone transformation particularly in highthe opportunities for place making and better density cities like Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo,user experiences within these hubs and how Seoul or Beijing with one new hybrid publicto successfully integrate them to a city's public space emerging as the transport interchangerealm.or transit node. These spaces are used daily by MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networksnormal research page0131 8 PT.indd 12 26/11/2019 5:02:48 PM"