ABSTRACT
For the past five years, the Master of Infrastructure Planning Program in the New Jersey School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology has offered studio courses that conduct research, planning, and design for community-based clients and public agencies. The Riverside Transit Village Project began in 1999 in anticipation of the impact of light-rail service on Riverside, a community in southern New Jersey. The e-station project developed the prototype of an advanced form of bus station for inner-city low-income communities. The Jersey City bayside development project represents the first collaboration involving the program, other institutions, and a professional firm. The design studio focused on the supermarket site and assumed that the e-station design would be located next to the market’s entrance. The service-based Master of Infrastructure Planning Program has created a productive new interface between public agencies and municipalities and professionals, successfully mediating among them in synergistic ways.
