Tarek Rakha and Christoph Reinhart

Final Course Presentation

This seminar explored the relationship between outdoor thermal comfort and people’s mobility mode choices. The underlying premise is that, if provided with comfortable environments that are suitable for walking and biking, people will choose this option over alternative modes of transportation. We further investigated what role architects and urban designers can play in creating such spaces. As a semester-long course project we investigated the street network between the main MIT and Harvard Campuses in Cambridge with the goal of developing and designing a network of biking paths that will further connect the two communities.