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Id 2989
Author Lee J.M.
Title Urban design in underground public spaces: lessons from Moscow Metro
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Lee J.M. Urban design in underground public spaces: lessons from Moscow Metro,Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 21 4

Keywords Planning; Subway stations; Case-studies; Metro stations; Public transit systems; Social activities; Social life; Underground public spaces; Underground systems; Urban design; Subways
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Abstract This paper examines the history and social life of the underground public spaces in three Moscow Metro stations just north of Red Square and the Kremlin: Okhotny Ryad, Tverskaya, and Ploshchad Revolyutsii stations. Moscow’s subway originated from two motivations: to improve the public transit system and to revitalize Moscow’s centre instead of moving out to the suburbs for growth. To achieve these goals, subway architects and planners devised beautiful and people-friendly subway stations that cannot be observed in other Western cities. The resulting spaces successfully accommodated a high level of social activities in the central halls of the platforms as well as on escalators. Several urban design principles, including “soft edge” and “triangulation props”, can be observed regardless of the designers’ original intent. Moscow’s subway stations are case studies worth exploring before architects and planners design their underground systems. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of the Architectural Institute of Japan, Architectural Institute of Korea and Architectural Society of China.

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DOI 10.1080/13467581.2021.1941978
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