Geiser, Reto2019-05-162019-05-162019-052019-04-02May 2019Collard, Steven Michael. "Momentary Place A City For Ten Thousand." (2019) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105371">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105371</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105371This investigation centers around how a city of 10,000 residence could form from a reinterpretation of the train station not only as a gateway but as a destination in and of itself. My project questions the urban potential of a train station inserted into a small rural community between two of America’s largest metropolitan hubs, Houston and Dallas. This city acts as a framework to test and push ideas of an almost "tabula rasa" like condition, in which architecture, infrastructure, and urbanity, are thought of not as disparate parts but as a synthetic culmination of highly dense, yet porous neighborhoods, within a city not dependent on the automobile but the pedestrian.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.urbanismhigh speed railThesis2019-05-16