The urban elevated highway was built to boost metropolitan economies by increasing access totheir urban cores. The mid-twentieth century brought thousands of miles of elevated roads thatbifurcated urban neighborhoods, dispersed communities, and created residual uninviting spacebelow the infrastructure. Today, new planning solutions call for the removal of the highway anda return to ground level boulevards. This thesis looks for answers within the existing frameworkto transform the spaces underneath the highway into neighborhood commodities. The researchlooks at the conflict between a desire to design for a future community of the space or theexisting culture of the space. An analytical framework is developed based on relevantstakeholder groups and applied to case studies, resulting in a set of informed guidelines thatanswer the thesis question, What design principles and conventions should be used in order tocreate relevant neighborhood spaces under the urban elevated highway?