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Vibrant street life is often celebrated in urban neighborhoods because it acts as the social glue for the community. The Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania had rich street life and culture in the early to mid-20th century due to its human-scale urban fabric. Urban renewal efforts, starting in the 1940s, deemed areas of the neighborhood slums; a large portion of the neighborhood was demolished and replaced with large-scale civic architecture and parking lots. Over the next 60 years, these efforts tore at the social cohesion of the Hill District by destroying its urban fabric, which ultimately led to its dilapidation. As the street has historically been the social component of the public realm, it will be the focus of physical design solutions for restoration of sociability and sense of community in the Hill District. This thesis will establish criteria from the literature for human-scale sociable streets and perform case study analysis to inform the design of one residential and one commercial street in the Hill District.

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