UNIVERSAL DESIGN: PUBLIC SPACES FOR ALL -- 7

Detroit — MAde Studio

In Detroit, MAde Studio has made universal design a central part in its approach to transform a long-abandoned railway cut into a greenway that provides barrier-free access to historic neighborhoods, some largely vacant and in need of great civic space to spark rebirth.

Architects Jen Maigret and Maria Arquero have designed an urban greenway out of Dequindre Cut, a railway created in the 1920s to move freight to industrial hubs in the growing city.

Near the Detroit River, the cut is at grade, but as it moves north, it is more than 25 feet below grade