Rebecca Plaza

Rebecca Plaza is the founder of Plaza + Partners, an interdisciplinary team of architects, interior designers, and urban planners, working together to develop sustainable design solutions that are sensitive to the end users needs. Rebecca is the Festival Director of the annual Anthology Architecture and Design Festival, a three-day event that brings together over 5000 local and international practitioners in the built environment in hope for creating better, socially relevant architecture. Prior to this, Rebecca worked at Jestico + Whiles and John McAslan and Partners.

Enhancing Linkages in City Regions: High-Speed Rail and Station Area Development

Countries in Europe and East Asia are expanding their high-speed rail (HSR) networks. Station areas served by HSR are emerging as new hubs of economic and cultural activities, thereby affecting the network of service sector industries in the HSR corridor. Over time HSR cities gain functional specialization, creating a polycentric regional form. The authors show that cities located on a proposed HSR corridor have a varied functional structure and established branch network of firms.