Kiryat Gat’s potentially vibrant urban core currently suffers from stratified land uses, limited connectivity between neighborhoods, and constrained crossing to the city’s industrial district. A railroad that separates the core from the industrial district can only be crossed via a bridge near the southern border of the city; this barrier hinders movement between these areas and consequently economic activity. However, underutilized post-industrial land adjacent to the railroad is ripe for redevelopment and offers the opportunity to stich the city’s core to its industrial district. Our strategic plan for this area, dubbed the Hinge, centers on the concept of crossing gradients on several different scales. Its goal is to create new tensions and capitalize on existing ones along a main core connector and across the railroad tracks, pulling residents and workers in both directions. This improved connectivity would support transit-oriented development in and around the Hinge that would extend to and incorporate other anchors in the city, catalyzing an increase in density, activity, and commerce.