Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture

When the automobile was first introduced, few Americans predicted its fundamental impact, not only on how people would travel, but on the American landscape itself. Instead of reducing the amount of wheeled transport on public roads, the advent of mass-produced cars caused congestion, at the curb and in the right-of-way, from small midwestern farm towns to New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Lots of Parking examines a neglected aspect of this rise of the automobile: the impact on America not of cars in motion but of cars at rest...

Parking Structures: Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Repair

Reference on all aspects of parking structures, for owners, structural engineers, architects, contractors and other professionals. Presents material on metric dimensions and recommendations for functional design, and new research on flow capacity for entrances and exits. DLC: Parking garages--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form

The Architecture of Parking

The first comprehensive international survey of one of the most important building types of the modern era: the parking garage. Since the invention of the car, the buildings that house them have been a source of inspiration and consternation to architects. Although many dreary car parks and garages do exist, the challenge of efficiently housing a maximum number of cars in a well-designed space has attracted a stellar array of contemporary architects. From the classic circular Marina City tower in Chicago to the Parcheggio Nuovo Salario under construction in Rome, from...

Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues, Examples, Solutions

Describing the challenges faced by universities and colleges as their student numbers grow, this volume discusses how to accommodate such growth without succumbing to traffic congestion and contributing to urban sprawl.

Traffic Design

Since the last century, most of the public space has been designed for and around the automobile. Gradually, a mostly undifferentiated infrastructure developed into landmark architecture, with buildings and constructions of all kinds that interpret and mark the contemporary's "automobile way of life". Be it parking garages, gas stations, wash-cafés, bridges or motor hotels: the subject has a surprising lot of designs to offer. Paolo Tumminelli's "Traffic design" shows recent interesting projects from the whole world.

Shared Parking

Based on all new data, this book contains information to accurately estimate parking requirements, a chapter on management, and case studies that describe how shared parking has been implemented.

The Dimensions of Parking

Get the latest information on parking development and operations. Whether you plan to offer free or pay parking, you will learn best practices for how to plan, design, finance, build, and operate a parking facility. Updated throughout, this edition covers the impact of sport utility vehicles and lights trucks, and best practices in financing, parking at commuter and subway rail stations and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.