Showing posts with label Parking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parking. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2015

@LitmanVTPI study: more land is devoted to roads and parking spaces per automobile than is devoted to each person's house.

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"Menos Cajones Más Ciudad" ("Less Parking More City") is a terrific new short video by the wonderful folks at ITDP....
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Parking Madness 2015! It's depressing
what we've done to downtowns
@schmangee @StreetsblogUSA

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Sorted through 26 N. American parking craters this year to make this list. http://t.co/ZoPInUpVFg pic.twitter.com/xiKKlMphxy — Angie Schm...
Friday, March 6, 2015

From Institute for Transportation
and Development Policy —
Infographic: Sizing Up Parking Space

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Sizing Up Parking Space - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Twitter:  @ITDP_HQ
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

From @planetizen — Does your city need a 12-step program to kick its parking addiction?

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Post by The Sidewalk Ballet .
Thursday, January 15, 2015

How @DonaldShoup
Will Find You a Parking Spot

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Post by Nanaimo Commons .
Sunday, July 6, 2014

From Old Urbanist — We Are the 25%:
Looking at Street Area Percentages
And Surface Parking

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Original work:  photoLith Several months ago I posted a  chart  in which I calculated the proportion of land given over to buildable spa...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

From Streetfilms — Parking Craters:
The Scourge of American Downtowns

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Streetsblog's Angie Schmitt popularized the term " parking crater ," and she explains it simply: A parking crater is "...
Monday, May 12, 2014

From Streetsblog.net —
How Silver Spring, Maryland
Outgrew Its Parking Lots

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Photo: Dan Reed for  GGwash In healthy urban areas, people always complain that there’s not enough parking. And they still do that in Si...
Monday, April 14, 2014

From Bloomberg Businessweek —
Cities Haunted by Too Many Parking Spaces

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After decades of copying sprawling suburbs by accommodating the automobile, U.S. cities are starting to tear up their slabs of asphalt. ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

From Medium — You’re a Street Designer (you just don’t know it yet) —
The Design Principles Behind Streetmix

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Chances are that smaller streets around you are changing,  — as is our way of thinking about them. While streets were originally built wit...
Monday, February 17, 2014

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I have become convinced over my 22+ years of practice that municipal requirements for traffic studies & parking studies are usually a wa...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

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Cities need transit to work. MT @urbandata : What cities look like during #transit shut-downs. DC in 1974 bus strike pic.twitter.com/igSez...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Lewis Villegas on Oakridge —
"density without urbanism will add
sprawl and congestion"

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Oakridge—Vancouver’s best suburban mall—is proposing towers in a BIG way. Adding density without urbanism will add sprawl and congestion. A ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

From Grist — Parking Rules Raise Your Rent

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City requirements for off-street parking spaces raise rents. They jack it up a lot at the bottom of the housing ladder. Proportionally s...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

From Grist — Who Parked in my Spot?!: Neighbors, Cars, and “Your” Curb Space

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Soon after advertising executive Necia Dallas moved into a house in Portland, Ore., she found on her door a detailed, hand-drawn map specify...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

From Slate Magazine —
Free Parking Isn’t Free

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Why so much parking smack-dab in the middle of Chicago’s Loop, a walkable area that’s well-served by heavy-rail transit and many buses? Th...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

From Planetizen — The Relationship Between Parking, Perception & Local Businesses

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You ever hear the one about the Main Street merchant who went out of business because he lost all his parking? No? Are you sure? But, i...
Friday, February 22, 2013

From The Atlantic Cities — Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible

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Parking disrupts the urban fabric in places like Hartford where it occupies more than 20 percent of downtown land. Big roads and pa...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

From StreetFilms.org —
The High Cost of Free Parking

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In some city neighborhoods, cruising [in search of a parking spot] makes up as much as 40 percent of all traffic. All this unnecessary traff...