the new york times tackles the evolving nature of parking lots, and the new approaches in their design:
As the critic Lewis Mumford wrote half a century ago, “The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city.” Yet we continue to produce parking lots, in cities as well as in suburbs, in the same way we consume all those billions of plastic bottles of water and disposable diapers.
What to do?
For starters we ought to take these lots more seriously, architecturally. Many architects and urban planners don’t. Beyond greener designs and the occasional celebrity-architect garage, we need to think more about these lots as public spaces, as part of the infrastructure of our streets and sidewalks, places for various activities that may change and evolve, because not all good architecture is permanent. (via)
1 comment:
The way that one is in the picture - with all the cars and arrows going the same way, and you pull in right behind someone else - is how it is in the Mickey & Friends parking structure at Disneyland. It's a good system.
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