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the-point-of-parking-garages?

For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better.


99% of big projects fail

An economist who spent decades studying ’megaprojects’ has some advice for getting them right: Think slow, act fast and build brick by tiny plastic brick.


Papanek – Big Character Poster No. 1

Victor J. Papanek's Big Character Poster No. 1: Work Chart for Designers (1973, drafted in 1969).


Repeal Robert Moses

Highways are a racist legacy. It is time to tear them down. And for once, let communities decide what gets built in their place.


Traffic in Towns

Traffic in Towns was an influential report and popular book on urban and transport planning policy published 25 November 1963 for the UK Ministry of Transport by a team headed by the architect, civil engineer and planner Colin Buchanan.


How Parking Ate an American Metropolis

We still, however, haven't tackled one of the biggest transformations that Kansas City's total embrace of the automotive, commuter culture wrought upon the city's historic fabric. And that is parking.


The social ideology of the motorcar

The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people.


A Map of Every Building in America

There was a time when every car's glove compartment was crammed with tattered fold-out road maps, trim rectangles that became table-size monsters that challenged you to refold them neatly.


The Moving Forest

Dutch architects NL created a forest of 100 trees planted in shopping trolleys at the Urban Play event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which ended 2009.


Don’t let people park for free

Parking influences the way cities look, and how people travel around them, more powerfully than almost anything else


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