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Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture (Center Books)
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Paperback. Tracing the history of parking, this study with a range of interesting illustrations, discusses the role of parking in downtown revitalization efforts and, by contrast, its role in the promotion of outlying suburban shopping districts and its incorporation into our neighborhoods and residences. Num Pages: 308 pages, 80 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPC; RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
This lively and exhaustive study traces the history of parking from the curbside to the rise of public and commercial parking lots and garages and the concomitant demolition of the old pedestrian-oriented urban infrastructure. In an accessible style enhanced by a range of interesting and unusual illustrations, Jakle and Sculle discuss the role of parking in downtown revitalization efforts and, by contrast, its role in the promotion of outlying suburban shopping districts and its incorporation into our neighborhoods and residences.
This lively and exhaustive study traces the history of parking from the curbside to the rise of public and commercial parking lots and garages and the concomitant demolition of the old pedestrian-oriented urban infrastructure. In an accessible style enhanced by a range of interesting and unusual illustrations, Jakle and Sculle discuss the role of parking in downtown revitalization efforts and, by contrast, its role in the promotion of outlying suburban shopping districts and its incorporation into our neighborhoods and residences.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925196
SKU
V9780813925196
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-8
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John A. Jakle, Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the author of City Lights: Illuminating the American Night, which won the 2002 J. B. Jackson Award of the Association of American Geographers. Keith A. Sculle is Head of Research and Education for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture (Center Books)
For anyone interested in automobile history and the growth of cities and suburbs, this will be a readable and enjoyable book. It is peppered with facts that will drive friends and relations crazy: the first commercial parking lot appeared in downtown Detroit in 1924; chicago in 1998 issued four million parking tickets generating 175 million dollars in revenue.... There is ... Read more