Lots of Parking

Lots of Parking

Author: John A. Jakle

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780813922669

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"Like Jakle and Sculle's earlier works on car culture, Lots of Parking will fascinate professional planners, landscape designers, geographers, environmental historians, and interested citizens alike."--BOOK JACKET.


Parking Lot Birding

Parking Lot Birding

Author: Jennifer L. Bristol

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 162349852X

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Texas boasts greater bird diversity than almost any state, with more than six hundred species living in or passing through during spring and fall migrations. Jennifer L. Bristol’s Parking Lot Birding speaks to people who would love to observe a wide variety of birds in easy access locations that don’t require arduous hikes or a degree in ornithology. As she explains, “I have personally trudged down hundreds of miles of trails in Texas, loaded down with gear, searching for birds, only to return to the parking lot to find what I was looking for.” Drawing on her experience as a former park ranger and lifelong nature enthusiast, Bristol explores ninety birding locations that are open to the public and accessible regardless of ability or mobility. Divided by geography, with each of the nine sections centered on a large urban area or defined ecoregion, Parking Lot Birding: A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas will take readers to birds in locales from the busy heart of Dallas to the remote Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge in the plains north of Lubbock. Each birding stop includes the name and address of a specific birding location, number of species that have been recorded, and types of birding amenities offered. Locational accounts end with a “Feather Fact” that provides interesting and relevant details about selected birds in a particular region. You never know what you might see when on the beaten path, especially in a state as big and ecologically diverse as Texas. So grab your binoculars and let’s go birding!


High Cost of Free Parking

High Cost of Free Parking

Author: Donald Shoup

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 1351178679

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Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion, but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. The author proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking.


A Guide to Parking

A Guide to Parking

Author: International Parking Institute

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0429947852

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If you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a metropolitan community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you’ve thought about. Because parking has such a huge effect on what happens in cities and towns and how the greater transportation system functions, decision-makers are beginning to realize that it’s critical to employ parking expertise at the beginning of the planning process. Designing and implementing an effective, professionally managed parking strategy can mean the difference between frustrating and costly traffic congestion and efficient, time-saving traffic flow. A Guide to Parking provides information on the current state of parking, providing professionals and students with an overview on major areas of parking and the transportation and mobility industry, punctuated by brief program examples.


Parking and the City

Parking and the City

Author: Donald Shoup

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-11

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1351019643

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Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage sprawl, degrade urban design, prohibit walkability, damage the economy, raise housing costs, and penalize people who cannot afford or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative thinking, Shoup recommended three parking reforms: (1) remove off-street parking requirements, (2) charge the right prices for on-street parking, and (3) spend the meter revenue to improve public services on the metered streets. Parking and the City reports on the progress that cities have made in adopting these three reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence that Shoup’s policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic but instead are practical and realistic. The good news about our decades of bad planning for parking is that the damage we have done will be far cheaper to repair than to ignore. The 51 chapters by 46 authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good. Read more about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51 by copying the link below into your browser. https://www.routledge.com/posts/13972


Parking Facilities

Parking Facilities

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Special Investigating Subcommittee

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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The Architecture of Parking

The Architecture of Parking

Author: Simon Henley

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500342374

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A comprehensive international survey of one of the most neglected but most important building types of the modern era: the parking garage. This work includes an introduction which sets out the history and architectural significance of these buildings and their relevance.


Passport to Your National Parks

Passport to Your National Parks

Author: Eastern National

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781590911761

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It's here! Now you can stamp your way through the entire National Park System with the newest addition to the Passport To Your National Parks line of products: the Collector's Edition Passport. Beauty and practicality meet artfully in this deluxe version of the popular Passport, taking you above and beyond the original by providing space for Passport stickers and cancellation stamps for every single park, as well as space for extra cancellations. The park sites are color-coded by region, each area featuring a color map that pinpoints park locations. With a spiral binding that makes it easy to lie open flat, a hard cover that ensures durability and longer life, and pages graced with beautiful color photographs, it's the ultimate stamping ground.


Shared Parking (Excel Model Included)

Shared Parking (Excel Model Included)

Author: Mary S. Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874204438

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Avoid unnecessary costs and traffic by accurately estimating the parking requirements for mixed-use projects according to the types of tenants they will attract. Now in its third edition, this authoritative book has been updated throughout by author Mary S. Smith, a ULI member and leading parking expert, in collaboration with parking professionals and developers. It includes many additional land uses and revised parking ratios, and addresses trends such as increased use of ride sharing services and scooters. The Excel model version lets you plug in your project's land uses and calculates the number of parking spaces needed. This book is essential for developers, planners, government agencies, consultants, and engineers. The book is also available separately (ISBN 9780874204278).


The Quirky World of Parking

The Quirky World of Parking

Author: Larry Cohen

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-20

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Interested in learning about a business that many people love to hate? Then go on the life journey of a 40-year veteran of the parking business who shares the many highs and lows in this quirky profession that we all deal with everyday. Larry J. Cohen, CAPP will provide you with a parking primer, interlaced with crazy stories that will leave you wanting more. Cohen's been responsible for managing parking at universities, hospitals, and a municipality, including managing parking during the inauguration of Presidents Bush and Obama in Washington D.C.Catch a glimpse as he takes you behind the scenes of running a parking program, deals with the politics of parking, and answers such burning questions as "can you get out of paying a parking ticket?"