Download or read book Parking and Garaging written by Charles Theodore McGavin and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book Garage written by Kira Obolensky and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated homage to the garage features more than two hundred photographs of more than fifty garages, offering suggestions to improve the style and efficiency of these spaces.
Download or read book The Parking Garage written by Shannon Sanders McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the parking garage from an architect's perspective, this book chronicles the evolution and future of parking garage innovations--from early elevator and ramp designs through the modern, sustainable structures of today. Beautifully illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs, it belongs in every architect's library.
Download or read book Design Live Loads for Parking Garages written by Y. K. Wen and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report to the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report provides a better understanding of parking garage live loads and recommends an appropriate value for design. Based on a load survey conducted in nine parking garages in Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, statistical analyses were carried out of the equivalent uniform distributed loads. These produce the maximum column axial loads and beam midspan moments that the building is expecting to experience during its lifetime. The dynamic amplifications resulting from vehicle motions on the decks and ramps were also investigated, and results suggest a possible reduction of the design live load from the current value of 50 psf, as stipulated in the ASCE-7 and Uniform Building Code, to 40 psf, but with no allowance for reduction according to bay area.
Download or read book Parking written by Stephen G. Ison and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adds to the debate with respect to parking covering the issues of supply and demand, the various policy measures, namely economic, regulatory, regional wide or organisational in addition to carefully selected case studies, along with the future direction of parking policy.
Download or read book Garage written by Olivia Erlanger and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret history of the garage as a space of creativity, from its invention by Frank Lloyd Wright to its use by start-ups and garage bands. Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out of the stable into a room of its own. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (allegedly) started Apple Computer in a garage. Suburban men turned garages into man caves to escape from family life. Nirvana and No Doubt played their first chords as garage bands. What began as an architectural construct became a cultural construct. In this provocative history and deconstruction of an American icon, Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela use the garage as a lens through which to view the advent of suburbia, the myth of the perfect family, and the degradation of the American dream. The stories of what happened in these garages became self-fulfilling prophecies the more they were repeated. Hewlett-Packard was founded in a garage that now bears a plaque: The Birthplace of Silicon Valley. Google followed suit, dreamed up in a Menlo Park garage a few decades later. Also conceived in a garage: the toy company Mattel, creator of Barbie, the postwar, posthuman representation of American women. Garages became guest rooms, game rooms, home gyms, wine cellars, and secret bondage lairs, a no-commute destination for makers and DIYers--surfboard designers, ski makers, pet keepers, flannel-wearing musicians, weed-growing nuns. The garage was an aboveground underground, offering both a safe space for withdrawal and a stage for participation--opportunities for isolation or empowerment.
Download or read book Park It NYC written by Margot J. Tohn and published by Park It Guides. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed with the driver in mind, this unique and handy guidebook is the perfect solution for hassle-free parking. Park It! NYC's comprehensive coverage of the 1,100 off-street parking garages and outdoor lots in Manhattan helps you easily navigate to your perfect garage. Whether cost or location is important to you, this original book is your invaluable resource for choosing among the 100,000 parking spaces. Learn from an insider who has visited each garage four times -- how much to tip, why rates change, and where to find a safe garage. This book is for all the people who have been frustrated by circling the block trying to find a garage or have been unpleasantly surprised at the rate when they retrieved their car. Fully updated listings include valuable information about entrance details, hourly and special rates, hours, capacity, credit cards taken, clearance height, and special discounts.The 26 color maps helps you quickly find garage entrances and exits, gas stations, car washes, and major landmarks.Includes Free Cross-Street Finder, Rate Calculator, fun statistics about NYC parking, and ten pages of insider hints and tips.
Download or read book A Guide to Parking written by International Parking Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Parking Management for Smart Growth written by Richard W. Willson and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to manage on- & off-street parking supplies to achieve Smart Growth. Offers tools & method for strategic parking so that communities can better use parking resources & avoid overbuilding parking. Explores new opportunities for making most from every parking space & new digital parking tools to increase user interaction & satisfaction.
Download or read book High Cost of Free Parking written by Donald Shoup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Parking Structures written by Anthony P. Chrest and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parking Structures provides a single-source reference for parking structure designers, builders, and owners. This third edition is still the only such book. It addresses how to select the best functional and structural designs for a given situation, ensure long-term durability, design for easy maintenance, decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits, design an easily understood wayfinding system, design for ADA compliance, plan for internal auto and pedestrian traffic circulation, select the most effective and energy efficient lighting system, avoid the most common design and construction pitfalls, provide for adequate patron safety and security, carry out needed repairs, and extend the parking structure life. Parking Structures addresses all the major issues related to parking garages. It is an essential reference for parking structure owners, structural engineers, architects, contractors, and other professionals. New in the third edition: This third edition of Parking Structures includes new material on metric dimensions and recommendations for functional design globally, new research on flow capacity and queuing at parking entry/exits, an entirely new chapter on planning for a new parking structure, including cost issues and alternatives to structure construction, pedestrian considerations, safety in parking facilities, plazas above parking structures, an expanded chapter on seismic design, seismic retrofit, life cycle cost analysis, and upgrades to existing structures.
Download or read book Parking Garage Operation written by Robert E. Whiteside and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traffic Design of Parking Garages written by Edmund R. Ricker and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parking written by Joint Committee on Urban Traffic Congestion and Parking and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Carpark for Urban Growth written by Joshua L. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the advent of the automobile, people started moving out to the suburbs to escape the dense and undesirable conditions of city life. The suburbs represented the American Dream; having your own house, white-picket-fenced yard, with a car and a couple of kids. In the United States, individualism and privacy are cherished qualities and the suburbs provide that. One setback to this dream was the nation would be heavily reliant on the personal automobile as a primary source of transportation. People were willing to commute between ten and thirty miles to and from work in order to have that American Dream; sprawl became the method for providing this type of lifestyle. Over the following decades as automotive technology was increasing and the symbolism of the car carried over into garage design; parking garages began to transform. As automobile design improved and vehicles became operable in all weather conditions; garages' concern to protect the automobile from the environment began to decrease, effecting parking garage design. Just as the car was an icon for freedom, people thought that parking garages should operate similarly. As the notion "to come and go" dominated, the concept of waiting for your vehicle via valet or elevator, clashed with that mindset. This led to self-park garages that have been dominant for the past half century. These garages have evolved into banal and sterile archetypes that only serve a function, and not how they interface with the context. The intent of this thesis is to propose a new perspective toward the design of parking garages within the urban context to a capacity that promotes urban growth. This proposal will make assessments on the drawbacks to urban parking garages as well as identify obstacles that impede urban development. The idea is by bringing these drawbacks to the foreground; solutions may be developed in a manner that not only improve qualities to both parking and urban progress, but also allows the parking garage archetype to transform from a space for storing your car into a place that becomes part of the urban experience. The downtown Market District of Roanoke, Virginia will be the backdrop to this thesis.
Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Engineer written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover insider secrets of how America’s transportation system is designed, funded, and built – and how to make it work for your community In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr. delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America’s transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did, and how to modernize transportation to better serve local communities. You’ll discover real-world examples of poor design choices and how those choices have dramatic and tragic effects on the lives of the people who use them. You’ll also find case studies and examples of design improvements that have revitalized communities and improved safety. This important book shows you: The values of the transportation professions, how they are applied in the design process, and how those priorities differ from those of the public. How the standard approach to transportation ensures the maximum amount of traffic congestion possible is created each day, and how to fight that congestion on a budget. Bottom-up techniques for spending less and getting higher returns on transportation projects, all while improving quality of life for residents. Perfect for anyone interested in why transportation systems work – and fail to work – the way they do, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer is a fascinating insider’s peek behind the scenes of America’s transportation systems.
