Innovative Parking Garages
Enlightenment About Parking
Where’s the parking? Parking that’s part of something much, much bigger (Q&A with architect Darius Sollohub)
A Gallery of Garages
In Miami Beach, parking structures fuse flamboyance and function
Willoughby Square
Recreation and greenery above—invisible, automated parking below
Better Parking Garages
Parking garages that inspire love, not loathing—plus a parking lot that generates renewable energy
That's a Garage?
Artists and sculptors turn parking garages into works of art
Green-walled Garages
Green walls bring parking structures to life
Exploring Parking's Potential
When parking is more than parked cars
Parking as Sculpture
Miami’s latest addition to parking evokes sculptural forms
Automated Parking's Potential
Automated parking used to be more prevalent in the US and is slowly making a comeback
Car in 2035
Driverless cars and the future of driving in the ‘burbs; an interview with Kati Rubinyi
Zipcar Dispenser
A giant PEZ dispenser that doles out cars instead of candy
Downtown Parking Management
Backing Into Parking Changes
A parking arrangement that grows the parking supply, reduces crash rates, increases cycling, and is safer for children
EcoParq Ends Parking Chaos
How Mexico City’s residents became enthusiastic about parking meters –yes, parking meters
Flexible Downtown Curb Space
On-street parking one moment, sidewalk cafe tables the next
Land for Living not Parking
Options to share parking spaces and create more living spaces
Parking Reform in Salem
New downtown parking system is a win-win for residents, visitors, commuters, and businesses
Pricing What Was "Free"
Why changing from free to paid parking is good for local businesses and residents
Stroll Through Santa Barbara
Visitors and locals leave cars behind in downtown Santa Barbara
Green Surface Parking
Denmark: Green Cities & Parking
Danish students park in the green
Dia:Beacon Parking
At Dia:Beacon Museum, the parking lot is the lobby
Bluewater Park Parking Orchard
Boating lake, chalk cliffs, and parking lot orchards make this shopping mall anything but ordinary
Columbus Carscape Competition
Parking lot as civic square: a parking lot during the week, but a marketplace on weekends
Rio de Los Angeles Parking
A parking lot that works for the environment
Wild Center Parking
Bringing nature to the parking lot
ReThinking a Lot
Can parking lots be beautiful and sustainable? Transforming America’s 800 million parking spaces
New Uses for Surface Parking
Belmar in Lakewood
This used to be a shopping mall?
Better Blocks in the ’Burbs
Building sand castles on Main Street—and better blocks, too
Columbia Pike
On main street in the D.C. suburbs, dilapidated grocery store and parking lot are reinvented as mixed-use building
Parking Lots as Markets
A parking garage where designers shop
Strip Mall Save Suburbia?
Strip mall architecture re-imagined as a mixed-use building type that can be built on parking lots in commercial areas
Living Market
Retrofitting Long Island downtowns to support social diversity: working and living in the downtown marketplace
Parking Space or Park?
On PARK(ing) Day, parks and people come first
South Miami Hometown
South Miami residents get their Main Street back
Take Two for Big Boxes
Vacant big box stores get a new lease on life: from abandoned Wal-Mart to library, empty mall to school
Sundquist Pavilion and Riley Park
In a suburb where cars rule, town green and farmers market replace strip mall parking lot
Asphalt, Be Gone!
Replacing parking lots with parks—and building community
Developments with Parking Structures
Texas Donut—Stale No More
Walkable apartments with a neighborhood vibe: meet the fresh new flavor of the “Texas Donut”
Benedict Commons
Affordable in-town housing for local workers in Colorado’s Hamptons
Crossings at Gresham Station
Amsterdam—or the Portland suburbs? Apartments by light rail have long waiting list
Del Mar Station
Old train depot restored; new houses and shops built around trolley station
Fair Oaks Court
Affordable housing wins accolades, weaves neighborhood back together
Granada Court
Reminiscent of Mediterranean village, new housing enhances downtown theater district
Mission Meridian Village
South Pasadena development capitalizes on new transit access
Princeton Public Library
In the Jersey suburbs, a library located in the heart of downtown is one of the State’s busiest
Sierra Bonita Housing
Green and gorgeous in West Hollywood
Silver Gardens Apartments
New apartments achieve goal of Albuquerque’s business community—and give a home to low-income residents
The Willits
Empty nesters, retirees, and young entrepreneurs buy downtown condos; one resident traded in his ranch house
Trolley Square
Affordable housing right outside Boston – just a bike ride away
Vista del Arroyo Bungalows
Piece of history, once neglected, is now revived and transformed
Station Center Family Housing
Good for the environment, good for the community, and gorgeous too
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