When the automobile was first introduced, few Americans
predicted its fundamental impact, not only on how people would
travel, but on the American landscape itself. Instead of reducing
the amount of wheeled transport on public roads, the advent of
mass-produced cars caused congestion, at the curb and in the
right-of-way, from small midwestern farm towns to New York,
Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
"Lots of Parking" examines a neglected aspect of this rise of
the automobile: the impact on America not of cars in motion but of
cars at rest. While most studies have tended to focus on highway
construction and engineering improvements to accommodate increasing
flow and the desire for speed, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle
examine a fundamental feature of the urban, and suburban,
scene--the parking lot. Their lively and exhaustive exploration
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.
Like Jakle and Sculle's earlier works on car culture, Lots of
Parking will delight and fascinate professional planners, landscape
designers, geographers, environmental historians, and interested
citizens alike.
Published in association with the Center for American Places
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