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Category : Parking lots
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The automobile has an important role to play in the urban transportation system. As a result, parking is an essential piece of infrastructure in the built environment. Yet, cities are continually challenged to find ways of integrating parking into their fabric that are efficient, compact, attractive and ecologically sensitive. A key reason for this is that structured parking and/or underground parking is extremely expensive to construct and maintain and as a result large areas of surface parking prevail. ... Therefore, this research aims to not only outline best practice strategies to attract high density parking options that could facilitate office growth, but also provides an overview on how these strategies could be optimally applied in a range of urban contexts (established downtowns, emerging downtowns, office parks and individual developments). This research also aims to illustrate the role and influence individual stakeholders have in addressing this challenge (municipalities, private developers, tenants and employees). The strategies contained in this report are most powerful when combined, so case studies have also been included to provide insight on how these strategies can be effectively integrated and implemented on the ground.