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Article Excerpt
The Architecture of Parking, Simon
Henley, Thames and Hudson, 181A High
Holborn, London WC1V 7QX, UK,
2007. 256pp, illus., index of architects.
Price 24.95 [pounds sterling] Hbk.
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A common view of parking stations is of ugly buildings that interrupt the urban fabric, and alienate the city from people as much as roadways do. Yet ideas of a ring of car parks 'protecting' the pedestrian environment within a city centre go back at least to Louis Kahn in the post-war period of last century. Although this ideal is seldom realised for whole cities, the car park of a...
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