Rethinking A Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking

by Eran Ben-Joseph

Book Overview

There are an estimated 600,000,000 passenger cars in the world, and that number is increasing every day. So too is Earth's supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint. It's official: we have paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In "ReThinking a Lot," Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for parking's future. Parking lots, he writes, are ripe for transformation. After all,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017334
• ISBN13: 9780262017336
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher