Podcast - Onsite Parking: The Scourge of America's Commercial Districts
29 March 2006 - 7:00am
- Artist: Planetizen
- Title: Planetizen Podcast 2006-03-31 Mott Smith: Onsite Parking: The Scourge of America's Commercial Districts
- Album: Planetizen Podcast
- Year: 2006
- Length: 9:36 minutes (4.46 MB)
- Format: Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
In this final installment of Planetizen's three part series on parking, Mott Smith, Principal of planning and development firm Civic Enterprise Associates in Los Angeles, analyzes the urban design problems generated by gratuitous "onsite" parking requirements, which ruin street life and force property owners to use their lots inefficiently.
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