Despite or perhaps because of its growing ubiquity, parking declined from a major field of research and interest to an unloved backwater. Parking is as absent from the training of architects, planners, and engineers as it is from the culture at large. It’s overlooked even by the governments and institutions that depend on its good order, marooned between the technical domains of transportation and land use. “Like a bastard child that no one wants,” according to one longtime parking executive. The weight we place on good parking in our personal lives is surpassed only by our ignorance of its
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