When McKenna-Foster learned about the ITE’s books on parking, driving, and development in graduate school from his professor Michael Manville, who had trained under Shoup, it blew his mind. These texts were responsible for the look of everything around him. “I’ve always hated these big-box urban hellscapes, and you’re gaining this secret knowledge that shows you, it’s all based on nothing. The ITE is based on junk! This false precision reproduced over and over. You open the hood of the car and it’s this junk engine made of Styrofoam cups and straws.” It was not just that the parking minimums
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