ABSTRACT
‘Rethinking Parking: Planning and Urban Design Perspectives’ offers a fresh view of parking, one that shifts from the ‘me, here, now’ of the driver's seat to locate parking as a broader, more complex, and enabling urban planning and design issue. The introduction provides an overview of the book with a brief explanation of the five intersecting perspectives: Place, Politics, Policy, Price, and Professional Practice. Ten case studies are then flagged to illustrate key parking issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities. The Introduction outlines some of the terminology used in the book with expanded ideas about definitions of ‘place’, ‘access’, and ‘transit-oriented development. Finally, this section flags the future of parking and the need for future research on urban parking, place, and access.
