ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the role of professional practice in shaping urban parking outcomes. Politicians cut ribbons for roads, not car parks, while the role of the parking planner has been described as the 'Cinderella' of the transport planning profession. Because of the importance of the car, the transport planning profession was elevated, effectively subordinating the qualitative/big picture-focused urban planning and design professional practice. There are important lessons for the way all levels of government deals with parking if it intends to play a constructive role into the future. Speaking at a press conference in 1946, he discussed the problems arising from the 'great increase in London traffic since the end of the war'. In 1941, when the National Institute of Transportation Engineers published the first traffic engineering handbook, only nine of its 320 pages were devoted to parking. Modernism has created simplistic professional practice demarcations to deal with complex urban planning issues.
