Parking
Spot-Less: Why Parking Quotas Could Wither Away
This post is the 17th and final post in the series: Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of the Sightline Institute.
October 22, 2013
Parking Break: What Cities Gain When They Lose Parking Quotas
This is the season climax, the culmination, the big reveal.
October 16, 2013
Curb Appeal
Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. This post is #15 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots!
October 4, 2013
Will “Parking Madness” Champion Tulsa Punt on Reforms?
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is Streetsblog's reigning "Parking Madness" champion -- earlier this year readers said its downtown was scarred by the worst parking crater in America. It seemed at the time like Tulsa was going to take action to mend its downtown, but recent news has not been so encouraging. Will Tulsa enact a new surface parking moratorium or continue bulldozing the city to make way for surface parking? It could all rest with an upcoming City Council decision.
September 30, 2013
There’s a (Parking) Place for Us
This post is #14 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline.
September 27, 2013
Park(ing) Day 2013: DC Edition
There's only one reason to be inside on a beautiful day like today, and that is to upload pictures of this beautiful day. More to the point, it's Park(ing) Day, a celebration of better uses for on-street parking spaces. All over this city, and in cities around the country, temporary parklets have sprung up in spaces normally reserved for car storage. They're a real-life illustration of how much more vibrant our cities could be if we let people take up street space instead of cars.
September 20, 2013
Park(ing) Day Scenes From Around the United States
It was only eight years ago that the international movement known as Park(ing) Day got started (in San Francisco or New York, depending on whom you ask). In a short time, this fun way to demonstrate the squandered potential of ordinary parking spaces has become a global phenomenon.
September 20, 2013
Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform
We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning, which we published yesterday. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute -- where he serves as executive director -- about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense.
September 18, 2013
Alan Durning on the “Ruinous, Vicious Circle” of Underpriced Parking
Many people have been inspired by UCLA Professor Donald Shoup’s epic takedown of American parking policy, but few have turned that newfound passion into the kind of scholarship Alan Durning has produced on the issue. The executive director of the Pacific Northwest’s sustainability think tank, Sightline Institute, has now published 12 installments in a series called “Parking? Lots!” -- and there's more coming.
September 17, 2013
Apartment Blockers
Alan Durning is the executive director and founder of Sightline Institute, a think tank on sustainability issues in the Pacific Northwest. This article, originally posted on Sightline's blog, is #9 in their series, "Parking? Lots!"
September 16, 2013