Parking Madness 2015
How to Repair a Parking Crater in Three Steps
[Before we started up the bracket for this year's Parking Madness tournament, I got in touch with Donald Shoup, who literally wrote the book on parking reform, and asked him to pick the worst parking crater in the field of 16. Here's his response, packaged with some advice for cities that have a parking crater problem. -- Angie Schmitt]
April 8, 2015
Camden’s Waterfront Abyss Wins the 2015 Golden Crater
From the Texas Panhandle to the Bay Area, from the shores of the Detroit River to the Gulf Coast of Florida -- America's cities are a pockmarked mess, blighted by asphalt parking expanses you can practically see from space.
April 7, 2015
The 2015 Parking Madness Championship! Camden vs. Parkersburg
Welcome to the World Series of asphalt. The Super Bowl of lifeless city blocks. Today is the Parking Madness championship -- the culmination of our 16-city tournament showcasing the worst parking craters to scar America's downtowns.
April 6, 2015
Parking Madness Final Four: Syracuse vs. Parkersburg
Only the ugliest, most wasteful parking craters are still in the running, as the Parking Madness Final Four winnows down to two finalists after this match. The winner will take on Camden, which narrowly defeated Fort Worth, for a chance at the Golden Crater, eternal shame, and, we hope, some good awareness-raising opportunities for local advocates.
April 1, 2015
Parking Madness Final Four: Camden vs. Fort Worth
We started this Parking Madness tournament with 16 soulless parking craters from California to New Jersey, and you've narrowed it down to the Final Four: Camden, Fort Worth, Syracuse, and the very aptly-named Parkersburg, West Virginia.
March 31, 2015
Parking Madness Elite Eight: Parkersburg vs. Amarillo
There's just one spot left in the Final Four of Parking Madness, and it's going either to Parkersburg, West Virginia, or Amarillo, Texas.
March 30, 2015
Parking Madness 2015 Elite Eight: Tampa vs. Fort Worth
It's almost a shame that these two titans are meeting in the second round of the Parking Madness tournament, because both Tampa and Fort Worth look like they have champion potential.
March 27, 2015
Parking Madness 2015 Elite Eight: Newport News vs. Syracuse
Yesterday, Camden knocked off Detroit in Parking Madness, giving the Garden State the first spot in our Final Four.
March 26, 2015
Parking Madness 2015 Elite Eight: Detroit vs. Camden
Today it's on to round two in Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American town. Our first Elite Eight matchup features two cities struggling to rebuild in the wake of some serious urban disinvestment, and these parking craters certainly aren't helping. It's Camden vs. Detroit.
March 25, 2015
Parking Madness 2015: Fort Worth vs. Boise
There's just one spot remaining in the Elite Eight of this year's Parking Madness bracket. And it's either going to Fort Worth or Boise. Without further ado, here are the final parking craters in the 2015 tournament.
March 23, 2015