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Transforming Parking Garages Into Affordable Housing, Tamsan Mora

Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses

For housing in a city to be successful and affordable, there needs to be a density of other residences, workplaces, and services with the infrastructure to reach other neighborhoods and communities. This requires new construction projects to fit within current urban development, where space is limited and expensive, or sprawl out into nearby suburbs, which often lacks the required transit infrastructure. The increasing success of ride-share companies and the recent investment by car companies on developing successful self-driving cars will, in the near future, free up large areas downtown previously used to park personal vehicles. By taking advantage of the …