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Parking Infrastructure: A Constraint On Or Opportunity For Urban Redevelopment?, Mikhail Chester
Parking Infrastructure: A Constraint On Or Opportunity For Urban Redevelopment?, Mikhail Chester
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Many cities have adopted minimum parking requirements, but we have relatively poor information about how parking infrastructure has grown.
In this research, using building and roadway growth models, we estimate how parking has grown in Los Angeles County from 1900 to 2010, and how parking infrastructure evolves, affects urban form, and relates to changes in automobile travel.
We find that since 1975, the ratio of residential offstreet parking spaces to automobiles in Los Angeles County is close to 1.0 and the greatest density of parking spaces is in the urban core. Most new growth in parking occurs outside of the …