[Ebbc-Talk] Bicycle Culture by Design: Parking The Bull - The Price of Copenhagen Car Parking Copenhagenize.com

> We have a choice. It's an actual choice. Do we want to live by a park or by a parking lot?
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> Judging from real estate prices, most of us prefer the first choice. We have, however, such a counterproductive urban model of society that we end up choosing the latter. Living in a parking lot. Sure, that's better than living in a sewer, but perhaps it's just a matter of time before we have merged our habitat into an integrated housing sewer and parking facility.
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> The increasing number of parking lots and cars and, in the Danish perspective, even more frequent storms with wild amounts of precipitation - like we've seen the past few years - may well ensure our housing in cities becomes more integrated with our sewage system...
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> Although there are exceptions. Singapore, for example, has had a cap on the total number of cars in the country for decades. Even Boston, of all places, capped the total number of parking spaces in the inner city in 1978 in order to combat congestion. Seattle allowed developers to manage their need for on-site parking on their own. San Francisco has started implementing market pricing on curbside parking spots. These are great examples, but they are, unfortunately, rather rare.
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> http://www.copenhagenize.com/2012/11/parking-bull-price-of-copenhagen-car.html

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