WELCOME TO PARKING PUBLIC
Where shall they park? The answer became clear as more and more
municipalities, from Los Angeles to smaller centers, voted for city-funded
open lots. At mid-decade, Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, told
Colliers magazine that he would like to move the Washington Monument for
more parking lots.
A Brief History
of Parking: The Life and After-life of Paving the Planet, Jane Holtz
Kay, Architecture Magazine, February 2001
About Parking Public
Parking Public is a research initiative documenting
specific histories of public parking development as it relates to the more
general ideology of utopian capitalism.
The Travel Office has been at work studying the changing context of parking
in U.S. cities and towns, producing guided and self-guided tours to better
understand how parking fits into our desires and frustrations for livable
spaces.
Currently, we are looking at the disappearance of surface parking
lots that seeems to be taking place across the country, especially in cities
and towns with urban centers.
To date, we have conducted guided tours in Brooklyn (NY), Champaign (IL), Hollywood (CA) and Downtown Los Angeles. These tours give Parking Public participants up close experiences with the spaces of public parking. Our goal with the tours is to historicize parking within the larger ideology of automobility and what Richard Davies has called an "Age of Asphalt."
Tour Itineraries & Slide Shows
Chicago, IL "Wrigleyville" (2010) Download PDF tour guide booklet
Brooklyn, NY (2006)
Champaign, Illinois (2007)
Hollywood, CA (2007)
Downtown Los Angeles (2005)
Photo Archive (Flickr)
Video Tours
Parking Public: A Tour Into the Storage of Utopia video [on archive.org]
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