Parking Spaces: A Design, Implementation, and Use Manual for Architects, Planners, and Engineers

by Mark C. Childs

From outdoor theaters and festival fairgrounds to scenic gardens, outdoor galleries, and historical commemoration parks, urban designer Mark Childs offers professionals a creative and practical approach to designing multipurpose parking lots for the community. Filled with guidelines for analyzing demand while addressing location issues, safety, convenience, and environmental concerns, the author provides a rich variety of ideas and inspiration for ingenious multifunction features in parking facilities.

289 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

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M.C. Childs’ award-winning urban design books include The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs (UNM Press 2016), Urban Composition (Princeton Architectural Press 2012), Squares: A Public Space Design Guide (UNM Press 2004). He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and interim dean of architecture at the University of New Mexico. He lectures internationally on story and placemaking, public art and public spaces, and context analysis.

His poetry has recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Focus, Liminality and many others. He was a member of M.I.T.’s International Tiddlywinks Team.