Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Another example of why all major institutions should have to do transportation demand management plans

According to Streetsblog, the new "green" New York Times building didn't open with any accommodations for bicycle parking. See "New York Times Employees Say Renzo Forgot the Bike Parking."
Bicycle parking at the New York Times
Photo from Streetsblog.

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I haven't gotten around to uploading some photos I took of some pages from a 1963 issue of Parking, a trade magazine. Shockingly, concepts that we think of as pioneering today--shared parking in commercial districts--were standard practice in the "Park and Shop" programs organized by parking lot and structure owners in the 1950s and 1960s.

Planning for all mobility modes merely extends this concept.

Then, planning with a priority of reducing the number of single occupant vehicle trips further extends this concept.

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