The elephant in the planning scheme: how cities still work around the dominance of parking space
- Written by Elizabeth Taylor, Vice Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
All that land set aside for parking is also an opportunity to ask what the real value of parking space is.Tequast/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Car parking is expected but often unnoticed, taking up surprisingly large proportions of city space. A parking bay occupies at least 13 square metres – some codes specify up to 30 square metres...