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Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2004. 293 pp., graphs, maps, figures, photographs, tables, notes, index. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8139-2266-6).
John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle present an insightful analysis of perhaps the most obvious consequence of the age of automobility-the need for parking and, therefore, parking space. In a thought provoking fashion, the authors carefully outline the history of parking from its early days in the beginning of the twentieth century until today, and how this rather mundane necessity has transformed America's urban landscapes. The reader will enjoy the refreshing style in which the authors explore the economic, social, and political challenges of providing parking space to an ever-increasing armada of automobiles, and they will be surprised to learn just how much the question of parking is intertwined with a variety of facets of our urban lives.
In Part 1 (Chapters 1-3), the authors trace the evolution of a new urban...