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Geometry and architecture. The largest part of the book, because this is where parking practice lives: the design vehicle, the stall, the module, the ramp, the column that argues with all of them, and the person walking through the middle of it. Twelve modules from functional design to the building's second life -- including the corpus's canonical drawings, drawn once and embedded everywhere they're needed.
Cars, pedestrians, and structure meet: the conflicts, the survival curve, and the calming set.
Read the module →Where the facility meets the street: placement, queue storage, and the sight triangle.
Read the module →The cheapest parking, done properly: angles, yield, drainage, and the landscaped edge.
Read the module →The ramp family compared, and the slope numbers from comfort floor to the psychological wall.
Read the module →The 85th percentile design vehicle: the one number every dimension traces back to.
Read the module →A post-mortem: the stall drawn for a car the fleet no longer contains.
Read the module →Stall anatomy: length, turnover-adjusted width, and the wall-and-column rule.
Read the module →The module is the molecule: stall, aisle, stall, 60 to 64 feet -- with interlock.
Read the module →Where structure meets geometry: the encroachment budget, curbs, and retiring the wheel stop.
Read the module →Scale, sightlines, LOS, and the 8'4" argument: designing for the person walking.
Read the module →Facade, materials, and placemaking: architecture as a choice with a price.
Read the module →Programming the garage's second life: the five locks and the removable ramp.
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