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The parking garage : design and evolution of a modern urban form
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The parking garage : design and evolution of a modern urban form

著者: Shannon Sanders McDonald
出版商: Washington, D.C. : Urban Land Institute, ©2007.
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Examining the parking garage from an architect's perspective, this book chronicles the evolution and future of parking garage innovations - from early elevator and ramp designs through the modern,  再读一些...

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所有的著者/提供者: Shannon Sanders McDonald
ISBN: 9780874209983 0874209986
OCLC号码: 173248948
描述: xi, 312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
内容: Introduction : The parking garage : Design and evolution of a modern urban form --
1. A time of excitement: a new building form : The horse, the car, and the parking garage ; The car, the city, and the parking garage ; Early garages and their sources ; New structures for a new technology ; Parking for a variety of users ; Parking garage design emerges --
2. Early design issues: The utilitarian versus the symbolic view of the car : The elevator garage ; The ramp garage ; The elevator versus the ramp ; The D'Humy ramp garages ; Other ramp designs ; Innovations in ramp design ; Early standardization ; The modern garage emerges ; Post-1950s ramp design ; The ramp garage as a civic presence ; Man, machine, and building --
3. Synergistic land use connections : The showroom connection ; Municipal storage solutions and public parking garages ; The garage and the workplace ; The retail connection ; Residential links ; Hotels, resorts, casinos: and the garage ; New challenges: the airport and the hospital ; Integrated parking solutions --
4. Form and function : Functionality and the early garage ; Lighting, safety, and wayfinding ; Garage technologies ; Heating and ventilation ; Parking spaces and parking methods ; Maintenance ; Construction practices ; The business of parking ; Changing functionality --
5. Mechanization: a taste for technology : The beginnings of mechanization: from the 1880s to 1930 ; Mechanization from 1930 to 1950 ; Mechanization from 1950 to 1990 ; Mechanization today ; The future of mechanized parking --
6. Exploring structure and materials: engineering the garage : Fire safety and structural requirements ; Early garage construction ; Developments in concrete ; Steel in parking garage design ; Unit, prefab, and demountable parking garage construction ; Underground garages ; Materials and methods. 7. Man, machine, and movement: reading the parking garage : Why explore the garage as a building type? ; The expression of movement is key ; Man, machine, and movement ; Function for both humans and machines ; The garage as a connective building type ; The garage as landmark --
8. The aesthetics of the parking garage : The garage in the midst of aesthetic change ; Early garage architecture ; The Beaux-Arts facility: part of an aesthetic whole ; The garage and the modernist aesthetic ; Yesterday's aesthetic approaches: today's best practices ; Art in the parking garage ; Preserving the urban fabric ; A source of aesthetic innovation --
9. Parking in the context of urban planning : The city comes to a standstill ; Early regulatory efforts ; Roads, mass transit, and the first multimodal hubs ; Parking as a municipal problem ; Cities, suburbia, and parking ; Two parking philosophies ; Multilevel solutions ; Urban and suburban revitalization ; Modern regulatory efforts ; Site and size in modern garage design ; The parking facility as a civic building ; Around and around we go --
10. An evolving building type : It all started in a garage ; What makes a great parking place? Sustainability ; New links between parking and the community ; Improving the pedestrian experience ; Unique visions ; Transformations in movement ; A holistic approach ; Visions within reach ; Gateway to the future: 21st-century transformations.
责任: Shannon Sanders McDonald.
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