Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture

Environmental History;  April 1, 2005 ;     591 words ...Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. By John A. Jakle and Keith...for his success. In Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture...transformation. In Lots of Parking the authors (a cultural geographer...were most disruptive. Curb parking, open lots, and ...

Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture.(Book Review)

Journal of Cultural Geography;  September 22, 2005 ;     670 words ...Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. By John A. Jakle and...preface in Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car...this is a book about parking and ... its impacts...quickly cataloged some of parking's negative impacts...

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle: Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car...

History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2005 ;     452 words ......Keith A. Sculle Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture Charlottesville: University...rather than on what was left: parking lots. This imaginative and...infrastructure. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture is divided into three parts...involved carving out on-street ...

`Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture' and `20th-Century...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Marta Salij _ Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture, by John A. Jakle and Keith...Well, every car needs a parking space at home. It needs a...of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture, by geographer John A. Jakle...how downtowns have to have parking _ but ...

America's car culture is running out of gas

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  June 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......We're not at the end of car culture yet ... that's a few generations...not-quite-hindsight, that the U.S. car culture does not work. Meanwhile, more people are parking the car and hopping on...reasonable objection: "The car culture doesn't work? The car ...

In China, bicycles giving way to rising car culture

The Boston Globe;  November 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the allure and the convenience of the car culture. It is tempting for well-meaning Westerners...expressways. But the rise of China's car culture brings fears about the environmental...China, believes China's late embrace of car culture provides it with an opportunity to do...

Letter: Diana, latest victim of the car culture

The Independent - London;  September 2, 1997 ;     95 words ...Letter: Diana, latest victim of the car culture Sir: Diana may have been indirectly...was much more directly the victim of car culture, a mindset which in this case made someone...unwanted attention. Some voices in the anti-car-culture lobby are calling for mandatory speed...

'Car Culture' exhibit rolls into Cultural Center

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 9, 2006 ;     186 words ......love affair and the contributions Chicago has made to the car culture of the nation. Allstate Insurance Company is presenting Chicago Car Culture, as part of its 75th anniversary celebration. The exhibit...Affairs. The first motorized police wagon, the first high-rise parking garage, the ...

Young people, dangerous driving and car culture.(Report)

Youth Studies Australia;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......associated with hooning and other aspects of car culture, and also explores the purposes that...relationship between young people and car culture is a complex one and forms an interesting...broader sociological processes linked to car culture generally. Young people (18-25) are...

CAMPUS PROPOSAL MAY COLLIDE WITH 'CAR CULTURE'

Post-Tribune (IN);  November 1, 1992 ;     365 words ......up against a pretty sizeable roadblock. It's called the "car culture." IU Transportation Director George Smerk says there must...fee to cover the free use of university and city buses, parking lots and bicycle registration during the school year. "Everybody...anticipates resistance. "What it's up ...

IU PROPOSAL COULD COLLIDE WITH 'CAR CULTURE'

Post-Tribune (IN);  October 29, 1992 ;     373 words ......up against a pretty sizeable roadblock. It's called the "car culture." IU Transportation Director George Smerk says there must...fee to cover the free use of university and city buses, parking lots and bicycle registration during the school year. "Everybody...anticipates resistance. "What it's up ...

'Auto Show' Takes on New Meaning: Onview.com Curates 'Car Culture: The...

PR Newswire;  April 20, 2000 ;     624 words ......site, has curated an exhibition called Car Culture: The Automobile and Photography and...for cars, so we put the two together. Car Culture will include over 40 works spanning...world-famous Howard Greenberg Gallery, curated Car Culture with an eye towards both novice and...

Self-styled ride puts car culture to shame.

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA);  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......thudding on its stereo. Motors take a back seat in modern car culture to wheel covers, whale tails and decorative lighting, which...Import automobiles were as natural a choice for modern teenage car culture as the Model T was for teenagers in the 1950s. They're what...

Bicyclist delivers message about car culture

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Bicyclist delivers message about car culture By JENNIFER WEINER Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday, April 12...him into a sort of revolutionary, with strong beliefs about car culture and what it is doing to cities -- and to people's souls...

Putting the brake on car culture

The Sunday Herald;  March 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Frankly, I have to say that Pat Kane's article, Why Our Lethal Car Culture Is Driving Me Insane (Seven Days, March 12) was wildly unrealistic...Thanks very much for Pat Kane's excellent column on the lethal car culture. I, too, do not drive, and have no desire to do so. I am originally...