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人,停车,和城市(英文)
People, Parking, and Cities
Donald Shoup博士,FAICP(美国高级注册规划师),《高成本的免费停车》一书的作者,他阐述了在该书中倡导的一些原则,揭示了以另一种角度看待停车需求。
正文:
The pop culture image of Los Angeles is an ocean of malls, cars,
and exit ramps; of humorless tract homes and isolated individuals
whose only solace is aimless driving on endless freeways. From Joan
Didion to the sierra club, la has been held up as a poster child
of sprawl. This is an arresting and romantic narrative, but also
largely untrue. To the extent that anyone has a definition of sprawl,
it usually revolves around the absence of density, and Los Angeles
has since the 1980s been the densest urbanized area in the United
States. This would make it the least sprawling city in America.
Compared to other US cities, la also does not have inordinately
high rates of automobile ownership.
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