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City planners are questioning the point of parking garages

  • Written by Kevin J. Krizek, Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder
City planners are questioning the point of parking garagesThe typical car is parked 95% of the time.Nastco/iStock via Getty Images

For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better.

As a result, cities were built up in ways that devoted valuable space to storing cars, did little to accommodate people who don’t own cars and forced...

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