{"id":214948,"date":"2025-10-15T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:02:14","slug":"parking-garages-antithesis-or-opportunity-for-21st-century-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214948\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking Garages: Antithesis or Opportunity for 21st-Century Urbanism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an era of people-centered urban planning<\/a>, 15-minute cities<\/a>, \u201ceyes on the street<\/a>,\u201d and active public spaces, parking garages are often seen as the antithesis of contemporary urban ideals. But that was not always the case. If today they challenge architects and planners to reinvent them in pursuit of more sustainable mobility<\/a> and more human cities<\/a>, in the past they stood as witnesses to a radical transformation in how we move, inhabit, and perceive urban space. Once symbols of modernity, parking garages<\/a> embodied the height of an age when the automobile was seen as a driving force of progress. This shift in meaning reveals them as much more than utilitarian structures \u2014 they are powerful reflections of the evolution of urbanism, technology, and social habits over the past two centuries.<\/p>\n

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Our relationship with the automobile is complex and, in many ways, paradoxical. Even fifty years later, Baudrillard\u2019s observation<\/a> still resonates: the car is an extension of the domestic sphere \u2014 a space where individuals, even far from home, feel protected. This dependence, tied to the car\u2019s image as a symbol of individual freedom, runs through different layers of culture. In the Oscar-winning film Nomadland<\/a>, for example, the vehicle becomes both a home and an emblem of personal emancipation.<\/p>\n

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