Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universität München. / "FGV-TUM." Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135).

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Also available in print.

The development of the car transport has contributed to better mobility and also to more traffic on roads and more on-street parking. Governments reacted to this by creating a state regulation specifically the requirement of a minimum number of parking spaces to each new building. This policy may have some positive effects such as improving traffic flow of public roads and better security, but also brings additional costs for owners of new buildings. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the differences in an approach of Czech municipalities to this regulation and an impact discussion. I have chosen as a method of my research a combination of a controlled interview with representatives of five randomly selected Building Authorities in the Czech Republic and an electronic questionnaire with closed and open questions for the broader sample of municipalities in the Czech Republic. The analysis came to the conclusion that an application form of the minimum parking requirements policy for new buildings may vary significantly for each municipality and some differences exist in costs for owners of family houses because some of them are constrained to build paved and garage parking and the others have only their site next to the house.

Master of Urban Affairs

We have too much parking. The automobile-oriented utopia promised by optimistic modern architects like Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright did not come to pass. Personal motor vehicles have indeed become ubiquitous, but the effect in urban environments, at least has been more tyranny than democracy. Cars have taken over the city. Huge areas of urban land are dedicated almost exclusively to cars, and narrow-minded engineer-driven planning continues to widen streets, raise speed limits, and increase parking space, to the detriment of alternate (and by most metrics superior) methods of transportation, or any other potential use of urban space. Additionally, with technological advances allowing car-sharing and the projected explosion of self-driving cars, parking garages are likely soon to become obsolete. We don't have enough housing. As more people move to cities, vulnerable established communities are displaced, property taxes soar, and city footprints balloon. Increased residential density, through both n construction and infill, can assuage these problems while decreasing the necessity of automobile travel. I will begin my research by analyzing the typology of the American parking garage and its relationship to the urban fabric. This analysis will yield a taxonomy of the formal and material components of parking structures. Many components will be challenges to human habitation; a few will be benefits; all will present opportunities for a symbolically and actively revolutionary form of urban housing. From this taxonomy, I will develop a catalog of strategies for responding to these challenges at least to address them and ideally to reframe them as assets. I will test these strategies by applying them to a local parking garage, adapting it as a multifamily housing complex and alternate transportation hub. These strategies could later be enacted city- and nation-wide to transform a mainstay of stubborn car culture into an urban asset. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

The subject of this thesis is to solve the problem of the lack of the parking places at the city crematorium of the Central Cemetery of Brno. The main task is to deploy the parking lots on the northern and western side of the Central Cemetery. The parking lot on the western side should take into consideration the proposal for a new entrance from this side. This thesis also includes solutions for wheelchair access and for building a new bus stop.

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PARK+Nynäshamn behöver en plats för unga. Nynäshamns kommun spår en starkbefolkningstillväxt och att den grupp i kommunen som växer mest är unga vuxna samtbarnfamiljer. Så för att tillgodose en ung generation behövs en mötesplats som ligger påen central plats i Nynäshamn med goda förutsättningar till kommunikationer. I och medatt Nynäshamn växer, kommer relationen till Stockholm bli ännu viktigare. Pendlandetför arbetande ökar och logistiken behöver bli bättre. Därför har jag kommit fram till attplatsen för mitt projekt ska vara på stationsparkeringen. Den ligger nära Nynäsvägen,färjan, centrum, hamnen, Svandammsparken och pendeltågsstationen.Platsen som den ser ut nu är en parkering på marknivå, jag valde därför att lyfta uppparkeringen och låta den vara istället tillgänglig för fotgängare. Svandammsparken ochstråket vid Ferdinand Bobergs stationshus får en starkare koppling med byggnaden.Även kopplingen mellan pendeln och staden får ett starkare samband.Projektet har från en parkeringshustypologi som grund, med en betongstomme och tt-kassetter som bjälklag. Nynäshamns historia som hamn-/ och industristad gerbyggnaden dess karaktär, en betongstruktur med inslag av stål. Ramperna för bilarnaåterspeglar trapporna som dels är exteriört och interiört. Byggnaden utgår från att hasamma kapacitet som stationsparkeringen redan har, strukturen sätter därför ramarnaför de aktiviteter som ingår i programmet. De aktiviteter jag har valt, med inspirationfrån fryshuset här i Stockholm, är skateboardåkning, klättring, dans och musik. De förstatvå våningarna är tillägnade för aktiviteterna följt av två våningar mestadels parkering.Parkeringen är otempererad men är ändå förberedd med isolering för att kunnaanpassa byggnaden i framtiden. Exempelvis bostäder.Ambitionen är att inte ta bort något på platsen, utan snarare uppgradera parkeringenoch parken. På så sätt får stationsparkeringen en viktigare samband för Nynäshamnsbefolkning, men främst för de unga. En park plus parkering.PARK+ är ett aktivitetshus med fokus på streetkultur integrerat med ett parkeringsgarage. / PARK+ Nynäshamn needs a place for young people. Nynäshamn municipality predict a strong population growth and that the group in the municipality that grows the most are young adults as well families with children. So to cater to a young generation, a meeting place is needed that is located on a central location in Nynäshamn with good conditions for communications. Since that Nynäshamn grows, the relationship with Stockholm will become even more important. The use of commuter train for workers are increasing and logistics need to improve. Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that the location of my project is to be at the station parking lot. It is located near Nynäsvägen, the ferry, the city centre, the harbour, Svandammsparken and the commuter train station. The place that looks now is a parking lot at ground level, so I chose to lift up the car park and allow it to be accessible to pedestrians instead. Svandammsparken and the path by Ferdinand Boberg's station house gets a stronger connection with the building. The connection between the shuttle and the city also gets a stronger connection. The project is based on a parking garage typology, with a concrete frame and a ribbed slab as joists. Nynäshamn's history as a port/and industrial city provides the building its character, a concrete structure with elements of steel. The ramps for the cars reflects the stairs which are partly exterior and interior. The building is based on having the same as the station parking already has, the structure therefore sets the frame capacity for the activities included in the program. The activities I have chosen, with inspiration from fryshuset located in Stockholm, is skateboarding, climbing, dancing and music. The first two floors are dedicated to the activities followed by two floors of mostly parking. The parking lot is unheated but is still prepared with insulation to be able to adapt the building in the future. For example, housing. The ambition is not to remove anything from the site, but rather to upgrade the car park and the park. In this way, the station parking becomes a more important connection for Nynäshamns population, but mainly for the young. A park plus parking. PARK+ is an activity center with a focus on street culture integrated with a parking garage.

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