What can a parking lot become? (Tongva Park in Santa Monica)
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What can a parking lot become? (Tongva Park in Santa Monica)
Do you have any examples of higher purpose from a former parking lot? Or any ideas of what a parking lot could become?
Here is an award winning design for an urban oasis in a former parking lot:
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Here is an award winning design for an urban oasis in a former parking lot:
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I hate parking structures a lot less when the top level is green.
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That's an amazing place. Very new. It wasn't there two years ago when I stayed at the hostel there. There's a lot going on. A bike store and bike rental place are just to the north of it. The street to the north is the western end of Route 66, A freeway goes under the park, in one direction it becomes the Pacific Coast Highway and in the other it becomes Interstate 10 running all the way to Jacksonville. Close by is Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade - a pedestrian shopping street, and you can see the Santa Monica Pier. The pier is the north end of a bike path that goes down the L.A. coast.
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That's an amazing place. Very new. It wasn't there two years ago when I stayed at the hostel there. There's a lot going on. A bike store and bike rental place are just to the north of it. The street to the north is the western end of Route 66, A freeway goes under the park, in one direction it becomes the Pacific Coast Highway and in the other it becomes Interstate 10 running all the way to Jacksonville. Close by is Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade - a pedestrian shopping street, and you can see the Santa Monica Pier. The pier is the north end of a bike path that goes down the L.A. coast.
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This reminds me of the parking structure in my city's central park downtown. It isn't green on top, but instead has public tennis courts on the roof. The parking is just a single layer, partially underground, so you mostly see the tennis courts. I think this was a brilliant way to get double use from one piece of land. I'm not certain how old this structure is, but it's obviously not new.
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When I lived in Houston, TX, a guy bought property that had an old parking lot, put raised beds on it, and created a fruit and vegetable garden.
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Santa Monica is gentrified to all hell. Lots of cyclists and busses there though. Still a ton of cars too.
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