The acceptable face of multi-storey car parks?

John Dales
01 May 2008
This is Trinity Square, Gateshead - quite a lot of people know that
This is Trinity Square, Gateshead - quite a lot of people know that
This is Canterbury and there's only the sign to tell you what's there
This is Canterbury and there's only the sign to tell you what's there
This is Liverpool and one of these buildings is a car park - honest!
This is Liverpool and one of these buildings is a car park - honest!

 

The ugliness of multi-storey car parks of the past doesn't mean that their successors can't be acceptable solutions to contemporary parking challenges, says John Dales

You're a big man but you're in bad shape. Now behave yourself. I'm sorry to appear to be so brusque and so personal but I thought the occasion demanded it - the occasion being, of course, the formal ringing of the death knell for the huge Trinity Square multi-storey car park in Gateshead. In case you've still no idea what I'm on...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
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