ValnaoMar 7

Downtown Spokane, Washington. The red areas represent surface parking lots, while the purple ones indicate parking garages

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56435742

Show threadjeffepMar 7
Why the highlighting? Is one more terrible than the other? If so, which one?
Show threadebolapieMar 8
Surface lots are far worse than parking structures. You can put retail at street level with parking structures. You can do a Texas donut, which is still not ideal but is way denser and prettier than surface lots.
Show threadcrystalmerchant
What is a Texas donut
Mar 8 at 5:08amWeb
Show threadSoggyMar 8

They asked, on the internet, when using a search engine is the same amount of work with no waiting.

ericvery.wordpress.com/…/the-texas-doughnut/

The Texas Doughnut

Developers are finding interesting ways to respond to latent demand for walkable neighbourhoods. As a result, the future of cities, at least in the south, may look like a Texas Doughnut. At least u…

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Show threadcrystalmerchantMar 8
Lmao you think I didn’t search, my friend? Maybe I wanted to hear from the person who wrote it, ever think of that?
Show threadMonkderVierteMar 8
Multiply that with view count.
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Show threadebolapieMar 9

A Texas donut is an apartment building that wraps around an attached parking structure. I’ve seen a few different variations but the nicer ones have courtyards between the units and the parking garage that I imagine is more to allow cross breeze than anything else because being inside them would be incredibly claustrophobic. Still a huge waste of space but if you really want your residents to all have cars they kind of make sense because the parking footprint is more or less the same as you would get as if you built a low rise.

You can also bury the cars instead and that works way better for somewhere like downtown Seattle, since real estate is just so mind bogglingly expensive in downtown areas of major cities, but honestly if you’re living in the city it seems like storing the car offsite would make more sense if you really feel like you have to have one that badly.