Tuesdays at APA Man, Machine, and Movement: The Parking Garage Tuesday, May 6, 2008 • 5:00 p.m. Since the late 1890s, parking garages have had a key role in shaping urban
form. In this time, changes in transportation and structure technology have
transformed our physical landscape. Through the lens of movement devices, and
how people move through space, this talk discussed the evolution of ramps,
mechanization, and elevators in parking garages as well as how bicycles, electric
vehicles, and advanced forms of transit have impacted structured parking. Shannon
Sanders McDonald used the parking garage to look at the synergy between
architects, urban planners, environmentalists, and transportation planners
as they grapple with integrating their various disciplines to create new ideas
and solutions for man and machine in the 21st century. CM |
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 Shannon
Sanders McDonald is a practicing architect licensed in Georgia
and Illinois, as well as a frequent speaker on architecture, parking,
transportation, and related issues as well as a recent author of The
Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form,
published by the Urban Land Institute.
She is a 1992 graduate of the Yale
School of Architecture, where she was awarded a Business and Professional
Women's Scholarship. In 1994–1995, McDonald worked with Carol Ross Barney
in designing the award-winning Little Village Academy, in Chicago. She
has also worked on many other public and transportation-related projects
and with architecture students in universities across the country integrating
architecture, planning, transportation, sustainability, and design creating
new ideas for the future. |
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