From the Sightline Institute:
Sightline is putting together a new series about the many ways that parking regulations and mandates can affect the way that cities look, work, and feel. But first we need your help!
All too often, zoning codes force developers to cram a site with extra parking, leading to urban and suburban spaces that work for cars but not for human beings. Some of the results are downright eyesores—and we want to compile a photo essay with the most outrageous examples!
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So please send us your photos of buildings—single-family houses, apartments, and commercial construction—where cars seem more important than the people inside.
Send your submissions in to Serena Larkin, serena@sightline.org. You can also post them to Sightline’s Community Photopool at Flickr here. Make sure to note the photo’s location in your caption as well as any photo credit you’d like us to include.
The question posed is a bit double-barrelled.
The pic above may be ugly from an asthetic perspective, but from a functional perspective, the attached garage is almost certainly more convenient to the people who live there than would be a detached garage off a lane in behind the house.
In that respect, you can point to any condo building that has a port corchere or circular driveway / drop-off as putting the car first – but remember that the car is serving people and ultimately the feature is there for peoples’ convenience.
Does valet parking put the car first or the people first?
So who’s to say whether form or function is more important?