This is what they plan to do with the parking garages after cars are banned.
Weave your way to the top covered-floor of a parking garage in Midtown Atlanta, shielded from heavy rain and direct sunlight, and you won’t find cars filling the spaces between the yellow lines. Instead, you’ll find three micro homes and a handful of outdoor patios, all part of a micro-housing experiment the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) calls SCADPads.
As city populations boom — the World Health Organization says 6 out of 10 people will live in a city by 2030 — urban planners are pressured to seek out wise housing methods.
“If you look at where parking garages are located in cities, they’re usually centrally located; There are usually many, many floors, so they provide an amazing view,” explains Scott Boylston, SCAD’s program coordinator for design for sustainability. “It really transforms the way we see neighborhoods. The idea that the garage becomes a village — a community.”
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