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A huge increase in the importance of individual transport in the 20th the century concerned practically all Western European countries and the USA. This was favored by changes in urban planning and society, such as the sprawl of cities and the development of the automotive sector. The prices of passenger cars dropped significantly, which in turn meant that the car ceased to be a luxury commodity and became the everyday means of human communication. Most European citizens can afford to buy a used car. The city auth...

Currently the number of cars in Polish cities is growing faster than the number of inhabitants. There are already 878 registered vehicles in the Polish city of Wroc?aw for 1000 inhabitants. Parking problems affect not only the city center, but also more and more its edges. There is a shortage of parking spaces on many new multi-family housing estates. The following questions arise: how does Wroc?aw's parking policy counteract this negative trend? How many parking spaces falls on one dwelling in development investm...