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Simon Henley in The Architecture of Parking, finds beauty in dark garages:

Cars can indeed be lovable but how can anyone love the bleak oil-stained chunk of concrete called a parking garage? One person who does is Simon Henley who writes of their “mysterious inhumane beauty” in “The Architecture of Parking,” a coffee-table history just published by Thames & Hudson. Henley even likes the spookiness that makes garages such iconic (and inexpensive) settings for bombs, murders and rapes in film. In fact, sometimes he sounds like the equivalent of a travel writer giving five stars to the Bates Motel.

The Architecture of Parking by Simon Henley.