Multistorey car park

As automobiles made their way into the world’s cities in the first half of the 20th century, so too did the need to put them somewhere. City streets were not yet geared for parking and, with their open tops and leather upholstery, yesterday’s cars were much more vulnerable to the elements than today’s. So early motorists needed somewhere undercover to store them. Many early cars spent their idle hours in the horse stables still in common use in cities at the time, or in garages and clubs.

In London in 1901, the City