Wastes Of Space

Tom Vanderbilt illustrates his case against too many parking spots by noting that Purdue University researchers found that if "all of the vehicles
in the county were removed from garages, driveways, and all of the
roads and residential streets and they were parked in parking lots at
the same time, there would still be 83,000 unused spaces throughout the
county." Felix Salmon agrees:

For me the biggest and most invidious cost of parking lots is also themost difficult to measure: the way that...