I wished for others to share my epiphany, to recognize the tremendous potential of all the land that lay hidden beneath the chassis of a thousand parked cars. And then the monkey’s paw part: As I began to write this book, the coronavirus pandemic shut down half the world. But for the ambulances, traffic vanished, and the air cleared. Some lucky few had fled to the country, but most urbanites were left with the unsettling experience of an empty city. The cramped feeling of an apartment without public life; the silence of streets without cars. As if someone had pulled the plug from a tub,
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