Alex MacMillan

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parking is the primary determinant of the way the place you live looks, feels, and functions. While there are still some corners of this country where parking is worth fighting for, in most of the nation the fight was over decades ago. Parking is plentiful. The country builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments. More square footage is dedicated to parking each car than to housing each person. It is this sea of parking, in which destinations bob like distant buoys, that renders mass transit, biking, and walking difficult or dangerous.
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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