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Don’t forget how much space is taken up by car parks

• ryanmercer 7y ago
  As someone that will only have taken his car away from him by prying the keys out of his cold dead hands, car parks really are a sad sad thing, all of that acreage wasted on tarmac that could be community gardens or even just pleasing green grass and local wildflowers.
  • smileysteve 7y ago
    Or even more housing, which would in turn often reduce pricing and then commutes. This even applies to the "some of us want a yard" rebuke of suburbanites. Houses nearer cities can have more land if there isn't an 8 lane highway.
    • zeristor 7y ago
      Increased urban density helps areas reach a criticality, denser accomodation cheaper to service, the trick is as ever to find the optimum balancing point. Green spaces aren't to be sniffed at though, even for hayfever suffers.
    • ryanmercer 7y ago
      > "some of us want a yard" I was more speaking to the, every acre of land we pave over is one less acre sequestering carbon and ensuring biodiversity... "Green spaces" also have psychological and physiological benefits.