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Whenever I think of suburbia, I think of larger homes, malls, and highways. It makes sense that suburbia got parking lots while downtowns got parking garages ..

Whenever I think of suburbia, I think of larger homes, malls, and highways. It makes sense that suburbia got parking lots while downtowns got parking garages ... but I had never really given the parking lot much thought until this article

throw0101a 6y ago
> while downtowns got parking garages Let me introduce you to pre-condo boom downtown Toronto, Canada: * https://www.blogto.com/city/2011/10/that_time_when_toronto_was_a_city_of_parking_lots/ https://www.blogto.com/city/2011/10/that_time_when_toronto_w... The rise of lots occurred after the construction of the downtown Gardner highway: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner_Expressway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner_Expressway Nowadays land is too valuable to be flat, and so most/all parking lots have been turned into towers (condo(minium) and commercial): * http://www.mapto.ca/maps/parkinglots http://www.mapto.ca/maps/parkinglots