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the desert between where you are and where you meant to be.
means a paved lot designed to store cars, and quietly, the humans who drive them.
from emerged with mass car ownership in early 1900s america, exploding after wwii when suburbs and shopping centers needed somewhere to put all those new automobiles.
heat islandasphalt lots can run 50-90 degrees hotter than air.
land usesome us cities devote more land to parking than housing.
ratio rulemany zoning codes once required more parking spots than seats.
business slangput on the back burner, unofficially, means tabled indefinitely.
for instance
woodfield mall lot — illinois megalot with over 7,400 spaces.
houston astrodome lot — 1965 stadium built parking for 30,000 cars around it.
disneyland lot — anaheim resort parking structure holds over 10,000 vehicles.