Parking lot madness

[wolverine]

While swaths of parking certainly exist in Detroit, the ability of infilling the core is much easier since it tends to be more of a patchwork. It's not like you are trying to create something out nothing in a 9 block area of asphalt.

San Bernardino certainly dug it's own grave. What a sh*thole. Glad our younger generation today is a much more sensible group of people when it comes to planning compared to folks in the profession decades ago.

Now we are left to clean up their liabilities as strip malls and enclosed shopping centers go vacant.

[DetroitPlanner]

While swaths of parking certainly exist in Detroit, the ability of infilling the core is much easier since it tends to be more of a patchwork. It's not like you are trying to create something out nothing in a 9 block area of asphalt.

20-25 years ago the area around the River North area of Chicago [[Rock and Roll McDonalds and the Hard Rock) in Chicago were also a sea of parking lots. The ecology of cities change over time based upon its economy.

I bet it takes some folks by surprise to see such low density sprawly type estabilshments in the middle of a bustling urban area like it is today, but this area was definitely more like the area behind the Fox then.