They are coming for your parking spot HotAir

It wasn t always thus. For decades cities were designed around cars, as anyone who lives outside a very dense urban area knows. Suburbs exist because of cars. Single-family homes for the middle class do too. Before cars you had to walk or ride a horse; after, all that space around cities became usable as living space. It was nirvana for the average family and still is for many of us.

Urban planners often speak as if there were no roads before cars, which is absurd. By their telling, everybody used a sidewalk or took a train to get around, and the car ruined everything. In their world, you should live in a 15-minute city where you can walk anywhere, which is another way of saying you should live in an urban high-rise building.

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I remember 20 some years ago, we were taking a visiting philosophy & law professor out to dinner. Somebody chose a popular place in Old Town, San Diego. Time was set at 7 or so. Our guest was a good 30 minutes late, past just fashionably late. When he finally arrived he was distraught, almost in tears. Visibly angry. He could not find a parking place, not anywhere. This was not good, for him. He had failed the first test: not to freak out over tough parking. Also, he obviously had bad parking karma. Next thing, a notoriously parsniperous (i.e., cheap) colleague of mine took him out to lunch. At a fast food place. The candidate was outraged. He did not get a third chance. No idea if he was any good as a scholar.