#greenscreen A map showing
#countries of the world that are smaller than the combined area of every
#parking space in the
#USA. There are 68 countries with less land than
#America's
#parkinglots, including very populous ones like
#Haiti, the
#DominicanRepublic,
#Rwanda,
#Burundi, and economically important
#US allies, like
#Israel,
#Switzerland,
#Taiwan,
#Singapore, the
#Netherlands,
#Belgium, and mainland
#Denmark, among many others. This can largely be blamed on something called "minimum parking requirements," which every
#city has in place thanks to
#zoning, that mandate how much parking must be built to accommodate certain structures. For example, some cities require a new
#Walmart to build a minimum of 800 parking spaces. This creates MASSIVE land waste, as parking lots now cover roughly 1/5 of
#American city centers and
#downtown's. Will we ever be a
#publictransit forward country, or is America doomed to be
#car brained for eternity? Will more countries join this list, or will they slowly fall off? (I predict the former).
#cars #park #highways #urbanplanning #geography #geographyjoe #estonia #maldives #singapore #elsalvador #bahamas #jamaica #fiji #palestine #slovakia #albania #country #map #maps #unitedstatesofamerica #america #carbrain #gasmax