Beyond the Blacktop: How Cities Are Reimagining the Modern Parking Lot
For decades, the American landscape has been defined by the ubiquitous, dark, and sweltering asphalt parking lot. Often occupying as much as a quarter of a city’s prime downtown real estate, these vast swaths of impervious surface have long been viewed…
Beyond the Blacktop: The Urban Evolution of the Modern Parking Lot
For decades, the standard for American parking infrastructure was as simple as it was destructive: pour asphalt, paint lines, and forget about it. These vast, heat-absorbing plains of petroleum-based blacktop have become a defining feature of the…
Beyond Blacktop: The Urban Revolution to Cool Cities and Manage Water
In the heart of Hampton Roads, Virginia, the headquarters of the regional planning commission stood for years as a monument to a fading infrastructure philosophy. Its parking lot, a sprawling expanse of weathered, heat-absorbing asphalt, was a classic…
