Jeez, well, there are SO GODDAMN MANY parking lots, I think that we could have a little bit of everything: housing, gardens, small businesses, parks, nature, et cetera. My answer is, then, “whatever the local community currently lacks.”
This is what land use planning is in /c/reclamation@slrpnk.net is about. Consultation ins an integral part of deciding what to do with a development after it’s finished. Not all land uses necessarily need to support wildlife habitat or ecosystem redevelopment.
Oak, burch and hazel groves. No other reason than those are my favourite trees.
I never understood the huge parking lots in the malls near where I grew up. I always thought “why not put in a garage?” It would use a 1/4 of the ground space and keep the same amount of parking and would leave room for more stores. But I like the idea of wildlife sanctuaries/parks replacing parking lots more than stores.
Parking garages are expensive compared to lots.
The mall probably also is in bumfuck nowhwre, meaning Therese bear unlimited space for other shops and their own parking lots
Definitely more expensive to build but I think most malls could get away with charging a small fee for parking. The amount of people who are addicted to shopping , it would pay for itself in no time.
Then they’d take the parking lot spaces from another buissenes next to the mall.
Parking garages are only worth it in high density spaces like middle of the City. But most malls and Walmarts aren’t in the middle of the City, they’re someplace outside where there’s enough space for as many parking lots as you want
Paradise. Put it back where it was.
I’d rather delete them than replace them. Move everything closer together again. But you can’t reverse time, so homes and parks are probably the best options. Businesses, museums… schools if feasible.
God I would love to see a network of tiny walkable neighborhoods connected by reliable public transit in place of the fields of asphalt we have now
I saw a video about a development in Tempe, Arizona, along the Phoenix LRT that claims to be the first planned car-free development in America. It has narrow, winding pedestrian streets between buildings, zero parking, and buildings built in a more desert vernacular style. I’d love to see more things like that.
There’s also the superblock concept, as best exemplified by Barcelona, which sounds very similar to what you’re describing.
Commie blocks are pretty good, actually
Why superblocks are peak urbanism
from Adam Something on youtube
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