Post #1702426
2023-11-08 17:38 UTC
I was today years old when I learned "parking" literally used to refer to civic green space lining the roads
So every time you say parking you're directly referencing a thing that was lost during the automobile's aggressive and costly takeover of public spaces
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@pleaseclap@urbanists.social 2023-11-08 17:40
"We want more parking for cars" literally, not metaphorically or analogously, translates to: "We want to repurpose more green space for automobiles"
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@pleaseclap@urbanists.social 2023-11-08 18:03
It's like how banana flavored candies are a correct reference to the taste of specific bananas that went extinct and don't exist anymore A parking spot is what that space used to or ought to be, not what it is now