Forty years agone the Los Angeles City Council adopted some of Joni Mitchell's lyrics every bit a mission statement. They made it their intended piece of occupation to 'Pave paradise as well as set upwards a parking lot'. That aim has directly been achieved.
Los Angeles directly has roughly 200 foursquare miles of parking spaces. Shane Phillips estimates that in that location is directly to a greater extent than infinite for each automobile than for each mortal inward Los Angeles county. To tending illustrate the sum of infinite given over to parking cars inward LA Shane has lumped all these parking infinite together to do 1 big imaginary parking space.
This parking infinite is xvi miles inward diameter, You tin encounter how much room all LA's parking spaces get got upwards on Shane's Google Map, Mapped: All 200 Square Miles of Parking inward LA County, As One Giant Parking Lot. The map shows the imaginary parking lot placed on superlative of LA.
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