As someone that will only have taken his car away from him by prying the keys out of his cold dead hands, car parks really are a sad sad thing, all of that acreage wasted on tarmac that could be community gardens or even just pleasing green grass and local wildflowers.

Or even more housing, which would in turn often reduce pricing and then commutes.

This even applies to the "some of us want a yard" rebuke of suburbanites. Houses nearer cities can have more land if there isn't an 8 lane highway.

> "some of us want a yard"

I was more speaking to the, every acre of land we pave over is one less acre sequestering carbon and ensuring biodiversity...

"Green spaces" also have psychological and physiological benefits.

Increased urban density helps areas reach a criticality, denser accomodation cheaper to service, the trick is as ever to find the optimum balancing point.

Green spaces aren't to be sniffed at though, even for hayfever suffers.