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parking craters

parking craters is the plural of parking crater.

Meaning of parking crater

Noun

parking crater (plural parking craters)

  1. (derogatory, urban studies) A large parking lot or set of contiguous parking lots in the middle of a city, forming a pronounced gap in the urban fabric.
    • But the L.A. graphic turns the parking crater into a broader metaphor for the tradeoffs that a car-centric city like Los Angeles has made to accommodate cars. Without all that parking, the map seems to scream at us, look how much more city L.A. could have!2016 January 14, David Z. Morris, “L.A.’s Massive ‘Crater’ Shows Why Parking Is the Biggest Fight in Urban Planning”, in Fortune

Questions about parking craters

What is parking craters the plural of?
Parking craters is the plural of parking crater.

Words near parking craters in the dictionary

  1. parking brake
  2. parking brakes
  3. parking coupon
  4. parking coupons
  5. parking crater
  6. parking craters
  7. parking disc
  8. parking discs
  9. parking disk
  10. parking disks
  11. parking garage

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