Joni Mitchell's 1970 song "Big Yellow Taxi" contained the line "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" inspired by her first trip to Hawaii.
#pavedparadise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Yellow_Taxi
In #PavedParadise, @henrygrabar reminds us that several ITE leaders have denounced how its parking demand estimates have been used.
“We expected you to be smart!” says one former VP.
“Nobody on the ground knows ITE has changed their tune,” adds Daniel McKenna-Foster.
#pavedparadise #parking #parkingreform #UrbanPlanning #trafficengineering
📷 Tonight I took 60 shots at an abandoned factory, but the results weren't what I expected. Just one shot I likelike, and I posted it —"Offices."
After a break, I took another look and had this thought: "Maybe a pretty picture isn't the goal tonight."
What then?
My new pictures are all shot on sacred #Cherokee land they were driven from, large parts of which are paved over.
I've nicked #JoniMitchell's #PavedParadise in other posts. That's what it is—"America."
#Landback #fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #jonimitchell #cherokee
"In its best moments, driving feels like freedom, but our inability to get around any other way is a kind of prison"
"Parking is a mutant strain of yeast in the dough of architecture, making our designs bigger, uglier, and further apart".
I'm only a couple of pages into this book (a gift from a client who knows me too well!) and it's already throwing up some very quotable passages.
#parking #sustainabletransport #pavedparadise
My 4th of July reading… “Paved Paradise” by Henry Grabar #parking #PavedParadise #planning #UrbanDesign #reading #book #library
#parking #pavedparadise #Planning #urbandesign #reading #book #library
📷 The northeastern sky at sunset from the Circle K parking lot (II), June 11, 2023, 8:09 PM.
#SilentSunday #StreetPhotography #Photography #Sky #Clouds #PavedParadise #FediversalPictures #AltText
#alttext #fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #clouds #Sky #Photography #StreetPhotography #silentsunday
📷 #FediversalPictures is the #hashtag for my photography in the #Fediverse.
Comments are most welcome. Thanks. — Eddie
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The northeastern sky at sunset from the Circle K parking lot, June 11, 2023, 8:26 PM.
#SilentSunday #StreetPhotography #Photography #Sky #Clouds #PavedParadise #FediversalPictures #AltText
#silentsunday #Fediverse #hashtag #alttext #fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #clouds #Sky #Photography #StreetPhotography
📷 Saturday morning in Jesusville is cloudy and cool, 62º and windy. The rain never came overnight, but it's on the way. They say probably an inch with winds up to 30 mph.
#BlackAndWhite #monotone #inverted #edit #streetphotography #photography #sky #clouds #parking #PavedParadise #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #parking #clouds #Sky #Photography #StreetPhotography #edit #inverted #monotone #BlackAndWhite
📷 Self-portrait (II) in the Waffle House parking lot, April 7, 2023, 7:47 AM.
#SilentSunday #SelfPortrait #AutoPortrait #PavedParadise #StreetPhotography #photo #Photography #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #asphalt #FediversalPictures
#silentsunday #fediversalpictures #Asphalt #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #Photography #Photo #StreetPhotography #pavedparadise #autoportrait #selfportrait
📷 Self-portrait in the Waffle House parking lot, April 7, 2023, 7:47 AM.
#SelfPortrait #AutoPortrait #PavedParadise #StreetPhotography #photo #Photography #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #asphalt #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #Asphalt #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #Photography #Photo #StreetPhotography #pavedparadise #autoportrait #selfportrait
📷 Rush hour in #Jesusville, and the rain had begun. April 26, 2023, 4:56 PM.
#roads #traffic #choices #streetphotography #photo #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #brush #pavedparadise #thesouth #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #thesouth #pavedparadise #brush #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #Photo #StreetPhotography #choices #traffic #roads #jesusville
📷 A spot of ground at a subdivision construction site, April 23, 2023, 6:46 AM.
#abstract #streetphotography #photo #abstract #Photography #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #thesouth #pavedparadise #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #thesouth #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #Photography #Photo #StreetPhotography #Abstract
📷 "Stop" | Heavy rain, thunder and lightning this morning at 6:55. Sitting in the #WaffeHouse parking lot sipping coffee, I snapped this through the windshield.
#PavedParadise #streetphotography #photo #inverted #solarized #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #rain #cars #gas #thesouth #morning #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #morning #thesouth #gas #Cars #rain #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #solarized #inverted #Photo #StreetPhotography #pavedparadise #waffehouse
📷 Parked, sipping coffee at 7:28 AM. Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue" was playing on the FM for a series of shots through the windshield.
#SilentSunday #sky #clouds #rain #wx #streetphotography #photo #Photography #fotografie #fotografía #photographie #pavedparadise #thesouth #FediversalPictures #rain
#fediversalpictures #thesouth #pavedparadise #Photographie #fotografia #fotografie #Photography #Photo #StreetPhotography #wx #rain #clouds #Sky #silentsunday
📷 Strip mall parking lot, 6:27 AM, April 8, 2023.
#streetphotography #photo #abstract #Photography #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #thesouth #pavedparadise #jesusville #appalachia #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #appalachia #jesusville #pavedparadise #thesouth #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #Photography #Abstract #Photo #StreetPhotography
📷 Exhibit A: "The Hovering Upside-Down Over The Waffle House Parking Lot Incident," April 7, 2023, 7:10 AM.
#streetphotograhy #photo #Photography #WaffleHouse #Fensterfreitag #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #thesouth #appalachia #asphalt #pavedparadise #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #Asphalt #appalachia #thesouth #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #fensterfreitag #WaffleHouse #Photography #Photo #streetphotograhy
📷 Drove to the market for coffee and snapped a self-portrait on the way out.
#streetphotography #autoportrait #photo #Photography #fotographie #fotografía #photographie #aphalt #pavedparadise #thesouth #FediversalPictures #appalachia #spring #weather
#Weather #Spring #appalachia #fediversalpictures #thesouth #pavedparadise #aphalt #Photographie #fotografia #fotographie #Photography #Photo #autoportrait #StreetPhotography
📷 "Human" vs. "Nature | Looking up from the #WaffleHouse parking lot in #Jesusville, March 7, 2023, 5:40 PM.
#photo #photography #thicktrunktuesday (implied) #thesouth #behindtheredcurtain #pavedparadise #FediversalPictures
#fediversalpictures #pavedparadise #behindtheredcurtain #thesouth #thicktrunktuesday #Photography #Photo #jesusville #WaffleHouse
📷 Moonset, 6:24 AM, March 7, 2023.
#photo #photography #exurbia #thesouth #wafflehouse #quiktrip #pavedparadise #parkinglot #67degrees #spring #blackandwhite
#BlackAndWhite #Spring #67degrees #parkinglot #pavedparadise #QuikTrip #WaffleHouse #thesouth #exurbia #Photography #Photo