Are We There Yet? · Section 7

Where the Sidewalk Starts

The strip of ground nobody looks at. It starts in Pompeii, where raised stones let a Roman cross without wading through sewage, and asks who the space between building and road is for. America answered with a billion parking spaces, three per person: a Detroit movie palace now full of cars, suburbs where the garage door replaced the front porch, Los Angeles turning twelve acres of it back into a park.

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