# Look what fits in a parking lot

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2019-10-12

amsterdam, brent-toderian, dodger-stadium, los-angeles, mobility, parking, parking-lot, shibuya, surface-parking, urban, urbanism, venice

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[Brent Toderian](https://twitter.com/BrentToderian) likes to start Twitter hashtags that revolve around city building. One of his most recent is [#LookWhatFitsInAParkingLot](https://twitter.com/hashtag/LookWhatFitsInAParkingLot?src=hashtag_click). For this one, he asked the Twittersphere to consider the things we love in cities that might fit inside a parking lot.

Here is one of the best responses -- [Dodger Stadium edition](https://twitter.com/pw3n/status/1176349879154556931?s=20):

https://twitter.com/pw3n/status/1176349879154556931?s=20

Venice, Amsterdam, and Shibuya (Tokyo) were all overlaid -- at the same scale -- on the surface parking surrounding Dodger Stadium. There are [about 16,000 parking spaces](https://stadiumparkingguides.com/dodger-stadium-parking/), which actually take up more land than the stadium itself.

To be fair, I bet if you overlaid parts of Los Angeles on this same parking, it would look similarly astounding. But that shouldn't change what you take away from this post: parking is very land consumptive.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/look-what-fits-in-a-parking-lot)*