Turning Parking Lots into Villages

Phil LaCombe, writing for Small Streets, had a great post awhile back about what a parking lot would look like of turned into a village:

If we built a small streets village next to transit station, then we’d have a whole village of people who could use transit for all of their trips longer than a walk or bicycle ride away.

I love these posts that overlay existing great urban places on the aerial image of sprawl. It really gives you a sense of the absurd scale we build at these days.