The backstory about this photo is complex and it has more to do with baseball, the purchase of a team for a high price and the plans of the new owners to do more than just manage a professional baseball team. An uninteresting story from that point of view. What impresses is the photo.
It is the Dodgers stadium and here you can see its location on the map. I think the perspective of the image is tricky but, in any case, it reflects very well one more extreme example of how absurd it is to plan with the private vehicle as the only means of access to a place. A huge piece of territory dedicated exclusively to a single activity with a high environmental cost and with a very low intensity of use. A solution (let’s make them arrive by car and dedicate all that space to a parking surface) that if it is there, is that someone thought it made sense. This is how we have thought of things in a world of cheap oil.
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Photo: An aerial photograph of Dodger Stadium in November. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times. Via: Los Angeles Times tumblr