The map includes surface parking and above ground parking structures which are marked on OpenStreetMap and/or visible in Google Maps imagery. It does not include street parking, underground parking, and podium parking (parking lots that take up only the first several floors of a building).
The parking score measures how a city’s parking lot land use compares to other cities with similar metropolitan area populations.
A low parking score is good and means that the city devotes less land in its central neighborhoods to parking than the average. Conversely, a high score means that more land is dedicated to parking compared to the average for a city of that size.
This scoring system was created to evaluate cities on an equal basis and should not be used outside of this context.
“Central city” is a term invented for this map to encompass the densest, most centrally located, and most valuable real estate in a metropolitan area. It is a blanket term for a city’s central business district, downtown, financial district, or adjacent connecting neighborhoods of interest.
For example, New Orleans’s Central Business District seamlessly connects with the World Renowned French Quarter Neighborhood. These areas were combined into the Central City of New Orleans.
For details on each city boundary, see this detailed methodology .
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This map was developed by Thomas Carpenito with the assistance of Eric Arellano , Tung Lin , Geocadder , David Hunt , Ellen Schwartz , Tony Jordan , Pamela Barone , Nathan Wyand , and Justin Sawyer . The map data come from OpenStreetMap . The map is built using Leaflet . The map tiles are developed by Stadia Maps , Stamen Design , OpenMapTiles , and Google Maps.
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26% of the central city is off-street parking
