And if we are going to think that expansively about how we might use our streetscape, we might go even further, to imagine a few parking
spaces per building permanently turned into «eco-
spaces,» with islands bulging into the streets to
calm traffic, with plantings to absorb rainfall that would
otherwise flow into the sewers and to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, perhaps with small - scale rat - proofed composting receptacles, or igloos for depositing recyclables, or... the mind reels.