Devoting this much land to parking makes housing more expensive and hurts the environment.
Removing some of our parking could boost our quality of life, according to a former Google exec.
All this parking is a burden on our environment, government budgets, affordable housing, and, ultimately, quality of life, Poskey said.
He pointed to onerous parking requirements as a reason for the country's lack of affordable housing.
Areas of Plano, Texas; Springfield, Massachusetts; and New Orleans with a mix of commercial buildings and stores accounted for 3% of those cities' land but 40% of their jobs, the Brookings Institution found.