Build less housing for cars and more for people. Two books on how the past can guide the future
In one of my favorite micro-genres of TikTok reveal, a camera sweeps through a hotel room to a curtain that is dramatically parted to expose a breathtaking view of ... a parking lot. "I'm so grateful to travel for work," writes @mollygoodridge in one such post (3 million views and counting), showing a dire lot fronting a scraggle of bare trees — all set to the soaring vocals of "Out There" from Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
"I'm sobbing," reads one response. "Such beauty."
That particular video was shot in Ohio, but it could have been filmed in just about any business loop in the United States. I stayed in one such place during a recent reporting trip to Arizona: a three-story inn tucked behind a
