English
Verb
en-verb|depav|ing
- To undo the act of pave|paving; to remove pavement so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
#:*Even though it caused much controversy, Mayor Daley was eventually lauded as a hero for his decision to depave Lake Shore Drive.
Quotations
1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, page 223, Island Press
:Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...
1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, page 356, University of California Press
:Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.
2000 March�April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine 1
:Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.
2002, Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at <tt>www.culturechange.org</tt> 2
:They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator
2003, Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at <tt>www.culturechange.org</tt> 3
:The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.
2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family, at <tt>carfreefamily.blogspot.com</tt> 4
:This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.
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