Private Places and Parking Spaces

Private Places and Parking Spaces

In many areas of Portland, Oregon, without a private Parking Space included in the design of your new building, your Private Places – your car and your home – are isolated from one another. You park one of your Private Places many blocks away, in front of the somebody else’s house in an older, established neighborhood – pre-empting a Parking Space in front of somebody else’s Private Place – and you carry your groceries home through the rain. Because of the loss of Parking Spaces, the sense of invasion and strangeness for residents in a neighborhood where they have invested their lives is strong.

In Nye Beach in Newport, Oregon, the future of a house without a driveway is isolated Portlandishly.

If you have an RV, wherever you go, you pay for a Parking Space for your Private Place – or else, you park catch-as-catch can somewhere on the street or along a highway where you are laying there in bed at night in your Private Place wondering what form invasion is going to take.