It still is, but below ground now. You can see the entry building in the bottom left of the picture.
Every square in Belgium once was a parking lot, especially in the eighties. Even the Grote markt in Brussels. And you would be surprised how many older people would love to bring it back…
Where have the trees gone ?
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Same as the Reep and Graslei/Korenlei
…at least the parking lot had some trees 🙂
Everywhere that fit a car in Gent was a parking lot. Graslei. Korenmarkt. You could even park on the water behind the Inno. Before they opened up De Reep again, they had paved it over for parking spaces. Like many cities in Europe during the rise of the car, Gent did a lot to get the car into the city center, which in hindsight was pretty destructive for how liveable the center is. Luckily there’s been a lot of change lately, but things like the underground parking lots in the center still bringing heaps of cars into the city are gonna be a lot harder to undo.
Go check out some pictures of the city center from the 70s-80s on https://www.gent-geprent.com/ (I love this website, rabbit hole warning!)
Hey, OP. This website has a shit ton of pictures from Gent throughout the years. If you filter on older dates you can see a bunch of pictures of how car dominated Gent used to be to today
Korenlei and Graslei were parking lots too. And more recently, the entire area around the schapenstal was also a parking lot.
Could use some of those trees back though
Tbh most were parking lots, antwerp, mechelen..
Same as Grote Markt in Mechelen.
Amai, het onderste is niet echt een verbetering. Auto slecht, maar wat is het nut om over kale, hete asfalt te wandelen? Bovenste ziet er beter uit omwille van die bomen.
Ik snap die obsessie hier niet om over een heet plein te wandelen.
It’s so funny how car centric people just hate on everything mildly inconvenient to them, they’re still screaming about how the center of Brussels died with the piétonnier between debroucker and annessen but it has to be the liveliest part of the city.
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It still is, but below ground now. You can see the entry building in the bottom left of the picture.
Every square in Belgium once was a parking lot, especially in the eighties. Even the Grote markt in Brussels. And you would be surprised how many older people would love to bring it back…
Where have the trees gone ?
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Same as the Reep and Graslei/Korenlei
…at least the parking lot had some trees 🙂
Everywhere that fit a car in Gent was a parking lot. Graslei. Korenmarkt. You could even park on the water behind the Inno. Before they opened up De Reep again, they had paved it over for parking spaces. Like many cities in Europe during the rise of the car, Gent did a lot to get the car into the city center, which in hindsight was pretty destructive for how liveable the center is. Luckily there’s been a lot of change lately, but things like the underground parking lots in the center still bringing heaps of cars into the city are gonna be a lot harder to undo.
Go check out some pictures of the city center from the 70s-80s on https://www.gent-geprent.com/ (I love this website, rabbit hole warning!)
Hey, OP. This website has a shit ton of pictures from Gent throughout the years. If you filter on older dates you can see a bunch of pictures of how car dominated Gent used to be to today
https://beeldbank.stad.gent/portal/media
Korenlei and Graslei were parking lots too. And more recently, the entire area around the schapenstal was also a parking lot.
Could use some of those trees back though
Tbh most were parking lots, antwerp, mechelen..
Same as Grote Markt in Mechelen.
Amai, het onderste is niet echt een verbetering. Auto slecht, maar wat is het nut om over kale, hete asfalt te wandelen? Bovenste ziet er beter uit omwille van die bomen.
Ik snap die obsessie hier niet om over een heet plein te wandelen.
It’s so funny how car centric people just hate on everything mildly inconvenient to them, they’re still screaming about how the center of Brussels died with the piétonnier between debroucker and annessen but it has to be the liveliest part of the city.
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