ABSTRACT
The public good includes both the handicapped parker and the marginalized position of ability that such drivers possess, to the pregnant parker to judges and corporate executives who have much political status to their positions. This chapter examines the evolution of parking as a public good through competing notions of rights, property, and legal consciousness that the built environment facilitates and encourages. It considers the issues as well as how the built environment of parking is based upon a kind of space-based law. The chapter explores the identities of belonging and concentrations of hierarchy through ownership link power to place in the parking spaces. It concludes the landscape of parking, involving parking meters, parking spaces, parking lots, and visitor parking, is a political environment rich with controversy because of its quotidian presence in our everyday lives. Through municipal regulation, private economic interests defined who the public was and what the good that would benefit that public would look like.
