The Department of Transportation is currently at work on a pilot project testing the applicability of new parking technologies in the Bronx, including pavement-embedded sensors that could enable drivers to see whether parking spaces are occupied or vacant.
In the long run, officials say, neighborhoods where occupied houses are interspersed with vacant lots will not be viable, and entire areas will need to be rebuilt.
Yet Nelson also estimates that in 2025 there will be a surplus of 22 million large-lot homes that will not be left vacant in a suburban wasteland but instead occupied by lower classes who have been driven out of their once affordable inner-city apartments and houses.