Most office complexes have parking lots larger than buildings. People are smaller than cars, commute one person to car, and buildings are often multi story where parking is not.
Hence campuses that are 85% parking lot.
Hence campuses that are 85% parking lot.
Yeah and that is nuts. We lose ridiculous amounts of valuable land for barely any productive use - every day Germany loses 39 ha for buildings and 8 ha for transportation infrastructure [1], which means streets and parking lots.
Loss of land is an externality that doesn't get priced in anywhere.
[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/boden-flaeche/bodenbel...
But we should also have a Land Value Tax to push people toward using it more productively.