Talk:depave

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Cute entry for WT:LOP, but the only books.google.com hits are French. --Connel MacKenzie 04:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Hrmph! Probable Tosh. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

• Seems to be a neologism used in the Chicago area where there are attempts to provide better pedestrian access to the lake shore. Definition probably needs dePOVing a bit. SemperBlotto 06:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Tosh remark withdrawn - more hits come up when you search for other verb forms like "depaved" or "depaving":
    • Depaving the World, "Just to give you a sense of proportion: since 1992 I've probably depaved one acre with my various friends... I have managed to talk six or seven owners into depaving in these small spaces and have depaved the sidewalk-to-curb space-the "planting strip"-of the house I once owned... Speaking of which, depaving isn't cheap... [etc.]"
    • Depaving Paradise, "Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars."
    • Suburbanization's downside / Expert decries car culture, sprawl, "When Lundberg bought the place, it included a driveway, but he has “depaved” it, and it’s now a garden."
    • Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context, "They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator, “because these consumer items cause pollution and we save money by not possessing unnecessary stuff,” she says."
    • Miscellaneous Stuff, "This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed."
    • Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back (1998), p. 356: "Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields."
    • Susan Cohn, Green at Work (1995), p. 223: Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers..."
  • bd2412 T 09:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I've deleted the first POV definition as essentially not distinguished in meaning from the second, moved the quotations to the page, and removed the RfV tag. DAVilla 13:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)