https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paxgz9/parking-spaces-will-no-longer-be-just-for-cars

To find one of Berlin’s best chill-out spots, take the elevator in the Neukölln Arcaden shopping mall to the fifth-floor parking garage. Then it’s just a quick trudge up the ramp to the garage’s top floor to reach your destination—a hybrid nightclub/urban garden where stylish young people sip Club Mate, snack on a rotating menu of street food, and dance as the sun sets over the city.

Camping out in reclaimed parking lots isn’t just for German hipsters and thirsty backpackers. Thanks to the exploding popularity of car-sharing services and the heralded arrival of autonomous vehicles, cities around the world are reimagining their soon-to-be irrelevant parking garages. After a century of urban planning that prioritized the comfort of cars, formerly auto-forward sections of cities are being redesigned for the joy of people.