depave
verbEtymology From de- + pave.
1
To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement (especially if it is in the form of asphalt, concrete or the like) so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
- Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, Island Press, page 223:
- Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, University of California Press, page 356:
4 more examples
- Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20060815221845/http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html
- They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator2002, Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html
- The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.2003, Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html
- This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com https://archive.is/20121203103059/carfreefamily.blogspot.com/2006/05/miscellaneous-stuff.html
- Synonyms
- unpave