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The act of giving land back its dirt, one jackhammered parking lot at a time.
means To remove pavement or hard surfacing from a road, lot, or path, often to restore soil, water flow, or nature.
from A modern reversal of pave, itself from Latin pavire, to beat or ram the ground flat — unpave simply undoes the ramming.
City trendDepaving movements rip up asphalt for rain gardens.
Why botherBare soil absorbs floods that pavement just sheds.
River revivalSome cities unpave to daylight buried streams.