Today I was talking about CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) with Barry Davidson, Executive Director of the Canada-based International CPTED Association, and we both agreed that car parks have been subject to character assassination in the modern media.
Just off the top of my head, I can think of many movies featuring parking lot mayhem – Back to the Future, Heat, Terminator 2, The Bourne Ultimatum, Thelma and Louise. I think every James Bond movie has a car park scene. In Tomorrow Never Dies, Pierce Brosnan drives a car through a parking lot, remotely from the back seat, under a hailstorm of bullets, of course. The scene where a helpless victim is hiding behind cars in a parking lot with a bad guy in a close pursuit – and the victim looks under the cars to see the bad guy’s shoes – is a classic cinema stereotype. And the TV episodes that situate danger in parking lots are too numerous to catalog.
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