or broken up and grimy concrete slabs for the industrial area's!
Car parks would be amazing. Sadly be a bit more of a revamp for the AI to use it over their normal parking spot. Plus most people rather use their parking spot at their houses etc. But damn all those cars on the road is insane!
Those white lined parking spaces that you can see in front of some of the commercial buildings come from the original CiM and they are functional. I don't think it would be very hard to put a bunch of them together and create a functional parking lot.
In NYC there is parking on all streets, except where it is restricted. Even in residential areas with driveways and garages the street is always filled with cars. Only in the suburbs do you see streets with no cars parked on them. So to me this is pretty realistic.