See depave in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "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:",
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"ref": "2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, \"Depaving Paradise\", Audubon Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20060815221845/http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html",
"text": "Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars."
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"ref": "2002, Jan Lundberg, \"Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context\", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html",
"text": "They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator"
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"ref": "2003, Richard Register, \"Depaving the World\", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html",
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"text": "This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed."
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"ref": "2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 26:",
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