123. Salient

From, “Paved, but Still Alive,” by Michael Kimmelman, 1/6/12, The New York Times:

“In “Rethinking a Lot,” a new study of parking, due out in March, Eran Ben-Joseph, a professor of urban planning at M.I.T., points out that “in some U.S. cities, parking lots cover more than a third of the land area, becoming the single most salient landscape feature of our built environment.””

Salient: prominent