In downtown Chicago, there is a multilevel parking garage that uses the names of countries instead of numbers to denote each level. In the elevator, the buttons are labeled France, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Germany, etc… each in a different typeface. In the elevator lobby on each floor, the national anthem of the country is broadcast through an intercom. While parking garages don’t seem to inspire the imagination of the public, foreign countries do
. People don’t forget where their cars are parked, and almost everyone is smiling when they leave the garage.