ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode discuss how parking has shaped the American city with writer Henry Grabar. His new book Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World explores how the abundance of free parking in our urban centers may be holding them back.
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Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors.
Lauren Goode: We’re noodling. We’re live noodling.
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Lauren Goode: Hi, I’m Lauren Goode.
Gideon Lichfield: And I am Gideon Lichfield. And this is Have a Nice Future, a show about how fast everything is changing.
Lauren Goode: Each week we talk to someone with big audacious ideas about the future and we ask them, “Is this the future we want?”
Gideon Lichfield: Our guest this week is Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
Henry Grabar (audio clip): If you drive everywhere and you’re one of the people who is competing for parking spaces and complaining about parking and feeling aggrieved at your parking situation, it’s not your fault. I mean, we have designed this system and you are to some extent a prisoner of it.
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Gideon Lichfield: Lauren, why should I care about a book about parking?
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