Paved Paradise author Henry Grabar talks to CNN's John Sutter about parking in the U.S. He says there are a minority of people who believe that parking explains the world. The leader of this movement is 84-year-old urban planning professor Donald Shoop, he says. "He's like the pope of parking studies," Grabar says.
In our quest to accommodate parked cars, we’ve paved over downtowns, polluted the planet, and made it near impossible to get anywhere without driving. Slate’s Henry Grabar explains Big Parking — and how electric cars might offer an opportunity to finally try something new.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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