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Coming up on forum, parking.

It's one of the biggest paradoxes of American life.

There's both too much and not enough.

One to two billion parking spaces in the

U.S. mean several for each car with the ratio even higher in cities. But tell that to the hairy

driver seeking a spot near an appointment or living in a densely populated neighborhood.

There are never enough places to park. We'll talk to Slate's Henry Grabar about how the pursuit of enough parking has made us need

more parking and how we get out of this cycle.

Grobar's new book is Paved Paradise, How Parking Explains the World.

Join us.

I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum. For Henry Grabar, parking is a subject that's simultaneously integral to the way things work and overlooked.

He says parking has determined how the place you live feels, looks, and functions, the design of

strip malls, office towers, and homes, the character of our cities, and the health of our

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