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Factually! with Adam Conover

Why Free Parking Is Ruining Your City with Henry Grabar

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Free and available parking is a cornerstone of American society, but is it also our undoing? The places where we stow our cars have more of an impact on the fundamental fabric of the urban landscape than the roads we drive on, affecting everything from how our cities are designed to how we socialize. Adam is joined by Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, to discuss the seen and unseen ways that parking changes our lives. Find Henry's book at factuallypod.com/books

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0:00.0

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0:10.4

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0:13.9

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0:30.7

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0:54.4

Hello and welcome to factually, I'm Adam Connover.

0:57.1

Now if you're like most people in this country, there is nothing you desire more.

1:01.4

There is no psychological need as great.

1:03.8

There is no object of fascination more entrancing than a parking spot.

1:07.9

Oh, people will go to enormous lengths to secure one.

1:11.4

They'll drive around for hours, looking for the perfect spot.

1:14.7

They'll block their favorite spot with cones or maybe a passive aggressive note.

1:18.6

And if they're driving to a place where there won't be one, well, they might as well just

1:22.1

stay home.

1:23.2

We have all had this intense experience of searching, searching, searching for a parking

1:28.5

spot, then finally finding one and thinking, Oh, thank God, there is nothing I needed more.

1:33.8

We love parking spots, we need parking spots and so do many of us.

1:38.5

It seems natural to assume that it's a good thing to have more parking spots, but I'm

1:43.8

here to tell you that exactly the opposite is true.

1:47.9

There is nothing worse for your mental well-being, your neighborhood, your city and your planet

1:52.8

than that parking spot you treasure so much.

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