All car trips begin and end with a place to park, making a parking space “nothing less than the link between driving and life itself.” In his new book, Paved Paradise, Henry Grabar, a staff writer at Slate, argues that the need to accommodate the short- and long-term storage of countless big metal boxes on wheels is a determinative force in the design of cities, the shape of buildings, the cost of housing and even the health of our planet. Deeply reported, highly entertaining and filled with colorful stories and characters from the worlds of affordable housing development, government and even organized crime, Paved Paradise is a refreshing look at a subject that explains the world. This episode is produced with support from and . .*** LINKS: Buy Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar and other books by podcast guests at . Follow Henry Grabar on . Read more from Henry at . Pick up . Attend or and save 20% on tickets by using the links. This episode was edited by Doug Gordon. It was recorded at the by Josh Wilcox. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear.
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