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What would life in America be like if we focused on people instead of cars? One man makes the case that the pursuit of abundant parking is upending our cities and our lives, but that change is within reach.

 Henry Grabar is a journalist and the author of 

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

. His writing and research focuses on housing, transport, and the environment. 

 According to Grabar's work, the U.S is facing a crisis of excess with parking. And it has more of an impact on your life than you may think.  

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 Grabar spoke with NPR's Juana Summers to discuss the ideas of housing for machines rather than humans — and what a better future might look like in his eyes. 

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One man makes the case that Americans' pursuit of abundant parking is upending our cities and our lives.

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