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b'Parking is one of the great paradoxes of American life. On the one hand, we have paved an ungodly amount of land to park our cars. On the other, it seems like it\\u2019s never enough.\\xa0\\n\\nSlate\\u2019s Henry Grabar has spent the last few years investigating how our pathological need for car storage determines the look, feel, and function of the places we live. It turns out our quest for parking has made some of our biggest problems worse.\\n\\nIn this episode, we\\u2019re going to hunt for parking, from the mean streets of Brooklyn to the sandy lots of Florida. We\\u2019ll explore how parking has quietly damaged the American landscape\\u2014and see what might fix it.\\n\\nThis episode was written by Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. It was edited by Willa Paskin, who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. We had extra production from Patrick Fort and editing help from Joel Meyer. Derek John is Slate\\u2019s executive producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director.\\n\\nThank you to: Jane Wilberding, Rachel Weinberger, Donald Shoup, Andr\\xe9s Duany, Robert Davis, Micah Davis, Christy Milliken, Fletcher Isacks, Victor Benhamou, and Nina Pareja.\\xa0\\n\\nIf you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, you can email us at DecoderRing@slate.com\\n\\nIf you haven\\u2019t yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. (Even better, tell your friends.)\\n\\nIf you\\u2019re a fan of the show, sign up for Slate Plus. You\\u2019ll be able to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads\\u2014and your support is crucial to our work. Go to www.slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today.\\n\\nDecoder Ring is now available on YouTube. Listen here: https://slate.trib.al/ucMyTst\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'