Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town

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Parking ain’t free, brother. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown sUbScRiBe FoR mOrE ViDeOs: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1 If you like the sound of Brilliant, head to https://brilliant.org/getbrilliant - that link gets you a 30 day free trial AND the first 200 people get 20% off Brilliant Premium for LIFE. You heard it right: WE STARTED A PODCAST! It’s called The Climate Denier’s Playbook and you can listen to it right here: https://linktr.ee/deniersplaybook And ohhhh yeah we have a newsletter! You can sign up right here: https://www.climatetown.news/ Also what the hell we’re doing another live show in Brooklyn on August 23rd at the Bell House?? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-town-town-hall-tickets-673247370007 And wait there’s actually something we can do about this maybe? Our friends at Climate Changemakers have put together a playbook on how to take action: https://www.climatechangemakers.org/playbook-parking-mandates Check out the Not Just Bikes right here: https://www.youtube.com/NotJustBikes & his fantastic parking video: https://youtu.be/mXLqrMljdfU EPISODE SOURCES & CITATIONS: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/youtube/parkinglots Special thanks to Donald Shoup (https://www.shoupdogg.com/) for his decades of work on exposing parking issues in the US, and for his willingness to help us with this episode. The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup (Dropbox link for the free 2004 manuscript PDF from his website): https://www.dropbox.com/s/npqk6adti2en7qy/The%20High%20Cost%20of%20Free%20Parking%20-%20Manuscript%202004.pdf?dl=0 Paved Paradise by Harry Grabar: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634461/paved-paradise-by-henry-grabar/ Strong Towns has done a ton of great work pushing back against parking minimums, and our car-centric North American city design in general. Check them out here: https://www.strongtowns.org/ Strong Towns also made this great video called: Are Parking Lots Ruining Your City? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhOFUQDLQk The Parking Reform Network is another excellent resource, and they made this killer map tracking the progress of parking minimum rollbacks across the US: https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/ Host, Head Writer, Editor: Rollie Williams Executive Producers: Rollie Williams & Ben Boult & Matt Nelsen & Nicole Conlan Writers: Nicole Conlan & Matt Nelsen & Ben Boult Director: Matt Nelsen Cinematographer: Ben Boult Assistant Editor: Xola Thompson Production Assistants: Milton Vargas, Christine Grobelny Animator: Ian MK Cessna (https://ianhasawebsite.com/) Theme music by Gratis (https://www.youtube.com/@gratis3241) Special thanks to the Civil Liberties Defense Center (https://cldc.org/) and Mackenzie Brennan for their support Oh, what's that? We’re also on the larger Internet? Discord server: https://discord.gg/yPpfgSaZeQ Podcast: https://linktr.ee/deniersplaybook Newsletter: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/newsletter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/climatetown/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@climatetown Website: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/ LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/ClimateTown Make a tax-deductible donation to Climate Town: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/support Join and support some movements! 350.org (https://350.org/) Sunrise Movement (https://www.sunrisemovement.org/) NRDC (https://www.nrdc.org/) Climate Changemakers (https://www.climatechangemakers.org/) Extinction Rebellion (https://extinctionrebellion.us/get-involved/) Climate Action Network (http://www.climatenetwork.org/) Heated newsletter (https://heated.world/) Union of Concerned Scientists (https://www.ucsusa.org/)