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I don’t usually talk about it, but I love Trader Joe’s parking lots.
Bringing this up in polite company is overly antagonistic, as many people view the lots as one of Dante’s rings of hell. (The only thing worse is the Wedge Coop parking lot on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, an escalation that illustrates my point.) But to me, Trader Joe’s parking represent an ideal U.S. urban form, the platonic balance of access and automobile accommodation…