These two TED talks by rebels with a cause will have you digging up your parking strip and organizing your community in no time.

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Parking lots and strip malls are both ideals of a car-culture and suburban ideal that never actually panned out.

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SUVs scout for parking spaces at strip malls.

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It actually involves a strip club parking lot and campaign contributions.

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The July 1 shooting happened in a parking lot on West Genessee Avenue, a busy commercial strip on the north side of Saginaw.

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At strip centers, the rows of shops facing a common parking lot and often anchored by a grocery store, average vacancy declined to 10.7% in the fourth quarter from 10.8% in the third.

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