Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

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Shortlisted for the Zcalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New RepublicConsistently entertaining and often downright funny.The New YorkerWry and revelatory. The New York TimesA romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining.The Los Angeles TimesAn entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American lifethe humble parking spotParking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a shocking number of Americans kill one another over parking spots, and we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Since the advent of the car, we have deformed our cities in a Sisyphean quest for car storage, and as a result, much of the nations most valuable real estate is now devoted to empty vehicles. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, traffic patterns and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, and the overall quality of public space. Is this really the best use of our finite resources? Is parking really more important than everything else?In a beguiling and absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage, Slate staff writer Henry Grabar brilliantly surveys the nations parking crisis, revealing how the compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disasterand, ultimately, how we can free our cities from parkings cruel yoke.

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