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Parking, 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 nation's most valuable real estate is now devoted to empty vehicles. Parking determines the design of new building and the fate of old ones, traffic patters 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 nation's 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 disaster—and, ultimately, how we can free our cities from parking's cruel yoke.
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
2024, Penguin Publishing Group
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1984881159 9781984881151
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
2023, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
1984881132 9781984881137
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
2023, Penguin Publishing Group
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1984881140 9781984881144
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