Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World


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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 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?

Contributor(s): Grabar, Henry (Author)
ISBN: 1984881159
EAN: 9781984881151
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pub Date: May 07, 2024
Binding: Paperback
Returnability: This item is Returnable
Physical Info:

  • Dimensions: 0.81" H x 8.36" L x 5.56" W
  • Weight: 0.64 lbs
  • Pages: 368 pages

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