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Paved Paradise : How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101984881132

ISBN-139781984881137

eBay Product ID (ePID)28057284260

Product Key Features

Book TitlePaved Paradise : How Parking Explains the World

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAutomotive / General, Sociology / Urban, Development / Sustainable Development

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreTransportation, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorHenry Grabar

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-038827

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"When people think of cities and suburbs, they think of housing, office buildings, retail shops, and malls. But few of us ever consider parking. Yet as Henry Grabar tells it, parking actually consumes more space in America than housing. Paved Paradise is must reading for mayors, urbanists, and everyone who wants to understand America's parking obsession and what it costs our cities, economies, and society. It is a spectacular achievement." --Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class "Like no one else before, Henry Grabar explains why mismanaged parking is the greatest single cause of many urban ills. Everyone who wants to reduce traffic congestion, clean the air, support public transportation, encourage biking and walking, promote business, increase employment, improve public services, and slow global warming should read Paved Paradise and heed Grabar's advice for solving the parking problem." --Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking "Every American with a driver's license needs to read Henry Grabar's brilliant book on parking. He's interviewed a wonderful cast of characters. His analysis of asphalt disaster is laced with humor to help us process bad news: although parking requirements keep housing costs high and limit new businesses, drivers still can't find a space. Grabar demonstrates why the lively, mixed-use, pedestrian neighborhoods we would all like to live in, or at least drive to, are in very limited supply." --Dolores Hayden, author of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, "No one thinks about parking until they can't find a spot. But the implications of finding room for cars at rest is massive, and Henry Grabar has gifted us with a stunningly eye-opening, wildly engaging survey of a chronically--and wrongly--overlooked phenomenon." --Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do "Parking--the key to the American landscape, hiding in plain sight. But do you want to read a book about it? Yes, if it's Henry Grabar's lively, entertaining tour of how parking contorts our cities and suburbs into unlivable (or at least unhappy) spaces, and how we can remake them." --Emily Bazelon, author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration "From curbside battles to sprawling mall lots, penny-pinching mayors to NIMBY homeowners, Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise demonstrates, in rich and at times downright absurdist detail, how parking has come to dominate and frustrate our lives--and how we might save our cities." --Alexandra Lange, author of Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall " Paved Paradise is a total delight, a tour de force of fantastic reporting. You will never look at parked cars the same way again." --Clive Thompson, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World "When people think of cities and suburbs, they think of housing, office buildings, retail shops, and malls. But few of us ever consider parking. Yet as Henry Grabar tells it, parking actually consumes more space in America than housing. Paved Paradise is must reading for mayors, urbanists, and everyone who wants to understand America's parking obsession and what it costs our cities, economies, and society. It is a spectacular achievement." --Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class "Like no one else before, Henry Grabar explains why mismanaged parking is the greatest single cause of many urban ills. Everyone who wants to reduce traffic congestion, clean the air, support public transportation, encourage biking and walking, promote business, increase employment, improve public services, and slow global warming should read Paved Paradise and heed Grabar's advice for solving the parking problem." --Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking "Every American with a driver's license needs to read Henry Grabar's brilliant book on parking. He's interviewed a wonderful cast of characters. His analysis of asphalt disaster is laced with humor to help us process bad news: although parking requirements keep housing costs high and limit new businesses, drivers still can't find a space. Grabar demonstrates why the lively, mixed-use, pedestrian neighborhoods we would all like to live in, or at least drive to, are in very limited supply." --Dolores Hayden, author of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth "Using vivid examples and illustrations . . . Grabar builds a powerful case that making parking a little more scarce will make Americans' lives a lot better. This deep dive into an overlooked aspect of the modern world delivers." -- Publisher's Weekly "Grabar offers an intriguing, wide-ranging, readable perspective of the urban American parking scene, its issues, and possible future." -- Library Journal

Dewey Decimal388.4740973

SynopsisShortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic " Consistently entertaining and often downright funny." -- The New Yorker "Wry and revelatory." -- The New York Times "A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining." -- The Los Angeles Times An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot 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? 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., Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic "Consistently entertaining and often downright funny." -- The New Yorker "Wry and revelatory." -- The New York Times "A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining." -- The Los Angeles Times An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot 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? 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.

LC Classification NumberHE336.P37G73 2023