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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
| Author: |
Grabar, Henry |
| Binding: |
Hardcover
|
| List Price: | $41.00 |
| Our Price: | $5.60 CAD |
| Qty Avail: | 126 |
| ISBN: | 9781984881137 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Press |
| Language: | English |
| Page Count: | 346 |
| Publication Date: | 5/9/2023 |
| Size: | 9.50" l x 6.28" w x 1.30" |
| Series: | N/A |
| Category | Subject |
|---|---|
| Social Science | Sociology |
| Business & Economics | Development |
| Transportation | Automotive - General |
Shortlisted for the ZĆ³calo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American lifeāthe 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 riĀdiculous 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 nationās 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 nationās parking crisis, revealing how the compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problemsā from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disasterāand, ultimately, how we can free our cities from parkĀingās cruel yoke.
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American lifeāthe 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 riĀdiculous 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 nationās 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 nationās parking crisis, revealing how the compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problemsā from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disasterāand, ultimately, how we can free our cities from parkĀingās cruel yoke.
