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Paved Paradise - Henry Grabar - 2023
How Parking Explains the World

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By: Henry Grabar
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-09-23
Categories: Business & Careers, Business Development & Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo


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An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American lifeā€”the humble parking spot

Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we donā€™t resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the advent of the car, we have deformedā€”and in some cases demolishedā€”our homes and our cities in a Sisyphean quest for cheap and convenient car storage. As a result, much of the nationā€™s most valuable real estate is now devoted exclusively to empty and idle vehicles, even as so many Americans struggle to find affordable housing. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, patterns of traffic and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, the quality of public space, and even the course of floodwaters. Can this really be the best use of our finite resources and space? Why have we done this to the places we love? Is parking really more important than anything else?

These are the questions Slate staff writer Henry Grabar sets out to answer, telling a mesmerizing story about the strange and wonderful superorganism that is the modern American city. In a beguiling and often absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage, Grabar brilliantly surveys the pain points of the nationā€™s parking crisis, from Los Angeles to Disney World to New York, stopping at every major American city in between. He reveals how the pathological compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problemsā€”from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disasterā€”ultimately, lighting the way for us to free our cities from parkingā€™s cruel yoke.

Ā©2023 Henry Grabar (P)2023 Penguin Audio


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