Paved paradise : how parking explains the world / Henry Grabar.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984881137 :
- ISBN: 1984881132 :
- Physical Description: xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
- Copyright: �2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: what a mess we made -- Housing for cars and housing for people -- Fighting over parking spaces -- The travails of New York's top parking attendant -- Destroying the city in order to save it -- Paved paradise -- Part II: in the land of the blind: charging for something everyone expects to be free -- How to use parking for money laundering, tax evasion, and theft -- A trip to the heart of the commercial parking industry -- When Wall Street bought Chicago's parking meters -- Part III: how to fix the parking problem -- The professor of parking starts a cult -- Parkitecture -- The shoupistas take city hall -- The market: parking after premiums -- How Americans wound up living in the garage -- Planting gardens in the gutter -- The new world. |
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Subject: | Automobile parking > Social aspects > United States. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pease Public Library | 388.474 GRABAR
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