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Paved paradise : how parking explains the world / Henry Grabar.

Grabar, Henry, (author.).

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.