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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

byHenry Grabar

Henry Grabar investigates parking as a hidden force shaping American cities, housing costs, transportation, business, public space, and everyday conflict. Minimum parking requirements and expectations of free storage have produced vast lots, widened roads, raised construction prices, and limited more productive uses of valuable land. Planners, developers, activists, drivers, and residents reveal why reform is politically difficult even when spaces sit empty. Grabar turns the ordinary parking spot into a lens on public policy, showing how changing a seemingly minor convenience could create safer streets, cheaper housing, and more livable communities.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781984881137