Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Title: Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World Author: Henry Grabar ISBN: 9781984881151 Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New Non-Fiction 1623230 Publisher Description: Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic "Consistently entertaining and often downright funny." --The New Yorker "Wry and revelatory." --The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining." --The Los Angeles Times An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a shocking number of Americans k