Henry Grabar - Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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
Publisher’s Summary
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 handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don’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 deformed—and in some cases demolished—our homes and our cities in a Sisyphean quest for cheap and convenient car storage. As a result, much of the nation’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 nation’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 problems—from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster—ultimately, lighting the way for us to free our cities from parking’s cruel yoke.
©2023 Henry Grabar (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Creation Date: | Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:07:03 +0100 |
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00. Introduction.mp3 11.26 MBs | |
01. Housing for Cars and Housing for People.mp3 17.71 MBs | |
02. Fighting Over Parking Spaces.mp3 11.66 MBs | |
03. The Travails of New York’s Top Parking Attendant.mp3 21.43 MBs | |
04. Destroying the City in Order to Save It.mp3 20.38 MBs | |
05. Paved Paradise.mp3 19.33 MBs | |
06. How to Use Parking for Money Laundering, Tax Evasion, and Theft.mp3 14.56 MBs | |
07. A Trip to the Heart of the Commercial Parking Industry.mp3 17.03 MBs | |
08. When Wall Street Bought Chicago’s Parking Meters.mp3 24.89 MBs | |
09. The Professor of Parking Starts a Cult.mp3 24.79 MBs | |
10. Parkitecture.mp3 26.54 MBs | |
11. The Shoupistas Take City Hall.mp3 17.1 MBs | |
12. The Market - Parking after Minimums.mp3 15.38 MBs | |
13. How Americans Wound Up Living in the Garage.mp3 19.37 MBs | |
14. Planting Gardens in the Gutter.mp3 20.67 MBs | |
15. The New World.mp3 9.22 MBs | |
16. Conclusion.mp3 8.54 MBs | |
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This post has 2 comments with rating of 3.5/5
January 15th, 2025
Thank you
January 16th, 2025
Until magical transporters exist, we need vehicles, and we will need to keep them somewhere while we do our business.
Spare me the mass transit and rideshare bullshit. I too would love to see parking lots unnecessary, but a free society needs freedom of movement, not bus schedules.
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