LA might be the most extreme parking city on the planet. Parking regulations have made it nearly impossible to build new affordable housing, or to renovate old buildings. And parking has a massive impact on how the city looks. LA is chock full of commercial strip malls, where buildings sit alone and isolated in a sea of asphalt. And all of this is the result of one policy decision that has reshaped American cities for the last eighty years.
Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, tells a mesmerizing story about the strange and wonderful super-organism 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.
Paved Paradise
486- Rumble Strip
485- Murder Most Fowl
484- Dear Hank and John and Roman
483- Grid Locked
482- Natalie de Blois: To Tell the Truth
481- The Future of the Final Mile
480- Broken Heart Park
479-According to Need wins duPont-Columbia Award
478- Art Imitates Art
477- Call of Duty: Free
476- Reaction Offices and the Future of Work
475- Rock Paper Scissors Bus
474- The Punisher Skull
473- Mini-Stories : Volume 14
472- Mini-Stories : Volume 13
471- Mini-Stories : Volume 12
470- The Three Santas of Slovenia
469- The Epic of Collier Heights
468- Alphabetical Order
467- Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
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