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Paved paradise : how parking explains the world / Henry Grabar.
"An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984881137
- ISBN: 1984881132
- Physical Description: xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1: 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 2: Charging for something everyone expects to be free. How to use parking for money laundering, tax evasion, and teft -- A trip to the heart of the commercial parking industry -- When Wall Street bought Chicago's parking meters -- Part 3: How to fix the parking problem. The professor of parking starts a cult -- Parkitecture -- The shoupistas take city hall -- The Market: parking after minimums -- How Americans wound up living in a garage -- Planting gardens in the gutter -- The new world |
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| Subject: | Automobile parking. Parking facilities. Parking lots. Automobile parking > United States. Parking facilities > United States. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albright Memorial Library | 388.474 GRABAR (Text) | 50686016298536 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | 388.474 GRA (Text) | 33240005163145 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | 388.474 G727p (Text) | 85131001878777 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Carbondale Public Library | 388.474 GRABAR (Text) | 50688010865252 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Indian Valley Public Library | 388.474 Grabar Buisness & Economics (Text) | 39427103739207 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lower Macungie Library | 388.474 GRA (Text) | 33400001586455 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Martin Library | Adults 388.74 GRA Life Times (Text) | 33454005952866 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
| RACC | HE355.3.P37 G73 2023 (Text) | 33624024968800 | Books | Available | - |
| Reading Public Library RPL - Main | 388.474 Gra (Text) | 33223009032904 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Trone Memorial Library (East Berlin) | 388.474 GRABAR (Text)
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Robert K. Shuey Named Endowment, 2023
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