| Description |
xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: 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 II: charging for something everyone expects to be free -- How to use parking for money laundering, tax evasion, and theft -- A trip to the heart of the commercial parking industry -- When Wall Street bought Chicago's parking meters -- Part III: how to fix the parking problem -- The professor of parking starts a cult -- Parkitecture -- The shoupistas take city hall -- The market: parking after minimiums -- How Americans wound up living in the garage -- Planting gardens in the gutter -- The new world. |
| Summary |
"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" |
| Subject |
Automobile parking -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Automobile parking -- United States.
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Parking facilities.
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Parking facilities -- United States.
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Parking lots.
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Parking lots -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781984881137 (hardcover) |
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1984881132 (hardcover) |
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