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  • “[A] wry and revelatory new book about parking (a combination of words I never thought I would write) . . . The dream of the open road assumes a place to put our cars when we arrive at our destination. This is perhaps why so many Americans expect parking to be 'convenient, available and free'—in other words, 'perfect.' Grabar empathizes with these desires, which is partly what makes Paved Paradise so persuasive.”
    —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review

  • “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny…. Grabar has a journalist’s essential gift for making a story out of people, not propositions.”
    —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

  • “Makes the bold claim that ‘parking is the primary determinant of the way the place you live looks, feels, and functions.’ By the end of this compelling and insistent book, you might actually believe it.”
    —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

  • “You might expect a book about parking to be a snore. But I have news to report. Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World is not a slog; it’s a romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . [Grabar] lays out the issue cleanly and clearly . . . His highly entertaining take on a serious subject will persuade more people to at least take a good look.”
    —Russ Mitchell, The Los Angeles Times

  • “It’s hard to imagine a more boring topic for a book. But the parking gods have smiled on Henry Grabar, who has managed to write an engrossing account of the ways in which parking has come to define — and in many cases ruin — the modern American city.”
    —Josh Gabert-Doyon, The Financial Times

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