Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

I'm sorry to everyone who's had to hear me talk about this the past few weeks and everyone who will have to hear me talk about this in the future

An utterly fascinating book about the evils of parking mandates, the ease of which money laundering encompasses parking garages it ultimately how the pandemic fixed many issues.

I expected a more balanced take, but about half this book is repeated tirades that amount to “cars = bad”, “transit = good”. I think the argument could have been made in a more balanced way (focusing on externalities of cars and parking) rather than just essentially claiming they are the root of all problems in cities.

I guess I really don't care that much about parking. Another nonfiction book that would have been more successful as an article in New Yorker or other similar publication.