Paradise Paved for a Parking Lot: Nathan Marsak’s book is a fascinating page-turner By Ed Condran, LA Downtown News Contributor Feb 25, 2025 Updated Feb 25, 2025 Amestoy Block, Main and Marlton ...

He covers those, too, in his new book, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains The World." Grabar is a staff writer at Slate who covers housing, transportation and urban policy.

He found that, in this case at least, developers, new urbanists, and, well, paradise-lovers have a common goal: not to build excess parking just for the sake of meeting some arbitrary standard.