How Parking Explains the World: Author Talk with Henry Grabar
Learn more about the ways that parking - and how it’s managed - can alter the physical world around us
Hosted in partnership with the County's Parking and Curb Space Management team.
In "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World," Slate staff writer Henry Grabar uses a beguiling and absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage to brilliantly survey the nation’s parking management, revealing how the compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems— from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster—and, ultimately, how we can free our cities from parking’s cruel yoke.
Preceding the program, the county's Parking and Curb Space Management team will host an Open House to learn more about the next phase in the Parking Performance Pilot project in Arlington.
The author conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Books are available for pre-order through One More Page Books. If you would like to purchase a copy, please order through this link and your copy will be available for pick up at the program.
REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED: First-come, first-served seating. By registering, you will receive event updates.
For questions, please contact LibraryPrograms@arlingtonva.us
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 9, 2025
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:45pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Author Talk Sustainability & Environment
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
Henry Grabar is a journalist in Boston. He's a staff writer at Slate, where he writes the Metropolis column, and his reporting has also appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, 99 Percent Invisible, and other publications. He was the author of "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" and the editor of "The Future of Transportation." His next book follows the construction of an apartment building.