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Henry Grabar

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Read Another Book

The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.

by Henry Grabar via Slate on September 16, 2024
How America Broke the Speed Limit

How we wound up with the worst of both worlds: thousands of speed-related deaths, and a system of enforcement that is both ineffective and inescapable.

by Henry Grabar via Slate on December 15, 2021

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains The World

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Parking lot full of cars

The Tyranny of the Parking Lot

Finding space for cars has remade the built world. A new history uncovers just how much our lives revolve around parking.

by Ben Furnas via The Nation on September 7, 2023

An image of a sardine can with a large group of people shoved inside.

The People Who Hate People

Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.

by Jerusalem Demsas via The Atlantic on May 24, 2022

Two people clinking their bottles of beer together.

Let Us Drink in Public

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

by Miles Kampf-Lassin via Jacobin on August 4, 2020

Building America

The making of the black working class.

by William P. Jones via The Nation on October 7, 2019

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