Paved paradise: how parking explains the world

Part I. What a mess we made --

Housing for cars and housing for people --

Fighting over parking spaces --

The travails of New York's top parking attendant --

Destroying the city in order to save it --

Paved paradise --

Part II. In the land of the blind: charging for something everyone expects to be free --

How to use parking for money laundering, tax evasion, and theft --

A trip to the heart of the commercial parking industry --

When Wall Street bought Chicago's parking meters --

Part III. How to fix the parking problem --

The professor of parking starts a cult --

Parkitecture --

The shoupistas take city hall --

The market: parking after premiums --

How Americans wound up living in the garage --

Planting gardens in the gutter --

The new world.