Henry Grabar: Paved Paradise

"Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World," a lecture by Henry Grabar.

Award-winning journalist and Harvard planning fellow Henry Grabar explains how our pursuit of the perfect parking space worsens traffic, increases housing costs, endangers pedestrians, accelerates global warming, and, on a day-to-day basis, drives us to distraction. Better transportation infrastructure and smarter parking policy, by contrast, can make our cities more vibrant, just, and sustainable.

About the Speaker

Henry Grabar is a staff writer at Slate and a Loeb fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work has been published in the Atlantic, Guardian, Harper’s, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Penguin, 2023).

Sponsors

Lead event sponsor: Ulupono Initiative.

Event co-sponsors: School of Architecture and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with assistance from the UH Foundation. Series sponsors include the Scholars Strategy Network and the Ulupono Initiative.

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