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Since the advent of the car, we have deformed our cities in a Sisyphean quest for car storage, and as a result, much of the nation's most valuable real estate is now devoted to empty vehicles. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, traffic patterns and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, and the overall quality of public space. Is this really the best use of our finite resources? 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Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trains  With the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation times. Most city commuters would be quick to tell you otherwise.  Of all the technological interventions continuously inserted into our daily travels, which ones will last? Is ride-sharing here to stay? In ten years will we all be taking autonomous vehicles to work? Will traffic as we know it cease to exist? While this volume makes no promises or predictions, it does take a step back from the hype of the new to explore what might seem like yesterday's solutions: buses, bikes and even trains. Perhaps remedies to our transportation woes are not all in the future but are hiding in plain and present sight.  The Future of Transportation is the third volume in the SOM Thinkers series, conceived by Skidmore, Owings \u0026amp; Merrill. 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This volume features work by Henry Grabar, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Laura Bliss, Darran Anderson, Nick Van Mead, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Alison Griswold and Christopher Schaberg, with artwork by Olalekan Jeyifous.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50062274822417,"sku":"GOR011941332","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50405881315601,"sku":"CINB07XLY9TZPVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057848484113,"sku":"NIN9781942884453","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141473530129,"sku":"NLS9781942884453","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B07XLY9TZP.jpg?v=1751125379"},{"product_id":"paved-paradise-book-henry-grabar-9781984881151","title":"Paved Paradise","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Named one of the best books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Wry and revelatory.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a shocking number of Americans kill one another over parking spots, and we routinely do ri­diculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. 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