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when homeowners began locking their doors

looking for messes

Alternating between Kate's present-day hunt and voices from the past

- A feel-good

final trip with Alex

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World Gitte Spee when homeowners began locking theirShortlisted for the Zcalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.The New Yorker Wry and revelatory. The New York Times "A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining."The Los Angeles Times An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original