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I took your advice and immediately purchased "Paved Paradise." Thank you for coming on strong with well-deserved praise for this new work. The book is very worthwhile for anybody interested in understanding the mobility-housing conundrum. The historical perspective is especially useful, with good source citations. The nearly total USA-centric focus must be noted as setting boundaries on the generality of the analysis on the world-wide issues in parking as you now know from your European trip. As a minor aside, in one of the areas where I work I found that the future-focused description of vehicle automation in the conclusion is a typical journalistic superficial overview. However, author Grabar's linkage of parking to electric vehicle charging is very insightful. And in his conclusion he has very personalized insight of critical interactions between equity and access that open up new directions for further analysis as demand for personal motorized mobility and affordable housing both grow and grow on our planet --- our home severely challenged by the requirements for economically, environmentally and equitably sustainable life within the challenges of a shared global air shed and universal human ambitions.

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