Sponsored by the 1818 Society Transport Thematic Group
Congestion pricing and parking policies have taken hold of urban transportation discussions and city politics more recently as part of a larger debate about who owns the streets. In the U.S., with as much as one-third of the land in big U.S. cities dedicated to moving and storing cars, city politicians and residents have begun to ask if there might be better things to do with all that territory. Particularly, in New York City, where street space is at a premium, the possibilities of reusing this space have fueled recent policy debates over congestion pricing, on-street parking, bus lanes, outdoor dining, or street vendors. What are the stakes and stakeholder standpoints in this matter that can help reclaim appropriate valuable city street space?
Speaker: Mr. Henry Grabar
Mr. Grabar is currently a 2024 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Since 2016, he has been a staff writer at Slate with a focus on housing, transportation, and the environment. Mr. Grabar’s work has also been published in Architect, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other outlets. He has further produced podcasts for Decoder Ring, 99 Percent Invisible, What Next, and other shows. His research on French colonial architecture in Algiers after 1962 was published in the journal Cultural Geographies. He was the editor of The Future of Transportation anthology (Metropolis Books, 2019). Most recently, he has been the author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, which was published in May, 2023 by Penguin Press. He has taught journalism to students from the University of Southern California, Sarah Lawrence, and other institutions. His story about immigrants in the meatpacking town of Fremont, Nebraska was a finalist for the 2018 Livingston Award for excellence in national reporting by a journalist under 35. He was the 2020 recipient of the Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He graduated from Yale with a degree in American Studies and French.
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