Paved Paradise

I could not decide if he was being repetitive or simply circling back well on his main examples, but I definitely was ready for the book to end despite its brevity and insights

Five stars for important content, but the presentation, ugh! Impenetrable prose, confusing metaphors (“the parking industry’s white whale”?!), weird nonsequiturs. Overlong jargony sentences. Overlong book. I ended up just skimming after the first third: actually reading was too painful.

The material is crucial, I just wish it had been better edited. Am looking forward to someone writing a shorter, more approachable version.

Side note: I came to this book as a convert already; I don't mind that it's an unbalanced diatribe. I kind of enjoyed that. It’s the writing that I couldn’t take.

not a good argument, but a good survey level - would give to my elected officials to read