Remember that line from the Joni Mitchell song? “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded “Big Yellow Taxi” in 1970. It was not a ...

Two of the most gifted young songwriters in metro Phoenix — Izzy Mahoubi and Sydney Sprague — have collaborated on a haunting cover of the Joni Mitchell song “Big Yellow Taxi” as part of a forthcoming ...

In one of many sobering anecdotes contained in Henry Grabar's "Paved Paradise," "The Sims" video game cut back on parking lots because adhering to reality would have been too depressing.

This article is adapted from an episode of Decoder Ring, Slate’s podcast about cracking cultural mysteries, as well as the book Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. Once you see it, it ...

I read (well, listened to) Paved Paradise on the recommendation of Matt Reed. Please read Matt’s June 20 review for an excellent synthesis and analysis of the book. Once you read Paved Paradise, it ...