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"The 'parking problem' is as old as the road itself. In the seventh century BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib posted signs that read ROYAL ROAD—LET NO MAN DECREASE IT, under penalty of death and public impalement. (And you complain about parking tickets.)" -Henry Grabar, Paved Paradise

Greg Shill

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"Up until the invention of the automobile, however, the volatile nature of horses was its own form of regulation: you couldn't leave your horse on the street for a week. The advent of the car . . . turned the parking problem into a major dilemma." -Grabar, Paved Paradise

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