Henry Grabar is a journalist, author, and researcher who thinks about cities. Since 2016 he has been
a staff writer at Slate where he writes the Metropolis column, with a focus on housing, transportation, and the environment. His work has also been published in Architect, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, and he has produced podcasts for Decoder Ring, 99 Percent Invisible, and What Next. 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), and was the author of
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Penguin Press, 2023), which was named a best book of the year by the
New Yorker and the
New Republic.
