The High Cost of Free Parking - Updated Edition (Paperback, Updated ed)

One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking - namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.

General

Imprint:	American Planning Association
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Donald Shoup
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	763
Edition:	Updated ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-932364-96-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	1-932364-96-X
Barcode:	9781932364965

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