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Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So
says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking
should be. Free parking, the author argues, 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. The author 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.
Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about
parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The
High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the
book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage
sprawl, degrade urban design, prohibit walkability, damage the
economy, raise housing costs, and penalize people who cannot afford
or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative
thinking, Shoup recommended three parking reforms: (1) remove
off-street parking requirements, (2) charge the right prices for
on-street parking, and (3) spend the meter revenue to improve
public services on the metered streets. Parking and the City
reports on the progress that cities have made in adopting these
three reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence
that Shoup's policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic
but instead are practical and realistic. The good news about our
decades of bad planning for parking is that the damage we have done
will be far cheaper to repair than to ignore. The 51 chapters by 46
authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided
and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good. Read more
about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51
by copying the link below into your browser.
https://www.routledge.com/posts/13972
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.
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.
Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about
parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The
High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the
book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage
sprawl, degrade urban design, prohibit walkability, damage the
economy, raise housing costs, and penalize people who cannot afford
or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative
thinking, Shoup recommended three parking reforms: (1) remove
off-street parking requirements, (2) charge the right prices for
on-street parking, and (3) spend the meter revenue to improve
public services on the metered streets. Parking and the City
reports on the progress that cities have made in adopting these
three reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence
that Shoup's policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic
but instead are practical and realistic. The good news about our
decades of bad planning for parking is that the damage we have done
will be far cheaper to repair than to ignore. The 51 chapters by 46
authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided
and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good. Read more
about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51
by copying the link below into your browser.
https://www.routledge.com/posts/13972
Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So
says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking
should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto
dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host
of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate co
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