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The High Cost of Free Parking

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The High Cost of Free Parking

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The High Cost of Free Parking book

The High Cost of Free Parking

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The High Cost of Free Parking book

ByDonald C. Shoup
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2005
eBook Published 25 February 2021
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351179539
Pages 752
eBook ISBN 9781351179539
Subjects Built Environment
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Shoup, D.C. (2005). The High Cost of Free Parking (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351179539

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter Chapter 1|18 pages

The Twenty-first Century Parking Problem

part Part I|253 pages

Planning for Free Parking

chapter Chapter 2|53 pages

Unnatural Selection

chapter Chapter 3|43 pages

The Pseudoscience of Planning for Parking

chapter Chapter 4|8 pages

An Analogy: Ancient Astronomy

chapter Chapter 5|58 pages

A Great Planning Disaster

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

The Cost of Required Parking Spaces

chapter Chapter 7|19 pages

Putting the Cost of Free Parking in Perspective

chapter Chapter 8|3 pages

An Allegory: Minimum Telephone Requirements

chapter Chapter 9|22 pages

Public Parking in Lieu of Private Parking

chapter Chapter 10|21 pages

Reduce Demand Rather than Increase Supply

part Part II|103 pages

Cruising for Parking

chapter Chapter 11|20 pages

Cruising

chapter Chapter 12|25 pages

The Right Price for Curb Parking

chapter Chapter 13|26 pages

Choosing to Cruise

chapter Chapter 14|29 pages

California Cruising

part Part III|210 pages

Cashing in on Curb Parking

chapter Chapter 15|17 pages

Buying Time at the Curb

chapter Chapter 16|36 pages

Turning Small Change into Big Changes

chapter Chapter 17|38 pages

Taxing Foreigners Living Abroad

chapter Chapter 18|34 pages

Let Prices Do the Planning

chapter Chapter 19|53 pages

The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue

chapter Chapter 20|20 pages

Unbundled Parking

chapter Chapter 21|8 pages

Time for a Paradigm Shift

part Part IV|19 pages

Conclusion

chapter Chapter 22|17 pages

Changing the Future

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