Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 810
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1150g
• ISBN-13: 9781932364965
• ISBN-10: 193236496X
• Artikelnr.: 32787956

Autorenporträt

Donald Shoup

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Twenty-first Century Parking Problem
Planning for Free Parking
Unnatural Selection
The Pseudoscience of Planning for Parking
An Analogy: Ancient Astronomy
A Great Planning Disaster
The Cost of Required Parking Spaces
Putting the Cost of Free Parking in Perspective
An Allegory: Minimum Telephone Requirements
Public Parking in Lieu of Private Parking
Reduce Demand Rather than Increase Supply
Cruising for Parking
Cruising
The Right Price for Curb Parking
Choosing to Cruise
California Cruising
Cashing in on Curb Parking
Buying Time at the Curb
Turning Small Change into Big Changes
Taxing Foreigners Living Abroad
Let Prices Do the Planning
The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue
Unbundled Parking
Time for a Paradigm Shift
Conclusion
Changing the Future
The Practice of Parking Requirements
Nationwide Transportation Surveys
The Language of Parking
The Calculus of Driving
Parking
and Walking
The Price of Land and the Cost of Parking
People
Parking
and Cities
Converting Traffic Congestion into Cash
The Vehicles of Nations
Afterword Twenty-First Century Parking Reforms