High Cost of Free Parking
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Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says Donald Shoup in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be.Free parking, Shoup 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. 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.See what journalists are writing about the high cost of free parking.
1The twenty-first century parking problem12Unnatural selection213The pseudoscience of planning for parking754An analogy : ancient astronomy1195A great planning disaster1276The cost of required parking spaces1857Putting the cost of free parking in perspective2058An allegory : minimum telephone requirements2259Public parking in lieu of private parking22910Reduce demand rather than increase supply25111Cruising27512The right price for curb parking29513Choosing to cruise32114California cruising34715Buying time at the curb37916Turning small change into big changes39717Taxing foreigners living abroad43318Let prices do the planning47119The ideal source of local public revenue50520Unbundled parking55921Time for a paradigm shift57922Changing the future589App. AThe practice of parking requirements607App. BNationwide transportation surveys621App. CThe language of parking627App. DThe calculus of driving, parking, and walking631App. EThe price of land and the cost of parking643App. FPeople, parking, and cities649App. GConverting traffic congestion into cash659App. HThe vehicles of nations673
