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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

Auteur(s): Donald Shoup
Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
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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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A meticulous and comprehensive examination of the harm free parking imposes on cities. These parking policies have radically shaped the way North American cities are planned, and have become so ingrained in American culture that it's hard to imagine a city without them. If the author's recommendations were implemented, cities would see a significant improvement in their vibrancy and an increase in the viability of walking and public transit.

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As much a hit piece against the author's own dislikes as it is an argument of planning theory. Many of the presented analogies are irrational, and the book itself is likely better left to ideological realms, rather than in policy. A major treatise against the author's ideas would be that larger suppliers, especially those within suburban satelite areas would attract a dominant portion of customers by being able to offer more free parking. The average consumer would choke out market rate parking areas, as has been seen to happen in most smaller metropolitan areas. This is all negating the larger mobilities arguments which explain apprehension to take public transit.

poor ideological review of planning theory

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