Parking and the City

Synopsis

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 Important 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 Were 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 53 Chapters By 46 Authors In Parking And The City Show How Reforming Our Misguided And Wrongheaded Parking Policies Can Do A World Of Good.--provided By Publisher. Part I. Remove Off-street Parking Requirements : Truth In Transportation Planning / Donald Shoup -- People, Parking, And Cities / Michael Manville And Donald Shoup -- The High Cost Of Parking Requirements / Donald Shoup -- The Unequal Burden Of Parking Requirements / Donald Shoup -- Parking Mismanagement: An Rx For Congestion / Rachel Weinberger -- The United States Of Parking / Seth Goodman -- The Fiscal And Travel Consequences Of Parking Requirements / Chris Mccahill, Norman Garrick, And Carol Atkinson-palombo -- The Environmental Impacts Of Parking Lots / Emma Kirkpatrick, Am�elie Davis, And Brian Pijanowski -- Parking And Affordable Housing In San Francisco / Bill Chapin, Wenyu Jia And Martin Wachs -- The Unintended Consequences Of New York City's Minimum Parking Requirements / Simon Mcdonnell And Josiah Madar -- The Hidden Cost Of Bundled Parking / C.j. Gabbe And Gregory Pierce -- Parking Policy In Asian Cities: Conventional Bu Instructive / Paul Barter -- Parking Infrastructure And The Environment / Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, And Samer Madanat -- The Parking Glut In Los Angeles / Andrew Fraser, Mikhail Chester, And Juan Matute -- Less Off-street Parking, More Mexico City / Rodrigo Garc�ia Res�endiz And Andr�es Sa�nudo Gavald�on -- From Parking Minimums To Parking Maximums In London / Zhan Guo -- Putting A Cap On Parking Requirements / Donald Shoup -- Parking Requirements And Housing Development In Los Angeles / Michael Manville -- Parking Reforms Made Easy / Richard Willson -- Parking Management For Smart Growth / Richard Willson -- On-street Parking Management Versus Off-street Parking Requirements / Donald Shoup -- Abolishing Minimum Parking Requirements: A Guide For Practitioners / Patrick Siegman -- Buffalo Abandons Parking Requirements / Daniel Baldwin Hess -- Solar Parking Requirements / Donald Shoup -- Part Ii. Charge The Right Prices For On-street Parking : Cruising For Parking / Donald Shoup -- Free Parking Or Free Markets / Donald Shoup -- Informal Parking On Sidewalks: Turning Problems Into Solutions / Donald Shoup -- Progressive Parking Prices / Michael Klein -- Progressive Parking Fines / Donald Shoup -- Disabled Placard Abuse / Michael Manville And Jonathan Williams -- Ending The Abuse Of Disabled Parking Placards / Donald Shoup -- Ending Disabled Placard Abuse At Parking Meters: The Two-tier Solution / Donald Shoup And Fernando Torres-gil -- Parking Charity / Donald Shoup -- Popular Parking Meters / Donald Shoup -- Parking Limits: Lean Demand Management In Berkeley / Elizabeth Deakin -- Sfpark / Jay Primus -- Sfpark: Pricing Parking By Demand / Gregory Pierce And Donald Shoup -- Market-priced Parking In Theory And Practice / Michael Manville And Daniel G. Chatman -- Cruising For Parking: Lessons From San Francisco / Adam Millard-ball, Rachel Weinberger, And Robert Hampshire -- Optimizing The Use Of Public Garages: Pricing Parking By Demand / Gregory Pierce, Hank Willson, And Donald Shoup -- La Express Park / Peer Ghent -- The Politics And Economics Of Parking On Campus / Donald Shoup -- Cashing Out Employer-paid Parking / Donald Shoup -- Part Iii. Parking Benefit Districts : Parking Matters In Old Pasadena / Douglas Kolozsvari And Donald Shoup -- Revitalizing A Downtown With Smart Parking Policies / Dan Zack -- Paid Parking And Free Wi-fi In Ventura / Thomas Mericle -- A Parking Benefit District Grows In Houston / Maria Irshad -- Parking Benefit Districts In Austin / Leah M. Bojo -- Parking Benefit Districts In Mexico City / Rodrigo Garc�ia Res�endiz And Andr�es Sa�nudo Gavald�on -- Parking Benefit Districts In Beijing / Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, And Xin Jiang -- Residential Parking Benefit Districts / Donald Shoup. Edited By Donald Shoup. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.