The High Cost Of Free Parking

Donald C. Shoup

Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2005 - Architecture - 734 pages

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking for every new building. The resulting cost? Today we see sprawling cities that are better suited to cars than people and a nationwide fleet of motor vehicles that consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. Donald Shoup contends in The High Cost of Free Parking that parking is sorely misunderstood and mismanaged by planners, architects, and politicians. He proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking so that Americans can stop paying for free parking's hidden costs.

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Review: The High Cost of Free Parking

User Review  - Phyllis - Goodreads

This is book has made me a convert to a somewhat radical view of parking, if you can imagine such a thing, especially for a city dweller, that free parking is a fundamental problem in the US I've even ...

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User Review  - Christopher - Goodreads

Thorough. Perhaps too thorough. Got the basics of the thesis early on, and was convinced before I was halfway through. Yes, minimum off-street parking requirements and free curb parking are bad for a ...

About the author

Donald C. Shoup, a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, is professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The High Cost Of Free Parking
• Author: Donald C. Shoup
• Contributor: American Planning Association
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2005
• ISBN: 1884829988, 9781884829987
• Length: 734 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / General; Transportation / General