The High Cost of Free Parking

Donald C. Shoup

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

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate co

Bibliographic information

• Title: The High Cost of Free Parking
• Author: Donald C. Shoup
• Contributor: American Planning Association
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2005
• ISBN: 0367330016, 9780367330019
• Length: 734 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Landscape; Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Space Science / Astronomy; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Transportation / Automotive / General; Transportation / General