The High Cost of Free Parking
Distributed for American Planning Association
752 pages
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halftones, 78 tables, 74 figures
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7 x 10
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© 2005
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. The Twenty-First Century Parking Problem
Part I: Planning for Free Parking
2. Unnatural Selection
3. The Pseudoscience of Planning for Parking
4. An Analogy: Ancient Astronomy
5. A Great Planning Disaster
6. The Cost of Required Parking Spaces
7. Putting the Cost of Free Parking in Perspective
8. An Allegory: Minimum Telephone Requirements
9. Public Parking in Lieu of Private Parking
10. Reduce Demand Rather than Increase Supply
Part II: Cruising for Parking
11. Cruising
12. The Right Price for Curb Parking
13. Choosing to Cruise
14. California Cruising
Part III: Cashing in on Curb Parking
15. Buying Time at the Curb
16. Turning Small Change into Big Changes
17. Taxing Foreigners Living Abroad
18. Let Prices Do the Planning
19. The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue
20. Unbundled Parking
21. Time for a Paradigm Shift
Part IV: Conclusion
22. Changing the Future
Appendix A: The Practice of Parking Requirements
Appendix B: Nationwide Transportation Surveys
Appendix C: The Language of Parking
Appendix D: The Calculus of Driving, Parking, and Walking
Appendix E: The Price of Land and the Cost of Parking
Appendix F: People, Parking, and Cities
Appendix G: Converting Traffic Congestion into Cash
Appendix H: The Vehicles of Nations
References
Index
Tables
Figures
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