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 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 are 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 51 chapters by 46 authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good.
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Preface. Introduction. PART I. REMOVE OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS Chapter 1. Truth in Transportation Planning Chapter 2. People, Parking, and Cities Chapter 3. The High Cost of Parking Requirements Chapter 4. The Unequal Burden of Parking Requirements Chapter 5. Parking Mismanagement: An Rx for Congestion Chapter 6. The United States of Parking Chapter 7. The Fiscal and Travel Consequences of Parking Requirements Chapter 8. The Environmental Impacts of Parking Lots Chapter 9. Parking and Affordable Housing in San Francisco Chapter 10. The Unintended Consequences of New York City's Parking Requirements Chapter 11. The High Cost of Bundled Parking Chapter 12. Parking Policy in Asian Cities Chapter 13. Parking Infrastructure and the Environment Chapter 14. The Parking Glut in Los Angeles Chapter 15. Less Off-Street Parking, More Mexico City Chapter 16. From Parking Minimums to Parking Maximums in London Chapter 17. Putting a Cap on Parking Requirements Chapter 18. Parking Requirements and Housing Development Chapter 19. Parking Reforms Made Easy Chapter 20. Parking Management for Smart Growth Chapter 21. On-Street Parking Management vs. Off-Street Parking Requirements Chapter 22. Abolishing Parking Requirements: A Guide for Practitioners Chapter 23. Buffalo Abandons Parking Requirements Chapter 24. Solar Parking Requirements PART II. CHARGE MARKET PRICES FOR ON-STREET PARKING Chapter 25. Cruising for Parking Chapter 26. Free Parking or Free Markets Chapter 27. Informal Parking on Sidewalks Chapter 28. Progressive Parking Prices Chapter 29. Progressive Parking Fines Chapter 30. Disabled Parking Abuse Chapter 31. Ending the Abuse of Disabled Parking Placards Chapter 32. Ending Disabled Placard Abuse at Parking Meters: The Two-Tier Solution Chapter 33. Parking Charity Chapter 34. Popular Parking Meters Chapter 35. Parking Limits: Lessons from parking Demand Management in Berkeley Chapter 36. SFpark Chapter 37. SFpark: Pricing Parking by Demand Chapter 38. Did SFpark Work? Chapter 39. Cruising for Parking: Lessons from SFpark Chapter 40. Optimizing the Use of Public Garages: Pricing Parking by Demand Chapter 41. LA Express Park Chapter 42. The Politics and Economics of Parking on Campus Chapter 43. Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking PART III. PARKING BENEFIT DISTRICTS Chapter 44. Parking Matters in Old Pasadena Chapter 45. Revitalizing a Downtown with Smart Parking Policies Chapter 46. Paid Parking and Free Wi-Fi in Ventura Chapter 47. A Parking Benefit District Grows in Houston Chapter 48. The Benefits of Parking Benefit Districts in Austin Chapter 49. Parking Benefit Districts in Mexico City Chapter 50. Parking Benefit Districts in Beijing Chapter 51. Parking Benefit Districts in Residential Neighborhoods Epilogue
