The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition

ISBN-13: 9781932364965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 808 str.

Donald Shoup

Opis

One of APA's most popular and influential titles is finally in paperback, with a new preface and afterword by the author. In this landmark treatise, Shoup argues that free parking contributes to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Free-parking mandates intended to alleviate congestion end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our sprawling cities suit cars more than people, and why American motor vehicles now consume an eighth of the world's oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor proposes new avenues to regulate parking--measures he says will make parking easier and driving less necessary. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.

Spis treści

Preface , The Twenty-first Century Parking Problem , Planning for Free Parking , Unnatural Selection , The Pseudoscience of Planning for Parking , An Analogy: Ancient Astronomy , A Great Planning Disaster , The Cost of Required Parking Spaces , Putting the Cost of Free Parking in Perspective , An Allegory: Minimum Telephone Requirements , Public Parking in Lieu of Private Parking , Reduce Demand Rather than Increase Supply , Cruising for Parking , Cruising , The Right Price for Curb Parking , Choosing to Cruise , California Cruising , Cashing in on Curb Parking , Buying Time at the Curb , Turning Small Change into Big Changes , Taxing Foreigners Living Abroad , Let Prices Do the Planning , The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue , Unbundled Parking , Time for a Paradigm Shift , Conclusion , Changing the Future , The Practice of Parking Requirements , Nationwide Transportation Surveys , The Language of Parking , The Calculus of Driving, Parking, and Walking , The Price of Land and the Cost of Parking , People, Parking, and Cities , Converting Traffic Congestion into Cash , The Vehicles of Nations , Afterword Twenty-First Century Parking Reforms

O autorze

Donald Shoup