The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

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One of APA's most popular and influential books is finally in PAPE, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking - namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.

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Discussions on Reddit mentioning this product:

Subreddit	Title	Date
/r/Portland	Has Portland City Hall Learned Its Lesson About Parking Spaces Raising Rents?	Mar 23, 2016
/r/urbanplanning	Why do you guys have a beef with cars and parking lots?	Mar 21, 2016
/r/toronto	Grow up, Toronto. It’s time to let street parking go	Mar 11, 2016
/r/CitiesSkylines	Car Parks, this game needs them in the next expansion	Feb 29, 2016
/r/sanfrancisco	Tech Buses Keep Rolling Another Year	Feb 24, 2016
/r/Austin	Coming soon to Zilker Park	Feb 21, 2016
/r/fargo	I thought this project was dead in the water, but it seems that Kilbourne Group's skyscraper is much closer to being a reality.	Jan 11, 2016
/r/ShitAmericansSay	That's why Americans are so fat, because we have so much cuisine. There's Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Indian, etc. food all on the same block... Whereas people in China only have Ch...	Jan 8, 2016
/r/ireland	St. James's Hospital management attempting to charge staff up to €500 per year to use hospital parking.	Jan 7, 2016
/r/AskMen	What is your radical political idea?	Jan 3, 2016
/r/bayarea	It's cheaper to drive: A problem with regional transit \| 48 hills	Dec 24, 2015
/r/Detroit	[Petition] City of Detroit: Remove Parking Meters on Second	Dec 1, 2015
/r/sandiego	Rents in San Diego	Oct 19, 2015
/r/UCSD	why are UC admins so corrupt	Oct 15, 2015
/r/TrueReddit	Parking spaces affects Housing	Sep 28, 2015
/r/TwinCities	Parking Meters on Grand Ave.	Sep 22, 2015
/r/cuboulder	Why don't they give more parking permits?	Sep 22, 2015
/r/Calgary	Condo tower with no traditional parking sells 90% of units in five days	Sep 17, 2015
/r/gatech	Petition to reinstate free parking on evenings and weekend! Say no to this greedy institution; make them put students above their already full pocketbooks. https://goo.gl/nbB2rI	Aug 28, 2015
/r/ottawa	Citizen Arguments: The problem with bike-helmet laws	Aug 11, 2015
/r/montreal	1200 $ par année pour stationner sur le Plateau	Jul 22, 2015
/r/Seattle	The Rent Really Is Too Damn High: “The high rents and displacement of low- and moderate-price housing in Seattle is the product of too much demand for too little supply.”	Jul 9, 2015
/r/Portland	Large crowd at City-sponsored symposium learns evils of free parking	Jun 30, 2015
/r/socialism	"I have never had anything handed on a plate to me!"(x-post /r/comics)	May 22, 2015
/r/Austin	I am going to start feeding the new parking meters on the East Side, please join me. Fuck the man.	May 16, 2015
/r/Charlotte	NCDOT I-77 Toll Lanes Info Video. I'm more upset than I was before	May 5, 2015
/r/CitiesSkylines	Release: 4x4 Solar Covered Parking	Apr 17, 2015
/r/LosAngeles	KoreaTown without parking	Mar 30, 2015
/r/philadelphia	Camden moving closer to goal of all-parking downtown	Mar 20, 2015
/r/boston	Walsh changes policy, space savers allowed indefinitely	Feb 22, 2015

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