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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.
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Preface: A Progress Report on Parking Reforms
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
Afterword: Twenty-first Century Parking Reforms
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