534 Pages
    by Routledge

    534 Pages
    by Routledge

    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

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 2. People, Parking, and Cities

    Michael Manville and Donald Shoup

    Chapter 3. The High Cost of Parking Requirements

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 4. The Unequal Burden of Parking Requirements

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 5. Parking Mismanagement: An Rx for Congestion

    Rachel Weinberger

    Chapter 6. The United States of Parking

    Seth Goodman

    Chapter 7. The Fiscal and Travel Consequences of Parking Requirements

    Chris McCahill, Norman Garrick, and Carol Atkinson-Palombo

    Chapter 8. The Environmental Impacts of Parking Lots

    Emma Kirkpatrick, Amélie Davis, and Brian Pijanowski

    Chapter 9. Parking and Affordable Housing in San Francisco

    Wenyu Jia and Martin Wachs

    Chapter 10. The Unintended Consequences of New York City’s Parking Requirements

    Simon McDonnell and Josiah Madar

    Chapter 11. The High Cost of Bundled Parking

    C.J. Gabbe and Gregory Pierce

    Chapter 12. Parking Policy in Asian Cities

    Paul Barter

    Chapter 13. Parking Infrastructure and the Environment

    Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, and Samer Madanat

    Chapter 14. The Parking Glut in Los Angeles

    Andrew Fraser, Mikhail Chester, and Juan Matute

    Chapter 15. Less Off-Street Parking, More Mexico City

    Rodrigo Garcia Resendiz and Andres Sañudo Gavaldon

    Chapter 16. From Parking Minimums to Parking Maximums in London

    Zhan Guo

    Chapter 17. Putting a Cap on Parking Requirements

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 18. Parking Requirements and Housing Development

    Michael Manville

    Chapter 19. Parking Reforms Made Easy

    Richard Willson

    Chapter 20. Parking Management for Smart Growth

    Richard Willson

    Chapter 21. On-Street Parking Management vs. Off-Street Parking Requirements

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 22. Abolishing Parking Requirements: A Guide for Practitioners

    Patrick Siegman

    Chapter 23. Buffalo Abandons Parking Requirements

    Daniel Hess

    Chapter 24. Solar Parking Requirements

    Donald Shoup

    PART II. CHARGE MARKET PRICES FOR ON-STREET PARKING

    Chapter 25. Cruising for Parking

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 26. Free Parking or Free Markets

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 27. Informal Parking on Sidewalks

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 28. Progressive Parking Prices

    Michael Klein

    Chapter 29. Progressive Parking Fines

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 30. Disabled Parking Abuse

    Michael Manville and Jonathan Williams

    Chapter 31. Ending the Abuse of Disabled Parking Placards

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 32. Ending Disabled Placard Abuse at Parking Meters: The Two-Tier Solution

    Donald Shoup and Fernando Torres-Gil

    Chapter 33. Parking Charity

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 34. Popular Parking Meters

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 35. Parking Limits: Lessons from parking Demand Management in Berkeley

    Elizabeth Deakin

    Chapter 36. SFpark

    Jay Primus

    Chapter 37. SFpark: Pricing Parking by Demand

    Gregory Pierce and Donald Shoup

    Chapter 38. Did SFpark Work?

    Michael Manville and Daniel Chatman

    Chapter 39. Cruising for Parking: Lessons from SFpark

    Adam Millard-Ball, Rachel Weinberger, and Robert Hampshire

    Chapter 40. Optimizing the Use of Public Garages: Pricing Parking by Demand

    Gregory Pierce, Hank Willson, and Donald Shoup

    Chapter 41. LA Express Park

    Peer Ghent

    Chapter 42. The Politics and Economics of Parking on Campus

    Donald Shoup

    Chapter 43. Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking

    Donald Shoup

    PART III. PARKING BENEFIT DISTRICTS

    Chapter 44. Parking Matters in Old Pasadena

    Douglas Kolozsvari and Donald Shoup

    Chapter 45. Revitalizing a Downtown with Smart Parking Policies

    Dan Zack

    Chapter 46. Paid Parking and Free Wi-Fi in Ventura

    Thomas Mericle

    Chapter 47. A Parking Benefit District Grows in Houston

    Maria Irshad

    Chapter 48. The Benefits of Parking Benefit Districts in Austin

    Leah Bojo

    Chapter 49. Parking Benefit Districts in Mexico City

    Rodrigo Garcia Resendiz and Andres Sañudo Gavaldon

    Chapter 50. Parking Benefit Districts in Beijing

    Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang

    Chapter 51. Parking Benefit Districts in Residential Neighborhoods

    Donald Shoup

    Epilogue

    Biography

    Donald Shoup, FAICP, is Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

    "This book is a well-crafted and appropriate follow-up to Shoup’s original theoretical bombshell, updating its content for a new political climate and policy sector receptiveness to parking reform relative to that of over 15 years prior… Shoup’s sustained energy for and embrace of the field suggest we are likely to see new drives to progress the work further. Certainly, Parking and the City symbolizes something of a ‘coming-of-age’ for progressive parking research, revealing how far 21st century attitudes to and frameworks of urban parking have transformed and how they now sit within a new political landscape." –Planning Theory and Practice, 2019, Vol. 20, No. 3, Review by Rebecca Clements

    "In his landmark book, The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup, FAICP, argued that reducing subsidies for parking would reduce air pollution and traffic congestion as well as improve land use... In a follow-up book, Parking and the City, Shoup and 46 other contributors examined the results of these reforms in practice and found important benefits for cities, the economy, and the environment."
    -American Planning Association

    "In recognizing Shoup's decades-long work to improve transportation and land use by reforming cities' parking policies, the American Planning Association placed him among other well-known authors including Rachel Carson and Jane Jacobs."
    -UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

    "Shoup's writing is as incisive and entertaining as ever. The imperative of parking reform—in a year of wildfires, floods, and transit systems choking on lack of revenue and riders—has never been clearer. Parking and the City is a perfect follow up to a classic work."
    -Planetizen

    "For those who seek to manage and reform parking—and for urban planners, developers, transportation specialists, and policymakers—Parking and the City is an indispensable resource."
    -Public Square: A CNU Journal

    "Don Shoup has done more to revolutionize the way we think about parking than anybody on the planet. His latest book tells the story of the impact his ideas are having on the subject. It is a must read for anybody who cares about the future of our cities."
    -Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University, USA

    "Parking and the City then, achieves on several levels. While the book freely admits that parking is
    in no way one of the most ‘glamourous’ or interesting issues for consideration by planners and urban designers, the volume nevertheless approaches the subject in a highly lucid and engaging way. The arguments presented in the first and second sections do good work at turning the established assumptions of planning instruments and city economics related to parking on their head, highlighting the hidden inequalities within. The book also delivers well in its suggestions for how interested readers might advocate for ‘something better’ in parking in their own towns and cities."
    -Michael Kordas, University of Glasgow

    "Ultimately, Parking and the City ably meets its objectives to provide, in a single volume, a compendium of the latest insights on parking management, curated by the world's lead­ing parking scholar. The book could readily be used by prac­titioners seeking clear evidence supporting the reforms they seek to implement, and it would also function well as a text­book for a parking policy class."
    -Andrew Mondschein, University of Virginia

    "Scoup's writing is as incisive and entertaining as ever. The imperative of parking reform - in a year of wildfires, floods, and transit systems choking on lack of revenue and riders - has never been clearer. Parking and the City is a perfect follow up to a classic work."
    -Planetizen's Top 10 Urban Planning Books - 2018

    "Parking and the City is a valuable contribution to a field that has been greatly shaped by Shoup himself. Shoup’s intention is to provide a shorter and updated version of his prior work, a volume that combines policy arguments like those found in The High Cost of Free Parking with real-world examples of the sort of parking policy decisions that are made every day by city councils and municipal governments. Shoup has achieved that goal. Parking and the City is an accessible, interesting, and comprehensive treatment of parking policy that will provide the general reader with a sound understanding of parking policy as it stands in the United States today."

    -Eric Childress, George Mason University