| Description |
1 online resource (809 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: A Progress Report on Parking Reforms -- 1. Set the Right Price for Curb Parking -- 2. Return Parking Revenue to Pay for Local Public Services -- 3. Remove Minimum Parking Requirements -- A Quiet Revolution in Parking Policies -- 1. The Twenty-First Century Parking Problem -- The Car Explosion -- The Commons Problem -- Skewed Travel Choices -- Cures That Kill -- The Twenty-First Century Parking Solution -- Part I: Planning for Free Parking -- 2. Unnatural Selection |
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The Genesis of Parking RequirementsHuddled Masses Yearning to Park Free -- Planning without Prices -- Planning without Theory -- First Strategy: Copy Other Cities -- Second Strategy: Consult IÎÞÎ#x95; Data -- Five Easy Reforms -- Conclusion: The Immaculate Conception of Parking Demand -- 3. The Pseudoscience of Planning for Parking -- Three-Step Process -- Circular Logic -- Estimating Demand without Prices -- Professional Confidence Trick -- Planners in Denial -- Parochial Policies -- Mobility versus Proximity -- Systemwide Effects of Parking Requirements |
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Parking Spaces Required for a Change of Land UseQuantity versus Quality -- Conclusion: An Elaborate Structure with No Foundation -- 4. An Analogy: Ancient Astronomy -- A Parallel Universe -- The Muddle Is the Message -- 5. A Great Planning Disaster -- Bundled Parking and the Decision to Drive -- Distorted Urban Form -- Degraded Urban Design -- Higher Housing Costs -- Paralysis by Parking Requirements -- Limits on Homeownership -- Damage to the Urban Economy -- Harm to the Central Business District -- Harm to Low-Income Families -- Price Discrimination |
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Prices and PreferencesPrecedent Coagulates into Tradition -- An Analogy : Bloodletting -- Conclusion: First, Do No Harm -- 6. The Cost of Required Parking Spaces -- How Much Does a Parking Space Cost? -- Monthly Cost of a Parking Space -- External Costs of a Parking Space -- Conclusion: The High Cost of Required Parking Spaces -- 7. Putting the Cost of Free Parking in Perspective -- Total Subsidy for Parking -- Capital Cost of the Parking Supply -- New Parking Spaces Compared with New Cars -- Free Parking Compared with the Cost of Driving to Work |
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Parking Subsidies Compared with Congestion TollsSimple Arithmetic -- Conclusion: A Great Planning Disaster -- 8. An Allegory: Minimum Telephone Requirements -- 9. Public Parking in Lieu of Private Parking -- Benefits of In-Lieu Fees -- Concerns about In-Lieu Fees -- How Do Cities Set the In-Lieu Fees? -- Why Pay the Fee rather than Provide the Parking? -- The Impact Fees Implicit in Parking Requirements -- Conclusion: The High Cost of Parking Requirements -- 10. Reduce Demand Rather than Increase Supply -- Transit Passes in Lieu of Parking Spaces |
| Summary |
"Free parking isn't really free. In fact, the average parking space costs more than the average car. Initially, developers pay for the required parking, but soon tenants do, and then their customers, and so on, until the cost of parking has diffused throughout the economy. When we shop, eat in a restaurant, or see a movie, we pay for parking indirectly because its cost is included in the price of everything from hamburgers to housing. The total subsidy for parking is staggering, about the size of the Medicare or national defense budgets. But free parking has other costs: It distorts transportation choices, warps urban form, and degrades the environment." "This book unravels current parking policies and proposes sensible, fair alternatives that will free us from the high cost of free parking."--Jacket |
| Notes |
""Parking Cash Out in Lieu of Parking Spaces"" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-711) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Automobile parking -- Economic aspects
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Automobile parking -- Economic aspects
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Straßenverkehr
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Parkplatz
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Kosten
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Strassenverkehr.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351178068 |
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1351178067 |
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