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The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 19-22

August 7, 2012 By Emily Hamilton

This post from the series on Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking is reposted from last week because the site's database caused recent posts to be deleted. Chapter 19: The Ideal Source of Local Public RevenueIn this chapter, Donald Shoup makes the case that passing up the potential … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Culture & Books, parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 16 – 18

July 20, 2012 By Emily Hamilton

This post follows on the earlier discussion of Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking. Chapter 16 -- Turning Small Change in Big ChangesHere Donald Shoup gets to the idea of using Business Improvement Districts to manage street parking as Brandon Smith mentioned in the last post's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Culture & Books, Economics, parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 10-14

July 9, 2012 By Emily Hamilton

This post follows on the earlier discussion of the The High Cost of Free Parking.I realized that I left a couple of important points out of the last post. First, Shoup applies the Hippocratic Oath of "first, do no harm," to parking requirements. What a great way to think about city planning. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Culture & Books, parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 5-9

June 27, 2012 By Emily Hamilton

This post follows on the earlier discussion of the first four chapters of The High Cost of Free Parking.Chapter 5- A Great Planning DisasterShoup sets up parking requirements as a great planning disaster. If an individual developer chose to dedicate more of his land to parking than his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture & Books, parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 1-4

June 15, 2012 By Emily Hamilton

Here's the first installation of Market Urbanism Book Club, covering the first four chapters of Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking. If you've read the book previously or are reading along, please share your thoughts and questions in the comments.Chapter 1:Shoup outlines the unusual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture & Books, parking, Transportation Tagged With: Donald Shoup

A far-too-long rebuttal of Randal O’Toole on parking

April 7, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Donald Shoup and Randal O'Toole – they just can't get enough of each other! Donald Shoup, you may recall, is the granddaddy of free market parking policy, and Randal O'Toole is the self-styled Antiplanner. Though they both claim to be libertarians, they seem to have some pretty fundamental … [Read more...]

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Yet another town moves from parking minimums to maximums with no stop in between

January 10, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Despite its ridiculously biased opening sentence ("Fairfax County residents will have a harder time finding a free parking space in some neighborhoods if transportation planners get their way"), the Washington Post actually has a relatively informative article on potential new parking maximums in … [Read more...]

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November 12, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Recently I've been delaying posting a few things because I wanted to wait till I had more time to cover them, but I'm realizing that I'll probably have new things to write about on the 15th (which is when regular posting will hopefully resume), so have at it – your first ever premium link … [Read more...]

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