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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About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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 lead ing parking scholar. The book could readily be used by prac titioners seeking clear evidence supporting the reforms they seek to implement, and it would also function well as a text book 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

Book Information
ISBN 9781138497122
Author Donald Shoup
Format Paperback
Page Count 514
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 718g