Parking and the City

Description

In 51 chapters by 46 authors Parking and the City shows how reforming parking policies can discourage sprawl, while enhancing walkability and local economic development.

Over a decade ago, author Donald Shoup, wrote the widely influential book, The High Cost of Free Parking. In it he reviewed the current state of public parking and made three now widely accepted recommendations for reform:

• Remove off-street parking requirements,
• Charge the right prices for on-street parking,
• Spend the parking revenue to improve public services on the metered streets.

Now, Shoup and an expert team review his recommendations and report on the impacts of cities implementing these reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence that Shoup’s policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic but instead are practical and realistic and have made positive improvements in cities across the nation.

The three major sections of Parking and the City are organized around each of one of Shoup’s recommendations.

The first of the three sections focuses on the impacts of off-street parking and its corresponding policies and regulations.

The second section, focusing on pricing, largely deals with the impacts of on-street parking demand management.

The third section focuses on case studies of Parking Benefit Districts (PBD), where parking reform revenue is directed into local investments via projects such as wifi, street planting or other downtown improvements.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Remove Off-Street Parking Requirements
  1. Truth in Transportation Planning
     Donald Shoup
  2. People, Parking, and Cities
     Michael Manville and Donald Shoup
  3. The High Cost of Parking Requirements
     Donald Shoup
  4. The Unequal Burden of Parking Requirements
     Donald Shoup
  5. Parking Mismanagement: An Rx for Congestion
     Rachel Weinberger
  6. The United States of Parking
     Seth Goodman
  7. The Fiscal and Travel Consequences of Parking Requirements
     Chris McCahill, Norman Garrick, and Carol Atkinson-Palombo
  8. The Environmental Impacts of Parking Lots
     Emma Kirkpatrick, Amélie Davis, and Brian Pijanowski
  9. Parking and Affordable Housing in San Francisco
     Wenyu Jia and Martin Wachs
  10. The Unintended Consequences of New York City’s Parking Requirements
      Simon McDonnell and Josiah Madar
  11. The High Cost of Bundled Parking
      C.J. Gabbe and Gregory Pierce
  12. Parking Policy in Asian Cities
      Paul Barter
  13. Parking Infrastructure and the Environment
      Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, and Samer Madanat
  14. The Parking Glut in Los Angeles
      Andrew Fraser, Mikhail Chester, and Juan Matute
  15. Less Off-Street Parking, More Mexico City
      Rodrigo Garcia Resendiz and Andres Sañudo Gavaldon
  16. From Parking Minimums to Parking Maximums in London
      Zhan Guo
  17. Putting a Cap on Parking Requirements
      Donald Shoup
  18. Parking Requirements and Housing Development
      Michael Manville
  19. Parking Reforms Made Easy
      Richard Willson
  20. Parking Management for Smart Growth
      Richard Willson
  21. On-Street Parking Management vs. Off-Street Parking Requirements
      Donald Shoup
  22. Abolishing Parking Requirements: A Guide for Practitioners
      Patrick Siegman
  23. Buffalo Abandons Parking Requirements
      Daniel Hess
  24. Solar Parking Requirements
      Donald Shoup
• Part II. Charge Market Prices For On-Street Parking
  25. Cruising for Parking
      Donald Shoup
  26. Free Parking or Free Markets
      Donald Shoup
  27. Informal Parking on Sidewalks
      Donald Shoup
  28. Progressive Parking Prices
      Michael Klein
  29. Progressive Parking Fines
      Donald Shoup
  30. Disabled Parking Abuse
      Michael Manville and Jonathan Williams
  31. Ending the Abuse of Disabled Parking Placards
      Donald Shoup
  32. Ending Disabled Placard Abuse at Parking Meters: The Two-Tier Solution
      Donald Shoup and Fernando Torres-Gil
  33. Parking Charity
      Donald Shoup
  34. Popular Parking Meters
      Donald Shoup
  35. Parking Limits: Lessons from parking Demand Management in BerkeleyElizabeth Deakin
  36. SFpark
      Jay Primus
  37. SFpark: Pricing Parking by Demand
      Gregory Pierce and Donald Shoup
  38. Did SFpark Work?
      Michael Manville and Daniel Chatman
  39. Cruising for Parking: Lessons from SFpark
      Adam Millard-Ball, Rachel Weinberger, and Robert Hampshire
  40. Optimizing the Use of Public Garages: Pricing Parking by Demand
      Gregory Pierce, Hank Willson, and Donald Shoup
  41. LA Express Park
      Peer Ghent
  42. The Politics and Economics of Parking on Campus
      Donald Shoup
  43. Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking
      Donald Shoup
• Part III. Parking Benefit Districts
  44. Parking Matters in Old Pasadena
      Douglas Kolozsvari and Donald Shoup
  45. Revitalizing a Downtown with Smart Parking Policies
      Dan Zack
  46. Paid Parking and Free Wi-Fi in Ventura
      Thomas Mericle
  47. A Parking Benefit District Grows in Houston
      Maria Irshad
  48. The Benefits of Parking Benefit Districts in Austin
      Leah Bojo
  49. Parking Benefit Districts in Mexico City
      Rodrigo Garcia Resendiz and Andres Sañudo Gavaldon
  50. Parking Benefit Districts in Beijing
      Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang
  51. Parking Benefit Districts in Residential Neighborhoods
      Donald Shoup
• Epilogue

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.