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The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition
Donald Shoup
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Paperback. Num Pages: 776 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 154 x 39. Weight in Grams: 890.
One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for ... Read more
One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
808
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781932364965
SKU
V9781932364965
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-50
About Donald Shoup
Donald Shoup
Reviews for The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition
Donald Shoup is like Jane Jacobs. He starts by exposing the blind spot of a generation and then marshals a new generation of urbanists to make things right. Now that The High Cost of Free Parking is in paperback, I look forward to replacing all the dog-eared copies that have gone missing from our office library.-Paul Steely White, Executive Director, ... Read more