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"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,...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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 important parking reforms: (1) remove off-street parking requirements, (2) charge the right prices for |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 513 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138497030 (hardback) : 1138497037 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HE336 |
| CLC: | U491.7 |
| Call Number: | U491.7/P247-1 |