Donald Shoup - The High Cost of Free Parking

"Donald Shoup is a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose work on the pricing of parking spaces and whether more spaces are good for cities has led to a revolution in ideas about relieving congestion."

New York Times

"This is an extraordinary book. An appropriate descriptive subtitle would be 'Everything you really wanted to know about parking but were afraid to ask!'"

Journal of Urban Design

"A landmark in the annals of urban planning. This important book deserves a prominent spot on any planner's bookshelf. It's brilliant."

Robert Cervero, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

"Imagine an entire book on the length and breadth of parking by an author as facile as James Michener with the insight of Jane Jacobs and the passion of Lewis Mumford and you have Donald Shoup on the subject of parking. This book is destined to become a planning classic."

Martin wachs, FAICP, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

"Parking rock star"

Wall Sreet Journal

"Urban planners and economists should be embarrassed about how little thought we have given to off-street parking requirements. Shoup shows how parking standards have fundamentally shaped our built environment, usually for the worse."

Jos A. Gmez-Ibez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Harvard University

"The Jane Jacobs of parking policy"

Greater Greater Washington

"This meticulously researched book is a must-read for all policymarkers, community groups, planners, and citizens. Donald Shoup tackles head on the 100-year addiction to car travel and does so with enough humor and wit to hold the hope that a cure could lie ahead."

Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor of Architecture, Urban Design, and Planning, Univesity of Washington

"Godfather of parking reform"

Terrapass

"The Master of parking research"

Gainesville Sun

"Convinced that urbanism can emerge in the backwash of sprawl, Shoup contends that if big boxes, malls and even strip malls were allowed to reduce their parking and replace excess spaces with something more useful, suburbaniltes might embark on the greatest land reclamation scheme this side of the Netherlands. He envisions a partment buildings and townhouses spourting on the edges of mall parking lots and thereby creating nearly fully formed neighborhoods in place of vacant asphalt."

In Transition

"Shoup engages with his deceptively weighty topic in a clear and progressive manner accessible to anyone from amateur parking enthusiasts to planning professionals."

Planning Theory and Practice

" [Shoup] provides a wealth of resources, information, and ammunition for this seeking to change parking regulation, plannning, and design paradigms."

Journal of Panning Literature

"Shoup's accomplishment in this book is impressive. He brings to light an often- dismissed topic Parking that has enormous impact on the urban form. I can't think of any other topic in all my reading about urban areas that has been so ignored and yet has such a demostrated potential for imporving urban life."

Books Notes

"Parking god"

LAist

"The hands-down favorite for Top Books status, The High Cost of Free Parking , despite its epic length, undoubtedly deserves high praise. Donald Shoup, FAICP, an urban planning professor at UCLA, presents a tour de force on free parking, a dubious fact of city life planners have taken for granted for years, and which Shoup has studied for decades."

Planetizen

"This book should be required reading for any- one who cares about this nation's cities. Shoup helps us understand how we can use the billions we are spending to store motor vehicles in ways that can solve our parking problems and build healthy communities."

Micheal S. Dukakis, former Governer of Massachusetts; Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University

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First published 2011 by the American Planning Association

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