Download or read book High Cost of Free Parking written by Donald Shoup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, 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 cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. The author proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking.
Download or read book Parking and the City written by Donald Shoup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Read more about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51 by copying the link below into your browser. https://www.routledge.com/posts/13972
Download or read book Insights Into Major Urban Development Action Grant Issues written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parking Management Best Practices written by Todd Litman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a blueprint for developing an integrated parking plan. It explains how to determine parking supply and affect parking demand, as well as how to calculate parking facility costs. It also offers information about shared parking, parking maximums, financial incentives, tax reform, pricing methods, and other management techniques. What types of locations benefit from parking management? Places with perceived parking problems. Areas with rapidly expanding population, business activity, or traffic. Commercial districts and other places with compact land-use patterns. Urban areas in need of redevelopment and infill. Places with high levels of walking or public transit or places that want to encourage those modes. Districts where parking problems hinder economic development. Areas with high land values Neighborhoods concerned with equity, including fairness to nondrivers. Places with environmental concerns. Unique landscapes or historic districts in need of preservation,"
Download or read book The Dimensions of Parking written by Urban Land Institute and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1983 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parking Study Manual written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book Geography Of Nowhere written by James Howard Kunstler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-07-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs.
Download or read book Walkable City written by Jeff Speck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design
Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Establishment of Parking Facilities in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Establishment of Parking Facilities in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Business and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2769, to establish a Parking Advisory Council and D.C. Parking Board to facilitate the construction, provision and regulation of parking in D.C. Includes reports "Parking in the City Center," by Wilbur Smith and Assocs. (p. 257-409); and "Fringe Parking, National Capitol Region," by Alan M. Voorhees and Assocs. (p. 597-745).
Download or read book Establishment of Parking Facilities in D C written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2769, to establish a Parking Advisory Council and D.C. Parking Board to facilitate the construction, provision and regulation of parking in D.C. Includes reports "Parking in the City Center," by Wilbur Smith and Assocs. (p. 257-409); and "Fringe Parking, National Capitol Region," by Alan M. Voorhees and Assocs. (p. 597-745).
Download or read book Small Town Rules written by Barry J. Moltz and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches large businesses to use word-of-mouth and reputation-building to gain a loyal customer base in the way small businesses do.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Issues and Answers written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
