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Shoup, Donald The High Cost of Free Parking.(Book review)

Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Publication Date: 22-JUN-06
Format: Online - approximately 773 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Shoup, Donald The High Cost of Free Parking Chicago: Planners Press, 2005 ISBN 1-884829-98-8 733 pp.

There are few planning decisions with more unintended consequences than those regarding the supply, price and management of motor vehicle parking. These decisions directly affect land use:...

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...incremental increases in parking supply result in more pavement and more dispersed development, and make urban infill relatively more costly than suburban development, stimulating sprawl. Abundant, free vehicle parking is a subsidy that significantly increases automobile ownership and use, and therefore traffic problems. It tends to be unfair and regressive, forcing people who own fewer than average vehicles to cross-subsidize those who own more than average vehicles, and reducing housing affordability.

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