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Irrelevant real estate trends


Earlier this week Wendell Cox wrote a piece at New Geography arguing that projections for increasing demand for multifamily housing relative to single family homes are incorrect. He was criticizing a study by Arthur Nelson that predicts increased demand for multifamily housing relative to single-family housing in California between 2010 and 2035. So far, [...]

The High Cost of Free Parking Preface and Afterword


This is the last post in the series on Donald Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking. Previous can be found here:

Chapters 1 – 4

Chapters 5 – 9

Chapters 10 – 14

Chapters 16 – 18

Chapters 19 – 22

Preface

In these two chapters, which Donald Shoup added for the paperback [...]

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 19-22


This post from the series on The High Cost of Free Parking is reposted from last week because the site’s database caused recent posts to be deleted.

Chapter 19: The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue

In this chapter, Donald Shoup makes the case that passing up the potential revenue source of curb parking doesn’t [...]

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 16 – 18


This post follows on the earlier discussion of the The High Cost of Free Parking.

Chapter 16 — Turning Small Change in Big Changes

Here Donald Shoup gets to the idea of using Business Improvement Districts to manage street parking as Brandon Smith mentioned in the last post’s comments. When parking revenue goes to municipalities’ general funds, [...]

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 10-14


This post follows on the earlier discussion of the The High Cost of Free Parking.

I realized that I left a couple of important points out of the last post. First, Shoup applies the Hippocratic Oath of “first, do no harm,” to parking requirements. What a great way to think about city planning. If this standard [...]

The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 5-9


This post follows on the earlier discussion of the first four chapters of The High Cost of Free Parking. Sorry for the delay on this next section. Work has been getting in the way of reading this parking tome. I will plan to post on chapters 10 – 14 next week on Wednesday.

Chapter [...]

Market Urbanism Book Club


I’m very excited that some of you expressed interest in doing a book club this summer. I think we should start with The High Cost of Free Parking. It’s the longer of the two books, but it looks like the relative beach read.

I am thinking that what makes the most sense is for [...]

More on Parking Prices


At Wabi-sabi, Sandy Ikeda (former Market Urbanism writer) has a great analysis of San Francisco’s pricing for parking. He points out that assigning prices to spots is not equivalent to allowing a market to determine a price. For a real price to emerge capital (the parking space) cannot be state-owned.

Sandy points out that [...]