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1. Donald Shoup makes up for last week with an interesting piece on how America’s tax structure biases employers towards providing parking for their employees, similar to how untaxed employer-provided healthcare shapes that industry. 2. Back in August Randal O’Toole asked for proof that minimum parking requirements force Walmart to build more parking [...] October 20th, 2010 | Tags: Donald Shoup, parking, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith, Urban Planning | Category: parking | 4 comments |
 printable view1. Cap’n Transit weighs in on the ARC debate, and shows that Chris Christie is more interested in shifting resources to his suburban constituents than to cutting spending. Here’s the best part: Editorial board member: What’s the difference between a gas tax hike and a fare hike, besides who it lands on? Christie: [...] October 19th, 2010 | Tags: dc, Donald Shoup, height restriction, New Jersey, Stephen Smith | Category: parking, zoning | 5 comments |
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Cato's DC headquarters I never thought the day would come, but I actually find myself taking issue with Donald Shoup’s recent criticism of the Cato Institute (which Randal O’Toole works for) and its own DC headquarters’ employee parking program. While I agree with Shoup’s more general critique of Cato’s stance on transportation [...] October 13th, 2010 | Tags: dc, parking, Stephen Smith | Category: parking | 8 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith At the risk of beating the parking theme deader than the Ground Zero Mosque, here are some recent parking-related stories published around the world: The NYC DOT’s Park Smart program has been called a success in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, and officials are considering making the program permanent [...] by Stephen Smith Donald Shoup and his arguments about free and underpriced parking have been getting quite a bit of press recently, and it looks like Shoup’s hometown of Los Angeles has surpassed San Francisco (with its SFpark initiative) as the largest city in America to adopt some of his proposals: The yearlong [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: Dr. Shoup, LA, parking, Stephen Smith | Category: parking, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Although we at Market Urbanism are big fans of Donald Shoup’s work on parking minimums, we have to admit that rigorous econometric evidence that parking minimums mandate more parking than the market would otherwise supply has been a bit lacking. Randal O’Toole at The Antiplanner quite rightly asks to see [...] August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: parking, Stephen Smith, tyler cowen | Category: parking, sprawl | 8 comments |
printable viewSandy Ikeda’s latest article at FEE’s “The Freeman” is a great summary of the libertarian sprawl debate. There has been a lot of Internet chatter lately about what libertarians ought to think about urban sprawl and its causes, including pieces by Kevin Carson, Austin Bramwell, Randal O’Toole, and Matthew Yglesias. The title of [...] August 17th, 2010 | Tags: sprawl, zoning | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, parking, planning, sprawl, Transportation, zoning | 11 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Back in February Streetsblog had a good three-part series on planning changes in New York City since the beginning of Michael Bloomberg’s term, and while they had a lot of praise for upzonings that have occurred throughout much of the four urban boroughs, they highlighted minimum parking regulations as the [...] August 16th, 2010 | Tags: New York City, parking, Stephen Smith | Category: parking | 2 comments |
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