The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Parking is at the heart of every fight about how we build our cities and towns, with effects that go far beyond transportation. Minimum parking requirements — laws that dictate how many parking spaces are required for various types of buildings and businesses — make housing more expensive, raise the price of goods and services and exacerbate sprawl, making congestion and the climate crisis much, much worse. Thankfully, a movement is afoot to end parking minimums, inspired by the work of Donald Shoup.
Shoup, the Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, is the author of the 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking. It’s an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the problems with parking. Professor Shoup — aka the Shoup Dogg — joins us for a spirited conversation about how to win what he calls “the war on parking subsidies.”
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LINKS:
Learn all about Donald Shoup at ShoupDogg.com.
Read The High Cost of Free Parking.
Join The Parking Reform Network and end parking requirements where you live.
Donald Shoup gets animated on Adam Ruins Everything.
This episode was produced by Doug Gordon, edited by Ali Lemer, and recorded by Josh Wilcox of the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Our logo was designed by Dani Finkel of Crucial D Designs.
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| 1:09.1 | parking requirements Parking requirements are more like astrology than like astronomy. I mean you might well look at the signs of the zodiac to say how many parking spaces are required but you have to do it. |
| 1:15.0 | Everyone wants to park free including you and me. |
| 1:20.0 | This is the war on cars. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Doug Gordon. This is the War on Cars. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm Doug Gordon. |
| 1:23.8 | Nearly every fight over how we use our streets |
| 1:29.2 | comes down to one thing. |
| 1:31.4 | Parking. |
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