{"id":727,"date":"2012-07-02T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=727"},"modified":"2012-07-02T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T19:00:54","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e28-no-such-thing-as-free-parking-with-donald-shoup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E28: No Such Thing as Free Parking with Donald Shoup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-728\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"LowRes Shoup on Velib bike in Paris\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/LowRes-Shoup-on-Velib-bike-in-Paris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/LowRes-Shoup-on-Velib-bike-in-Paris.jpg 270w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/LowRes-Shoup-on-Velib-bike-in-Paris-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down at UCLA with urban planning professor <a href=\"http:\/\/shoup.bol.ucla.edu\/\">Donald Shoup<\/a>, author of <em>The High Cost of Free Parking<\/em>\u00a0and the man who&#8217;s made us aware of the fact that our cities&#8217; problems come not from too little parking, but too much. They discuss the academic tendency to believe, without verification, anything bad about Los Angeles; how this city became the densest car-oriented one in America, as well as the most car-oriented dense one; falsely perceived parking &#8220;shortages,&#8221; how they led to minimum free parking requirements, and how those have worsened our urban experience; Los Angeles&#8217; parking requirement-skirting Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, which made even monstrosities like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1100_Wilshire\">1100 Wilshire<\/a> usable; the development of technology needed to allow parking prices to respond to demand, and how it works in systems like San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sfpark.org\/about-the-project\/\">SFPark<\/a>; the importance of treating parking space just like any other real estate, and how irresponsible we&#8217;ve been about that; how Ventura streets got free wi-fi through their parking program; what ruined Westwood, and what parking policy had to do with it; how he realized parking mattered so much, and why the general public has only begun to; the necessity of humor when you&#8217;re writing about parking for 800 pages; and how cycling makes it users happier than any other mode of transportation (perhaps because of its lack of parking complications).<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e28-no-such-thing-as-free-parking-with-donald-shoup\">here<\/a>\u00a0or on iTunes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at UCLA with urban planning professor Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking\u00a0and the man who&#8217;s made us aware of the fact that our cities&#8217; problems come not from too little parking, but too much. 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