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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition Audiobook, by Donald Shoup Play Audiobook Sample

The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition Audiobook

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Read By: Mike Chamberlain Publisher: Recorded Books: Gildan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 15.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 11.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781469098227

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

34

Longest Chapter Length:

58:55 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:54 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:59 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking—namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.

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About Donald Shoup

Donald Shoup is a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate in economics from Yale and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

About Mike Chamberlain

Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer in Los Angeles whose audiobook narration has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. His voice credits range from radio commercials and television narration to animation and video game characters. Stage trained at Boston College, he has performed works from Shakespeare and the classics to contemporary drama and comedy.