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Hope for Parking Reform NFT
Own an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) of this special edition Hope for Parking Reform poster. Inspired the Obama Hope poster, this Donald Shoup poster is a must have for fellow parking and planning nerds.
Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. His research has focused on parking, transportation, public finance, and land economics. In his 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup recommended that cities should (1) charge fair market prices for curb parking, (2) spend the meter revenue to improve public services in the metered areas, and (3) remove off-street parking requirements. In his 2018 edited book, Parking and the City, Shoup and 45 other academic and practicing planners examined the results where cities have adopted these policies. The successful outcomes show this trio of reforms may be the simplest, cheapest, and fastest way to improve city life, protect the environment, and promote social justice.
Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and an Honorary Professor at the Beijing Transportation Research Center. He has received the American Planning Association’s National Excellence Award for a Planning Pioneer and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Distinguished Educator Award.
As heard in “E33: An Interview with Donald Shoup and a Conversation about Parking Minimums”.
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The Quirky World of Parking Book
Interested in learning about a business that many people love to hate? Then go on the life journey of a 40-year veteran of the parking business who shares the many highs and lows in this quirky profession that we all deal with everyday. Larry J. Cohen, CAPP will provide you with a parking primer, interlaced with crazy stories that will leave you wanting more. Cohen's been responsible for managing parking at universities, hospitals, and a municipality, including managing parking during the inauguration of Presidents Bush and Obama in Washington D.C. Catch a glimpse as he takes you behind the scenes of running a parking program, deals with the politics of parking, and answers such burning questions as “can you get out of paying a parking ticket?”
Use code PARKINGPOD for a 20% discount.
As heard in “E45: An Interview with Larry Cohen and a Conversation about The Quirky World of Parking”.
New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies Book
New transportation technologies can expand our world. During the last century, motorized modes increased our mobility by an order of magnitude, providing large benefits, but also imposing huge costs on individuals and communities. Faster and more expensive modes were favored over those that are more affordable, efficient, and healthy. As new transportation innovations become available, from e-scooters to autonomous cars, how do we make decisions that benefit our communities? In New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies, transportation expert Todd Litman examines 12 emerging transportation modes and services that are likely to significantly affect our lives: bike- and carsharing, micro-mobilities, ridehailing and micro-transit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management.
Use code LITMAN for a 20% discount.
As heard in “E56: An Interview with Todd Litman and a Conversation about New Mobilities”.
A Guide to Parking Book
Many parking professionals have lamented that there is no textbook for our industry—until now. A Guide to Parking provides information on the current state of parking, providing professionals and students with an overview of major areas of the parking, transportation, and mobility industry, punctuated by brief program examples. More than 30 subject matter experts and many of our dedicated volunteers contributed chapters on their specific area of expertise for a comprehensive volume about parking. A Guide to Parking approaches the industry from a broad perspective, first providing an overview of the industry, the various frameworks that parking relates to, and then more specific aspects of the industry.
Published by IPMI, a strategic partner of The Parking Podcast.
As heard in “E27: An Interview with Rachel Yoka and a Conversation about APO”.
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot
Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don't resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the advent of the car, we have deformed--and in some cases demolished--our homes and our cities in a Sisyphean quest for cheap and convenient car storage. As a result, much of the nation's most valuable real estate is now devoted exclusively to empty and idle vehicles, even as so many Americans struggle to find affordable housing. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, patterns of traffic and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, the quality of public space, and even the course of floodwaters. Can this really be the best use of our finite resources and space? Why have we done this to the places we love? Is parking really more important than anything else?
As heard in “E94: An Interview with Henry Grabar and a Conversation about Paved Paradise”.
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More Stories from The Quirky World of Parking
More Stories from The Quirky World of Parking” is brought to you by Larry J. Cohen, CAPP, a 40-year veteran of the industry who has led parking operations at some of the country’s most prestigious programs and for the past decade as the Executive Director of the Lancaster Parking Authority in bucolic Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
But don’t let the setting in Amish Country fool you. The continuation of stories will make you laugh and downright shock you when people are confronted with the agency everyone loves to hate.
Use code PARKINGPOD for a 20% discount.
As heard in “E45: An Interview with Larry Cohen and a Conversation about The Quirky World of Parking”.
Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun
In Start-Up City, Klein, with David Vega-Barachowitz, demonstrates how to affect big, directional change in cities—and how to do it fast. Klein's objective is to inspire what he calls “public entrepreneurship,” a start-up-pace energy within the public sector, brought about by leveraging the immense resources at its disposal. Klein offers guidance for cutting through the morass, and a roadmap for getting real, meaningful projects done quickly and having fun while doing it.
This book is for anyone who wants to change the way we live in cities without waiting for the glacial pace of change in government.
As heard in “E64: An Interview with Gabe Klein and a Conversation about Cities”.