Donald C. Shoup

Wow! It took me an entire month to read this book. I had read so many other books about parking and cars and they all mentioned this book and I can see why. This is seriously like the bible of cars and parking. I learned so much from it and I think Donald provides a lot of really good evidence showing why parking is an issue and why it doesn't have to be by making smarter choices about parking that are economically and environmentally friendlier. Could the book have been shorts by a few hundred pages? Absolutely, but it was still a good read.… (altro)

We read this book for work. It is quite interesting though often times quite repetitive. It shows how meters and parking enforcement actually help communities and gives advice on other ways it can be used to help. There are many places that were dying communities that when they brought in organized parking, it changed the way the community was. Pasadena was one talked about. It also talked about the cost of "free" parking. How having mandated parking for businesses, increases the costs of businesses and rents. How if you don't own a car you are still paying more in rent or home ownership due to this. There were so many things that I hadn't thought about before.… (altro)

This book would have benefited from being run through a slicer; it is too long by about 3x. There is a lot of good information in here, but the constant repetition does not help, and the book begins to wear long before it is completed. That being said, I did appreciate the level of work and thought that went into this, and it is an important topic. The chapters he said to go ahead and skip if you found statistics unpleasant were my favorite chapters in the book, because they detailed the critical information and how the numbers were actually achieved. He gave a lot of examples that were valuable, but in many cases, the stories could have been trimmed by 2/3 and still have been as valuable. As a planning book for expert reading, this might make some sense (but probably not), but as a published book for a general audience, he definitely repeated things too many times, and said the same words too many times over and over. A valuable book that reduced the value by being cumbersome and tedious by the end.… (altro)