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There's no denying that Shoup's observations and theories about parking have been revolutionary, and that American cities' parking policies have undergone a vast shift in the previous twenty years thanks to this book. I don't disagree with his basic premises that parking minimums are bad public policy, nor that free public street parking distorts the market and creates perversive incentives that cause negative externalities for everyone. (I have some questions about the actual implementation and
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This book has a lot of words. I know what you are thinking: it is a book of course it is full of words, what else would you expect? But this book has a particularly large words to idea ratio. I think this is a hazard of works presenting novel ideas -- because the ideas are likely to face resistance and because they haven't been explored well enough to simplify them, it is easy to end up trying to be exhaustive. It is also clearly intended to be read in parts rather than all in one go.
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This book is legitimately a classic, in that it raised a very important issue that hadn't, as I understand it, been discussed much before, and provides a very detailed analysis of the issue and what can be done to correct it. That said, I can't help but feel that it was longer than it needed to be, and that some points were repetitive. Perhaps this was justified by the need to provide sufficiently convincing evidence of the author's controversial thesis that free parking and parking mandates are
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