Archives for July 2018

Mobility Lab estimates that, in America, there are eight parking spots for every car, covering up to 30 percent of the available space in our cities. The more parking we have, the more encouraged we are to drive and to shape our urban landscapes based on that parking. A new 7-minute video discusses the price of parking and how we have historically done it all wrong in this country. UCLA professor and parking guru Donald Shoup is interviewed in the film, detailing the two big parking inventions that came to dominate how we think about and manage parking: parking meters and off-street parking requirements/mandatory parking minimums. See: https://bit.ly/2GFL1W4