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Yep. Way more than you ever wanted to know about why free parking is bad here: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
Brief overview of book here: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.html
I'd highly recommend the High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup (RIP) on this subject. Great, pioneering book about how we fail to deal with the huge externalities of personal automobiles.
This had been on my list of books to read for a while:
https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
"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."
Lots of Vancouverites need to understand the true cost of the government giving away so much land without user fees. I suggest reading the seminal tome The High Cost of Free Parking
>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.
If you ever get the chance I recommend reading Peter Ackroyd London the Biography, it gives a fascinating insight on the area around Seven Dials that I always think of whenever I pass through this beautiful part of town https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099422581/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_58r6Db8EMW2VW
Most parking lots are sized for the 4th busiest day of the year. Which means 360 days of the year it's just a massive expanse of asphalt doing nothing except making people who didn't drive there walk farther.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
I just finished reading Garden Revolution last night and it has great strategies for doing exactly what you want to accomplish.
I have a recommendation that isn’t about a single project, but it’s important context for larger projects and why Cities are shaped the way they are. Try something written by Donald Shoup. I’m a traffic engineer and his work has been referenced in my planning classes in grad school and beyond in the industry. He takes a thorough and fascinating look at the high cost of free parking. I haven’t read this new work, but am interested in his book Parking and the City: https://www.amazon.com/Parking-City-Donald-Shoup/dp/1138497126 We spend so much money on free parking that costs too much for what it’s worth, and contributes to massive ecological and social problems!
I know it can be quite saddening here in the states. Luckily there are some methods of control that homeowners can do to slow down the invasives and help stimulate native plant growth. The book, Garden Revolution goes into greater detail but it states (and I have used this method with success) is to selectively prune back nonnatives every year while leaving the the natives along as well as planting natives with similar competitiveness so that as the invasives are drained of energy trying to regrow year after year, the natives constantly have more energy to root out, branch out, and seed out the invasives, eliminating them from our yards.
Everyone should read Donald Shoup's "Parking and the City" or his other work "The High Cost of Free Parking" before answering. It really is shocking how much money is spent on parking. It is by far the largest subsidy given to drivers in Canada and the US, and given how much free parking I see here, I cannot imagine that it isn't true in the Netherlands as well.
But even if you still want free parking, the book at least gives a background and understanding of the real costs of free parking.
On the other hand, I'd love to eliminate on street parking all together. Parking is complicated but there's some smart folks thinking really hard about it.
Here's an absolutely crazy book about it.
https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
I suggest you read The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup. Or at least think about the actual costs involved with any real estate investment in and near a large metropolitan city.
Or just pretend that it costs nothing to store your 2 ton metal cages. You can live in a fantasy world if you want.
Yes it is. Lmao. Imagine crying about not being able to park for free. The entitlement. Jesus. People like you don't seem to understand the immense cost our society pays so you can park for "free".
Like free healthcare, it's not free, just somebody is paying for it with their taxes rather than the end user. In the case of a broken leg, that makes moral sense to me. Parking for free? That's entitlement.
A book you should look into: https://www.amazon.ca/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
Oh no! You have to pay to store your 2 ton personal property in a city! What an outrage! Even when you aren't charged for it directly, parking isn't free.
Fantasy? Is your mind really that closed buddy? You realize that much of Europe deals with snow, and has pedestrian friendly cities? Do you have any idea how much more enjoyable life is in these cities?
Ontop of everything I've already said above, cars are just much much more expensive for people. The cost of owning a car is very high, and the roads deteriorate so fast because of traffic.
Seniors can't drive forever, and good public transport is much safer for them. Same for people with disabilities, parents, and hell even people drinking, getting drunk drivers off the roads is another benefit.
I honestly don't even know why you said the groups you said, because in every way, for everyone, pedestrian & public transport focused cities are better.
I recommend checking out videos like Not Just Bikes, or reading research on the subject, like The High Cost of Free Parking.
This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion (despite the book), but I think everywhere should always charge for parking, not just for parking with chargers (although I'm fine with additional charges for the energy and for idle time, especially at fast chargers). Combined with eliminating parking minimums, we can start more effectively using land that's currently forced to languish as unused parking spots.
This is fundamentally untrue. The changes against parking minimums are not for developers; parking minimums and free parking have enormous externalities. Here is a YouTube video that introduces the topic: The High Cost of Free Parking
If it interests you, the researcher interviewed has an 800-page book on the topic.
These look a lot like landscape architecture graphics. If you like the aesthetic, there are many reference books on the subject. I think this is the one I had in school: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0823073335/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_Q28PXAF31G6X3ZNW6G1A
Parking in general should most definitely not be free. In fact, free parking is terrible public policy: it drives up the price of rent (more space dedicated to cars means less space for constructions), depresses economic growth by reducing foot traffic, and makes people unhealthy by leading to more sedentary lives
See here: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X/ref=nodl_
Providing education to the next generation is in everybody's benefit, same with having hospital access and healthcare.
Free parking on the other hand only brings benefits to the person driving the vehicle and, maybe, the place they are visiting. Though we're talking residential parking here, so that doesn't actually apply.
May I suggest this book?
Not that obscure an opinion, it has been making the rounds in urbanist circles for years.
The High Cost of Free Parking is an urban planning book by UCLA professor Donald Shoup. It deals with the costs of free parking policies on society. It is structured as a criticism of how parking is planned and regulated, especially the use of parking minimums and off-street parking requirements. It is influenced by Shoup's Georgist philosophy and recommends that parking be built and allocated according to its fair market value.
https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
I mean, "sometimes"...like at Christmas?
Even if parkings lots do fill up at Christmas, we should be questioning a usage of space which sees expensive investment, environmental harms like, and loss of opportunity (all costs of parking), to be used only a handful of days in the year.
There are other much more efficient ways to manage parking:
https://www.amazon.ca/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
Real fiscal conservatives would be all over this.
Lemme guess, these spots are either free or the hourly toll is too cheap.
Great tip: soil test!
Was it either of these?
Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119204631/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_9FYMQZRM06C6QYDNM9Q8
Turfgrass Science and Management https://www.amazon.com/dp/1111542570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_EP7PXYEKWAWHWF5WYJM9
Good.
Free Parking in downtowns is one of the worst "innovations" of the modern era. (See the book: The High Cost of Free Parking)
Try this book
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118693183/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_jRg9FbDSBCDF5
Thank you. A lot of these method are talked in even greater detail in the book, Garden Revolution. For example, the authors tell you all about proper weed whacking techniques, lists of many good native plant choices based on soil types and zone, and many excellent, environmentally friendly tips for halting invasives from hurting your garden. A 10/10 book for me.
There is no such thing as free parking. It cost money to build and maintain parking spaces, and that cost typically gets past on through the resident via either rent or purchase price. You pay for the premium weather you want to or not, but by requiring parking by law, you force others to pay for the premium as well.
If you're interested, I would recommend <em>The High Cost of Free Parking</em> by Donald Shoup
Looks pretty sunny. If I were you, I'd turn it into a wildflower meadow. This book describes some techniques. I doubt it would be much more difficult than converting it to a grass lawn, and it would have a lot of environmental benefits as a meadow.
Cite any facts to backup your argument? Where exactly do you think this has "backfired"?
Because I got 800 pages that say you are wrong: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
You won't read it but in there it details how (and with the backing of many studies and sources) that controlling and chancing for parking results in less traffic and more economic prosperity. The most prosperous places in the world also have the highest charges for parking.