Rethinking Parking as a Public Good and How Can We Move Forward?
In my recent book Rethinking Parking: Planning and Urban Design Perspectives, I looked beyond the driver’s seat to understand the critical impact of parking on the destination via five perspectives: place, politics, policy, pricing, and professional practice. This 5P toolbox provides an insight into parking, including a deeply entrenched sense of entitlement to cheap, easy parking; the idea that parking is a public good; and, related to parking as a public good, the tendency to subsidize public parking.
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