Win a signed copy of Parking and the City (and more) and support the Parking Reform Network

If you’re interested in transportation, urbanism, climate change, or land use you don’t want to miss this opportunity to support the Parking Reform Network and win books signed by Donald Shoup, Todd Litman, Richard Willson, Nolan Gray, and more! The Parking Reform Network, which recently released an updated map of cities that have eliminated parking

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Now you can easily see what cities have (mostly) removed all car parking requirements.

We launched our map of cities that have removed or reduced parking mandates on November 22nd and have received good feedback and over 45 new reports to update or add to the dataset. We’re working through the reports while working on features to improve the user experience. Over the weekend we published and update and

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A new way to look at costly parking mandates

In 2015, Strong Towns led a landmark campaign in the fight to end costly parking mandates by developing a crowdsourced map of cities that have eliminated minimum parking requirements. Circulating far and wide, this map has been an emblem in illustrating where cities have made progress to prioritize people over cars, and inspires other communities

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What Parking Day showed me about the value of public space and what we sacrifice for cars

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Tenant seeks snakes to settle score over selfish neighbor’s parking practice.

When Donald Shoup quipped that most “thinking about parking seems to take place in the reptilian cortex,” it’s doubtful he could have imagined this Craigslist request for 10-25 one inch wide snakes that a frustrated tenant in Durham, NC is seeking to put inside a van taking up a prime parking space. When a common

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