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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition is a landmark urban planning and transportation policy book by Donald Shoup, a UCLA professor and leading critic of conventional parking regulation. First published in 2005 and later updated, the book argues that the common practice of providing free or underpriced parking is not neutral convenience but a major policy distortion. Shoup shows how parking rules shape driving behavior, land use, housing affordability, street life, congestion, and environmental outcomes. Written as a rigorous policy critique rather than a popular manifesto, the book examines how zoning codes, minimum parking requirements, and curb parking pricing interact to produce hidden economic and social costs. Its central purpose is to persuade planners, elected officials, and urban advocates that parking should be managed as a scarce resource with real market value, not treated as an unlimited public entitlement.