Feedback and the use of land for parking
Lewis Lehe
UC Berkeley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2016.835
Keywords: parking, density, walkability, feedback, planning, land-use, regulation
Abstract
Land-use patterns are often the result of feedback effects in which one agent's decision both influences and is influenced by urban form. This paper argues that such feedback---of a positive or negative kind---could plausibly arise in the provision of off-street parking. A stylized model is used to illustrate feedback in the case of bundled parking, to note how such feedback may change a neighborhood in the long run and to analyze several policies. A theme is that feedback opens the door to surprising effects that are hard to predict from the status quo.Author Biography
Lewis Lehe, UC Berkeley
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