{"id":303208,"date":"2010-02-10T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgeproblem.com\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2010-02-10T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:49:01","slug":"private-management-of-the-commons-parking-spots-and-chicago-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303208","title":{"rendered":"Private management of the commons: Parking spots and Chicago snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Giberson<\/em><\/p>\n

No doubt that since Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize<\/a> last year for, among other things, her work on decentralized approaches to common pool resource issues, a small legion of social science graduate students are looking for new cases of non-governmental management of common pool resources.<\/p>\n

Here is an example supplied by Fred McChesney: on-street parking spaces dug out from the snow in Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Taborrak<\/a> notes the Washington Post<\/em> reports that in Boston the city has codified a similar practice: if you dig yourself a parking spot in the snow, a lawn chair or trash can will render the space yours for up to two days.<\/p>\n

Perhaps a comparison to reclaimed-from-the-snow parking space management practices in the Washington, D.C., area would be possible.\u00a0 Given the amount of snow that has fallen in the capital area, you probably have a few weeks to collect the necessary comparative data.<\/p>\n

ADDED<\/strong>: Pittsburgh offers another variant of\u00a0 law and practice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Chairs and barriers of any type holding parking spaces on city streets are considered abandoned property and will be removed and discarded,” Pittsburgh Police spokeswoman Diane Richard told Channel 4 Action News in an e-mail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See also the discussion by Pitt Law professor Mike Madison<\/a>. HT for both links to Freakonomics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So Chicago has an informal practice guided by custom and tolerated by the city; Boston has the practice codified into city ordinance; Pittsburgh has an informal practice which is actively opposed by the city; and Washington DC doesn’t get serious snow often enough to have a well developed custom.\u00a0 Lots of angles to study.<\/p>\n

What about Minneapolis and Milwaukee?\u00a0 What about Seattle or Denver?\u00a0 Any more reports?<\/p>\n

STILL MORE: Via Market Design<\/em><\/a>, where Al Roth dubs the practice “anti-social,” a Boston Globe<\/em> story on claiming parking spots before the snow begins to fall, “Claiming a spot before shoveling? That\u2019s not Southie<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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