In The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup compares off-street parking requirements to lead therapy:
The problems caused by parking requirements resemble iatrogenic illnesses in medicine. Iatrogenic illness (illness caused by a physician) is a combination of the Greek iatros (physician) + genic (generated). Medical history is filled with iatrogenic illnesses, including lead poisoning. Catastrophes caused by city planners can be called poleodomogenic, a combination of the Greek poleodomos (city planner) + genic. Poleodomogenic catastrophes like slum clearance and urban renewal happen because city planners sometimes mistake Pandora’s box for a toolkit.