Curb parking has the curb as a reference point for positioning your vehicle.Parking at the curb When parking at the curb, come in slow and give yourself plenty of room so you don't have to turn sharp toward the curb. Turning too sharp or coming in at much more than 5 mph risks bumping the curb and scraping and damaging you tire and cars alignment. Also when curb parking avoid parking by mail boxes, trees, poles or other objects close to the edge of the curb that would cause your mirror to scrape them and make it difficult to open the curbside door. In the picture to the left below, you can see, from the drivers side view, the curb is to the right of one of the screws in the windshield wiper. this puts it a little left of center of the hood for me.
The further left you see the curb, the closer you are to the curb. Parking at the curb with the curb in front The answer is in looking at the curb in front! Notice in the picture below the front of the car is hanging over the curb to the point of pressing against the shrubs.You would want to avoid pressing against anything close to the curb like this. Being this close to the front curb also causes your license plate and the bottom of the bumper to scrape the curb which you don't want to do.
Below is a picture of where you want your front bumper when parking in front of a curb, just slightly before the curb. 
In the pictures above you can see the curb is under, maybe slightly behind the mirror. This lets you know you are inside the stall without being too close to the curb. The further behind the mirror you see the curb, the further you are from the curb in front. Be careful the back end of your car does not hang out of the stall.
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