Remembering Donald Shoup (1938-2025)
Professor Donald Shoup passed away on February 6, 2025. Among many other significant achievements and honors he was a founding Advisory Board member of PRN.
Donald’s curiosity, intelligence, passion, generosity, and kindness allowed him not only to expose the critical problems with modern parking policy, but also to ignite and nurture a movement to change them and make the world a better place.
The Parking Reform Network wishes to provide our community with a place to share their stories and thoughts to remember and honor Donald.
Professor Shoup was a donor, member, and booster of PRN’s work. If you are so moved, you can honor his legacy and support the parking reform movement with a memorial donation.
Condolences to everyone at PRN, and to Donald Shoup's family and friends. It was years ago that I heard Shoup interviewed on Freakonomics where he talked about his book and the pilot program in San Francisco. Who knew parking could be so interesting? I put his book on one of my Amazon lists and there it sat for years until I got involved locally and parking seemed to be an issue with some residents. With Shoup's book always in the back of my mind, when my local council called on me to lead a parking committee, I finally got the audio version of The High Cost of Free Parking and spent 23 hours listening to all those popping P's. It was instrumental in teaching me about parking and changing my attitude about many other things. I joined the FB group which led me to Strong Towns and to other related podcasts where I heard about PRN. Of course I joined, and I have really enjoyed being a part of and contributing as best as I can. Cheers.