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.
I had an inkling, but Don's work gave me the tools to know for a fact that parking policy would be a multi-solving key to reversing a huge number of supposedly intractable social problems. Without his work, I don't believe I could have convinced our city council to unanimously rescind all off-street parking requirements for all uses. He planted a seed that will continue growing to cover the Earth in green again. Thank you Don.