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.
When I visited LA for the first time in many years, after becoming an urban planner and believer in the power of cities, I visited UCLA, and went over to Donald Shoup's office on the weekend, just to see it. His video for Vox on the high cost of free parking introduced me to so much -- really a whole new way of looking at the world. I owe so much of my passion to his work. Thank you.