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 first met Donald Shoup when he spoke at the World Parking Symposium in 2004, in Toronto. His work was insanely inspiring for me, and his famous book published a year later, as always remained close at hand. His clarity and attention to detail in the interconnectedness of land use, parking, accessibility, housing costs, sprawl, livability, etc. was remarkable. A true systems thinker. He will be missed.