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 love reading all of these reflections. Over and over, they confirm the impressions I've always had of Dr. Shoup--he was brilliant and witty but also generous and kind, and lacked arrogance or self-importance. He struck me as one of those people who knows what's really important in life. I think his fundamental character, and not just his brilliance as an academic and writer, are why so many of us found him to be someone to look up to and admire. I wish I could have properly met him.