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 read Donald Shoup when I was in planning school, and his writing totally opened my eyes to the assumptions embedded in so much of the practice of planning, and made me think about how challenging those assumptions could actually get us better cities. I feel particularly blessed to have been able to meet him in person just a few months ago - when he visited my office in city hall, and answered all of my many questions about why our sidewalks in LA were so bad and what we could do to fix them. And then he answered even more questions by email afterwards! I am so sad to hear about his death. We have lost a bright light.