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.
Donald Shoup was a part of a group of urbanists that had opened my eyes to the wider realm of economic impact that driving has on our society. He was a major aspect during the Covid years that I began to realize parts of our societal function that I never questioned or thought of much. He was and continues to be an inspiration, symbolizing the lifelong dedication for healthy, human-scale spaces, that we deserve. While his work only gained major traction in recent years, as is the time I gained interest, by all means was it influential. I believe he has shifted a generation urbanists on the path for a less car centric vision.