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's careful and thorough writing solidified, contextualized, and grounded things about land use and social responsibility that I had known, almost intuitively, since I was child. Not only did his work provide knowledge, it provided comfort in knowing that that childhood inclination wasn't wrong just because it became a minority opinion as I got older. It takes a special kind of mind to not only distill the nuances of land use and policy, but to also talk about it in way that is entertaining and naturally zealous. Donald's work was, and will continue to be, a gift to anyone who has ever wanted a better world. May we be so fortunate as to be able to honor his memory and continue that advocacy for a better world. Donald, you will be missed, but certainly not forgotten.