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.
Professor Shoup had a seminal impact on my career. When I was in grad school for urban planning, his books had not yet been published, but he had a number of papers that I came across. Having worked in finance and studied economics before going into urban planning, I found his line of argument around fair pricing and the inefficiencies of bundled parking and excessive parking requirements compelling. And I was not alone! The start of my planning career was focused on parking policy. Later on, I got to meet Professor Shoup and share with him some of the front line struggles that cities have to implement the concepts he championed. While his passing is sad, may we all be so lucky to have had such an impact.