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 Donald Shoup, let his light shine and sparked countless thousands to his cause of transforming parking into anything else. He did this through ingenious edutainment which is modeled by many effective disciples. He says he has to be funny before anyone will take parking seriously. Nothing could be truer. He clearly articulated how excess parking deeply exacerbates inequality and reliably gives us the asphalt coated communities most of us actually don't want. We will miss him deeply, he had always only the most wholehearted encouragement that you'd expect from the best professor and coach ever. We are so grateful to have his teachings recorded in many ways and look forward to accelerating the movement of turning parking lots into parking-nots!” - Ann Cheng - PRN Board Member