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Donald Shoup, distinguished research professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, is the 2017 recipient of the Distinguished Planning Educator Award. In this video, Shoup discusses his history at UCLA, why he decided to specialize in parking issues and why the Urban Planning department is so important for UCLA Luskin students.

Donald Shoup, the author of the seminal planning book "The High Cost of Free Parking," explains how parking requirements have poisoned cities and why poor planning is to blame.

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Season 1 Episode 43: A DISCUSSION W/ DONALD SHOUP ABOUT HIS THREE FOUNDATIONAL PARKING REFORMS In this episode, John has a fascinating conversation with Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA about how strategic parking policy reforms can help create healthy, vibrant communities.

Players should pay if they land on board game square, says Professor Donald Shoup

In an interview, the guru of progressive parking policy reflects on his decades of research and writing, which transformed how cities look at the curb.

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In light of the Downtown Memphis' Commission's review of downtown parking and ways to make it more effective and efficient, we are posting a commentary by retired UCLA economist Don Shoup, whose 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is considered the definitive authority on the subject. His recent book, Parking and the City, follows up: At the dawn of the automobile age, suppose Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller had asked how city planners could increase the demand for cars and gasoline. Consider three options. First, divide the city into separate zones (housing here, jobs there, shopp...