Parking reform rock star Donald Shoup, who died last week, literally wrote the book on the subject. In honor of his decades of groundbreaking work on parking in urban centers, we’re republishing an oldie-but-goodie with ten takeaways we learned from Shoup’s career.

The parking-and-traffic expert died on February 6th, aged 86

Urbanists are mourning the loss of a dynamic voice for parking reform and walkable cities.

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup. Your memory will always be a blessing and your legacy will live for generations.

Requirements that parking be "free" prevent us from understanding its costs, which ultimately show up in the price of all local goods and services.

In Memoriam: Professor, author, and leader of rethinking parking policies, Donald Shoup, FAICP, has passed.

SVBC pays tribute to the legacy of Professor Donald Shoup, global pioneer in parking reform and transportation & land use planning.

UCLA Urban Planning Professor Transformed California, National Land Use. "Professor Shoup was a testament to the value of transformative policy backed by solid analysis"

A tribute to Donald Shoup Dogg, the pied piper of parking

Legendary Luskin professor, parking “guru” and global figure in transportation and land use planning sparked a dedicated following of parking reform enthusiasts…

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The planning academic changed how we view parking across the American landscape, launching reforms that have helped municipalities.

Donald Shoup and Michael Burawoy were beloved professors here in California who both passed away in the same week. I reflect on the loss of these titans.

Donald Shoup, the “pope of parking studies,” a.k.a. “Shoup Dogg,” died last week on February 6 at age 86.

Shoup had a long and storied career in the academy, but he was also a mentor to generations of urban planners.

The fact that LA could even aspire to host a "car-free" games owes a great debt to Donald Shoup repeating, for decades, that just because you're going somewhere in this city, you're not automatically guaranteed a free parking spot when you get there

Remembering Donald Shoup, 1938-2025

A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup

His mission was to help people understand the underlying economics of public goods and services. Parking was simply the vehicle, one might say, that he chose to do so.

Considered the preeminent scholar of a mundane but everyday issue, Donald Shoup left a legacy of persistence and influence

Free parking has a veneer of equality, but it is unfair. Here's a proposal from America's leading parking academic to make it more equitable.

Employer-paid parking will undermine New York City’s congestion tolls. But parking cash-out policies like those in California and Washington D.C. can solve the problem.

Henry Grabar's breezy Paved Paradise is must reading for planners -- especially in California.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

Where curb parking is overcrowded, drivers who are searching for a rare open curb space congest traffic, pollute the air, and produce carbon dioxide. To avoid these problems, some cities have established Parking Benefit Districts that charge market prices for curb parking and spend the revenue to pay for public services on the metered blocks. A case study of Manhattan’s Upper West Side found that charging market prices for the currently unmetered curb spaces would eliminate 22 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per block per year and yield at least $1,025 per household per year to improve public services.

Thankfully, some cities are starting to get rid of extra parking spaces in favor of housing or other, better uses.

The Seaside Institute is pleased to announce that Donald Shoup will be honored as the 2023 Seaside Prize recipient.

In this episode, I chat with legendary parking guru Donald Shoup. Shoup is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and the author of The High Cost of Free Parking. We talk about some of the 2022 parking reform victories, the man behind the legend, and where we go from here.

Parking is at the heart of every fight about how we build our cities and towns, with effects that go far beyond transportation. Minimum parking requirements  — laws that dictate how many parking spaces are required for various types of buildings and businesses — make housing more expensive, raise th…