Publications

BOOKS

Donald Shoup (ed.), Parking and the City,  New York: Routledge, 2018. Translated into Chinese in 2021.

Reviews of Parking and the City

Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking, Chicago: Planners Press, 2005 and 2011. New York: Routledge, 2018. Translated into Russian in 2014, Romanian in 2020, Persian in 2021, and Chinese in 2024. Free searchable manuscript at this link.

Reviews of The High Cost of Free Parking

Donald Shoup, Parking Cash Out, Chicago: Planning Advisory Service, 2005.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Donald Shoup, “Parking Benefit Districts,” forthcoming in Journal of Planning Education and Research. Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Urban Transport of China, Vol. 21, No. 5, 2023,

Donald Shoup, Book Review of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, forthcoming in the Journal of Planning Literature.

Donald Shoup, “Want to Reduce Traffic Congestion? Cash Out Employer-Paid Parking.” Planetizen, April 1, 2024.

Donald Shoup, “Reclaim the Curb!” in Renewing the Dream, James Sanders (ed.), New York: Rizzoli, 2023.

Donald Shoup, “The Goldilocks Principle of Curb Parking Prices,” Transfers, August 2023.

Donald Shoup, “The Parking Reform That Could Transform Manhattan,” CityLab, May 24, 2023.

Donald Shoup and Don Pickrell, “Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking,” Transfers, June 2022.

Donald Shoup, “A Faster Path to Safer Sidewalks,” CityLab, January 10, 2022.

Donald Shoup, “Pricing Curb Parking,” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 154, December 2021, pages 399-412.

Donald Shoup and Don Pickrell, “The Power of Getting Paid Not to Park at Work,” CityLab, July 14, 2021.

Donald Shoup, “Answers to 12 Questions about AB 1401“, Planetizen, June 15, 2021.

Donald Shoup, “The Perils of Central Planning for Parking,” Planetizen, June 3, 2021.

Laura Friedman and Donald Shoup, “Cities Need Housing; Parking Requirements Make It Harder,” CityLab, April 26, 2021.

Donald Shoup, “Le Coût Prohibitif des Obligations de Stationnement,Transport Urbains, No.137, December 2020.

Donald Shoup, “The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements,” Zoning Practice, February 2020.

Donald Shoup,  “It’s Time to Try Congestion Pricing in L.A.,” CityLab, July 2, 2020.

Donald Shoup, “Pricing the Curb,” Parking & Mobility, April 2020

Donald Shoup, “Transit Validation,” CityLab, January 31, 2020.

Anne Brown, Vinit Mukhija, and Donald Shoup, “Converting Garages into Housing,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, March 2020, pp. 56-68.

Donald Shoup, “Learning from Parking Reforms in Other Cities,” in Parking: An International Perspective,  Cambridge, MA: Elsevier, 2020.

Donald Shoup, “Parking Reform Will Save the City,” CityLab, September 20, 2019. Translated into Portuguese in 2021.

Robert Hampshire and Donald Shoup, “What Share of Traffic is Cruising for Parking?Transfers, Fall 2019.

Anne Brown, Vinit Mukhija, and Donald Shoup, “Converting Garages for Cars into Housing for People,” Transfers, Fall 2018.

Donald Shoup, “Parking Price Therapy,” Planning, October 2018, pp. 33-36.

Donald Shoup, “Terapia de Preços para os Problemas de Estacionamento,” Smart City, September, 2018, pp. 41-44.

Donald Shoup, “The Parking Reformation,” Parking Review, October 2018, pp. 58-59.

Donald Shoup, “How to Fix New York’s Parking Problems,” New York Times, June 18, 2018.

Robert Hampshire and Donald Shoup, “What Share of Traffic is Cruising for Parking,” Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Volume 52, July 2018, pp. 184–201.

Anne Brown, Vinit Mukhija, and Donald Shoup, “Garage Apartments,” Zoning Practice, May 2018, pp. 2-7.

Gregory Pierce, Hank Willson, and Donald Shoup, “Optimal Pricing of Public Garages,” Transfers, Issue 1, Spring 2018.

Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang, “Parking Benefit Districts in China,” ACCESS, No. 51, Spring 2017.

Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang, “Parking Benefit Districts in China,” translated into Chinese and posted in Urban Transport of China WeChat Official Account, October 24, 2016. 停车受益区在中国.

Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang, “Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services,” Journal of Planning Education and Research,  Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2017, pp. 136–149.

Donald Shoup, Quan Yuan, and Xin Jiang, “Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services,” translated into Chinese and reprinted in Urban Transport of China, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2016, pp. 75-87. 通过停车收费筹措公共服务资金.

Donald Shoup, “How Zoning Can Ease Land Assembly,” Urban Land, January/February 2017, pp. 65-66.

Donald Shoup, “Parking Benefit Districts,” ACCESS, No. 49, Fall 2016, pp. 35-37.

Donald Shoup, “Cutting the Cost of Parking Requirements,” ACCESS, No. 48, Spring 2016, pp. 26-33.

Gregory Pierce, Hank Willson, and Donald Shoup, “Optimizing the Use of Parking Garages: Pricing Parking by Demand,” Transport Policy, Vol. 44, November 2015, pp. 89–95.

Donald Shoup, “Putting a Cap on Parking Requirements,” Planning, May 2015, pp. 28–30.

Donald Shoup and Fernando Torres-Gil, “Ending Disabled Placard Abuse at Parking Meters: the Two-Tier Solution,” Parking Professional, January, 2015, pp. 20-23

Donald Shoup, “Informal Parking: Turning Problems into Solutions,” ACCESS, No. 46, Spring 2015, pp. 14–19.

Donald Shoup, “Making Parking Meters Popular,” ACCESS, No. 45, Fall 2014, pp. 35-37.

Donald Shoup, “Making Parking Meters Popular,” translated into Chinese and posted in Urban Transport of China WeChat Official Account, October 24, 2016. 让停车码表更受欢迎.

Donald Shoup, “Informal Parking Markets: Turning Problems into Solutions,” in The Informal American City, edited by Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014, pp. 277–294.

Donald Shoup, “The High Cost of Minimum Parking Requirements,” in Parking: Issues and Policies, edited by Corinne Mulley and Stephen Ison, Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2014, pp. 87–113.

Donald Shoup, “Parking Charity,” ACCESS, No. 44, Spring 2014, pp. 35-37.

Donald Shoup, “Informal Parking on Sidewalks: The Broken Windows Effect,” in California Policy Options 2014, pp. 145-162.

Gregory Pierce and Donald Shoup, “SFpark: Pricing Parking by Demand,” ACCESS, No. 43, Fall 2013, pp. 20-28.

Gregory Pierce and Donald Shoup, “Getting the Prices Right, An Evaluation of Pricing Parking by Demand in San Francisco,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 79, No. 1, Winter 2013, pp. 67-81.

Gregory Pierce and Donald Shoup, “Getting the Prices Right, An Evaluation of Pricing Parking by Demand in San Francisco,” translated into Chinese and reprinted in Urban Transport of China, Vol. 12, No. 6, 2014, pp. 82-94. 停车收费合理定价–基于需求的旧金山停车定价模式评价.

Donald Shoup, “On-Street Parking Management or Off-Street Parking Requirements,” ACCESS, No. 42, Spring 2013, pp. 38-40.

Michael Manville, Alex Beata, and Donald Shoup, “Turning Housing into Driving: Parking Requirements and Density in Los Angeles and New York,” Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2013, pp. 350–375.

Donald Shoup, “Prefacio,” in Políticas Públicas Destinadas a Reducir el Uso del Automóvil: Manual para Implementar Sistemas de Parquímetros en Ciudades Mexicanas, 2013, pp. 6–9.

Donald Shoup, “Solar Parking Requirements,” ACCESS, No. 40, Spring 2012, pp. 38-40.

Donald Shoup, “Ending the Abuse of Disabled Parking Placards,” ACCESS, No. 39, Fall 2011, pp. 38-40.

Donald Shoup, “There Ain’t No Such thing As Free Parking,” Cato Unbound, April 2011.

Donald Shoup, “Free Parking or Free Markets,” ACCESS, No. 38, Spring 2011, pp. 28-35.

Donald Shoup, “Graduated Parking Fines,” ACCESS, No. 37, Fall 2010, p. 41.

Donald Shoup, “Putting Cities Back on Their Feet,” Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 136, No.3, September 2010, pp. 225–233.

Donald Shoup, “Fixing Broken Sidewalks,” ACCESS, No. 36, Spring 2010, pp. 30-36.

Donald Shoup, “Graduated Density Zoning to Encourage Land Assembly for Infill Development,” Zoning Practice, January 2009, pp. 2–7.

Donald Shoup, “The Politics and Economics of Parking on Campus,” in Stephen Ison and Tom Rye (eds.), Transport Demand Management Measures: An International Perspective, 2008, pp. 121–149.

Donald Shoup, “Graduated Density Zoning,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter 2008, pp. 161–179.

Donald Shoup, “The Price of Parking on Great Streets,” in Abhijeet Chavan, Christian Peralta, and Christopher Steins, Planetizen Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007, pp. 52–56.

David King, Michael Manville, and Donald Shoup, “For Whom the Road Tolls,” ACCESS, No. 31, Fall 2007, pp. 2-7.

David King, Michael Manville, and Donald Shoup, The Political Calculus of Congestion Pricing, Transport Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 111-123.

Donald Shoup, “Cruising for Parking,” ACCESS, No. 30, Spring 2007, pp.16-22.

Donald Shoup, Chinese translation of “Cruising for Parking,” Urban Transport of China, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2012.

Donald Shoup, “Cruising for Parking,Transport Policy, Vol. 13, No. 6, November 2006, pp. 479-486.

Donald Shoup, “Cruising for Parking,” translated into Chinese and reprinted in Urban Transport of China, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2012. 为停车而巡航.

Vinit Mukhija and Donald Shoup, “Quantity versus Quality in Off-Street Parking Requirements,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 72, No. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 296–308.

Donald Shoup, “Review of Transport of Delight,” in Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 46, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 568–570.

Michael Manville and Donald Shoup, “People, Parking, and Cities,” Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 131, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 233-245.

Donald Shoup, “Parking Cash Out,” Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2005.

Michael Manville and Donald Shoup, “People, Parking, and Cities,” ACCESS, No. 25, Fall 2004, pp. 2-8.

Donald Shoup, “The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 34, No. 6, November 2004, pp. 753-784.

Daniel Hess, Jeffrey Brown, and Donald Shoup, “Waiting for the Bus,” Journal of Public Transportation, Volume 7, Number 4, 2004, pages 67–84.

Donald Shoup, “Truth in Transportation Planning,” Journal of Transportation and Statistics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-16. Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Urban Transport of China, December 2022.

Douglas Kolozsvari and Donald Shoup, “Turning Small Change into Big Changes,” ACCESS, No. 23, Fall 2003, pp. 2-7.

Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, “Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 23, No. 1, Fall 2003, pp. 69-82.

Donald Shoup, “Buying Time at the Curb,” in The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein (eds.), New York: New York University Press, 2003, pp. 60-85.

Donald Shoup, “Roughly Right vs. Precisely Wrong,” ACCESS, No. 20, Spring 2002, pp. 20-25.

Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, “Unlimited Access, Prepaid Transit at Universities,” ACCESS, No. 19, Fall 2001, pp. 40-41.

Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, “Unlimited Access,” Transportation, Vol. 28, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 233-267.

Donald Shoup, “Instead of Free Parking,” ACCESS, No. 15, Fall 1999, pp.8-13.

Donald Shoup, “In Lieu of Required Parking,”Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1999, pp. 307-320.

Donald Shoup, “The Trouble with Minimum Parking Requirements,” Transportation Research Part A, Vol. 33A, Nos.7-8, September/November 1999, pp. 549-574.

Donald Shoup, “Congress Okays Cash Out,” ACCESS, No. 13, Fall 1998, pp. 2-8.

Donald Shoup and Mary Jane Breinholt, “Employer-Paid Parking: A Nationwide Survey of Employers’ Parking Subsidy Policies,” in David Greene, Donald Jones, and Mark Delucchi (eds.), The Full Social Costs and Benefits of Transportation, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997, pages 371–385.

Donald Shoup, “The High Cost of Free Parking,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 3-20.

Donald Shoup, “The Pedigree of a Statistic,” ACCESS, No. 11, Fall 1997, p. 41.

Donald Shoup, “Evaluating the Effects of Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking: Eight Case Studies,” Transport Policy, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 1997, pp. 201-216.

Donald Shoup, “Regulating Land Use at Sale,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 62, No. 3, Summer 1996, pp. 354–372.

Donald Shoup, “An Opportunity to Reduce Minimum Parking Requirements,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 61, No. 1, Winter 1995, pp. 14–28.

Donald Shoup, “Is Underinvestment in Public Infrastructure an Anomaly?” in Gareth Jones and Peter Ward (eds.), Methodology for Land and Housing Market Analysis, London: UCL Press, 1994, pp. 236-250.

Donald Shoup, “Cashing in on Curb Parking,” ACCESS, No. 4, Spring 1994, pp. 20–26.

Richard Willson and Donald Shoup, “Parking Subsidies and Travel Choices: Assessing the Evidence,” Transportation, Vol. 17, 1990, pp. 141-157.

Donald Shoup, “New Funds for Old Neighborhoods: California’s Deferred Special Assessments,” California Policy Seminar Brief, 1990, 4 pp.

Donald Shoup, “New Funds for Old Neighborhoods: California’s Deferred Special Assessments,” Berkeley: California Policy Seminar, 1990, 31 pp.

Maria Mehranian, Martin Wachs, Donald Shoup, and Richard Platkin, “Parking Costs and Mode Choices among Downtown Workers.” Transportation Research Record, 1130, 1987, pp. 1-5.

Monica Surber, Donald Shoup, and Martin Wachs, “Effects of Ending Employer-Paid Parking for Solo Drivers,” Transportation Research Record 957, 1984, pp. 67-71.

Donald Shoup, “Intervention through Property Taxation and Public Ownership,” in Urban Land Policy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 132-152.

Leland Burns and Donald Shoup, Effects of Resident Control and Ownership in Self-Help Housing, Land Economics, Vol. 57, No. 1, February 1981, pp. 106-114.

Donald Shoup, “Financing Public Investment by Deferred Special Assessment,” National Tax Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, December 1980, pp. 414-429.

Donald Shoup and Don Pickrell, “Problems with Parking Requirements in Zoning Ordinances,” Traffic Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, October 1978, pp. 545–563

Donald Shoup, “The Effect of Property Taxes on the Capital Intensity of Urban Land Development,” in George Break (ed.), Metropolitan Financing and Growth Management Policies, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, pp. 105–132.

Richard Pollock and Donald Shoup, “Effect of Shifting the Property Tax Base from Improvement Value to Land Value,” Land Economics, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 1977.

Donald Shoup and Phillip Vincent, “Equity in Financing the California Transportation Plan,” California Department of Transportation, September 1975, 131 pages.

Donald Shoup, “Theoretical Efficiency in Air Pollution Control,Western Economic Journal, September 1971, pp. 310–313.

Donald Shoup, “Effects of Suboptimization on Urban Government Decision Making,” Journal of Finance, May 1971, pp. 547–564.

Donald Shoup, “The Optimal Timing of Urban Land Development,” Papers of the Regional Science Association, Vol. XXV, 1970, pp. 33-44.

Donald Shoup and Ruth Mack, Advance Land Acquisition by Local Governments, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968, 127 pp.