B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Yale
Ph.D. in Economics, Yale
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
shoup@ucla.edu
Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. His research has focused on land economics, public finance, transportation, and parking.
In his 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup recommended that cities should (1) charge fair market prices for curb parking, (2) spend the meter revenue to improve public services in the metered areas, and (3) remove off-street parking requirements. In his 2018 edited book, Parking and the City, Shoup and 45 other academic and practicing planners examined what happened where cities have adopted these policies. The successful outcomes show that parking reforms may be the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to improve city life, protect the environment, and promote social justice.
Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and an Honorary Professor at the Beijing Transportation Research Center. He has received the American Planning Association’s National Excellence Award for a Planning Pioneer and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Distinguished Educator Award.