From the UCLA Newsroom: Donald Shoup, distinguished professor emeritus of urban planning, whose decades of teaching and scholarship at UCLA greatly influenced the field of land-use planning, as well as generations of scholars, students and urban planners, died Feb. 6 in Los Angeles following a short illness. He was 86.
A UCLA faculty member since 1974 and a titan in the field of urban planning, Shoup was renowned for his pathbreaking research into how cities manage, or mismanage, parking spaces. This work, which demonstrated that seemingly mundane provisions in zoning codes had rendered many places overly dependent on driving, brought him academic accolades and made him a hero for a generation of urbanists determined to repair American cities.
Much of this prestige flowed from his landmark book “The High Cost of Free Parking,” first published in 2005 and revised in 2011. In it, Shoup argued that when cities fail to price the parking on their streets, curb spaces fill up and become hard to find. Cities then compound the problem by creating, through zoning codes, excessive amounts of off-street parking. Together, he said, these errors result in increased traffic congestion, air pollution, sprawl, housing costs and global warming, along with a host of other economic and urban design problems...
Full news release at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam-donald-shoup-86-renowned-ucla-urban-planner-and-parking-reform-pioneer.
Yours truly did an interview with Don Shoup for the UCLA Emeriti Assn. in July 2023:
https://archive.org/details/shoup_Recording_1280x720.
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