Archinect - News2024-11-23T05:15:57-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/124213753/ucla-professor-and-parking-guru-donald-shoup-to-retire
UCLA professor and "parking guru" Donald Shoup to retire Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-03-31T17:40:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/28/28419c3d6fb3eae1477e867602130429?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>After 41 years of teaching at UCLA, Donald Shoup, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, will retire on June 30. [...]
Shoup is widely known as the “parking guru” whose ideas on parking policies have been implemented in cities around the world. His influential book, "The High Cost of Free Parking" ... has led a growing number of cities to adapt new policies for parking requirements and to charge fair market prices for curb parking.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Parking is a <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/15120/parking" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gigantic factor</a> in determining how cities in the U.S. look and function, and no one knows that better than Donald Shoup. Any parking study worth its salt is indebted to Shoup's research.</p>