Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Donald Shoup

How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica

By Carter Rubin | Jul 23, 2013 | 20 Comments

Editor’s Note: Streetsblog Los Angeles founding board member Carter Rubin recently finished his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at UCLA. In the following article, he recaps the findings from his capstone “client project” for the Urban Design Studio at the L.A. Department of City Planning. His research adviser was the inimitable parking guru, […]

Donald Shoup Responds to California APA Regarding California’s Parking Reform Bill

By Juan Matute | Jun 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

Professor Donald Shoup poses a parking question at UCLA’s Complete Streets for California event in March. Photo: Juan Matute (A letter from Donald Shoup on AB 904 to the American Planning Association can be found after the jump. – DN) “Donald Shoup is an academic authority on parking and its effects on transportation, land use, […]

Misunderstanding of Shoupian Theory Leads to Uninformed Attacks

By Damien Newton | Oct 19, 2010 | 8 Comments

Memo to the City of Los Angeles: stop trying to ruin Donald Shoup for the rest of us. Back in 2008 and early 2009, city officials claimed to be following the teachings of the UCLA professor and Parking Rock Star/Guru when it announced increases in parking meter fees from throughout the city. This has led […]

Shoup: NPR Puts a Price on Parking. Why Not Cato?

By Streetsblog | Oct 14, 2010 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog is pleased to present the third episode in UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup’s ongoing inquiry into whether the Cato Institute’s free market principles extend to the realm of parking policy. Read Shoup’s previous replies to Cato senior fellow Randal O’Toole here and here. Dear Randal, In your September 1 post on Cato@Liberty, you mentioned […]

Shoup: Cato HQ the Perfect Lab for Reforming Commuter Parking Subsidies

By Streetsblog | Sep 10, 2010 | No Comments

Last week we published a reply from UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup to Cato Institute senior fellow Randal O’Toole, in which Shoup clarified his positions on parking policy and explained several ways in which government regulations favor the provision of free parking. In response, O’Toole ran this post on the Cato@Liberty blog. Streetsblog is pleased […]

Donald Shoup Destroys “Libertarian” on the Cost of Parking

By Streetsblog | Sep 2, 2010 | No Comments

We’re reprinting this reply [PDF] from UCLA professor Donald Shoup, author of the High Cost of Free Parking, to Randal O’Toole, the libertarian Cato Institute senior fellow who refuses to acknowledge the role of massive government intervention in the market for parking, and the effect this has had on America’s car dependence. It’s an excellent […]

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