Donald Shoup

Who is Donald Shoup?

Donald Curran Shoup is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and widely-regarded expert in the economics and availability of parking. His 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking identifies the negative repercussions of off-street parking requirements.

Shoup received his undergraduate degree from Yale College in electrical engineering and his doctorate from Yale University in economics. After graduation he headed west, assuming a post as research economist at UCLA's Institute for Government and Public Affairs. After a four-year stint as a professor at the University of Michigan, Shoup returned to UCLA as an Associate Professor of Urban Planning in 1974, and later was awarded a full professorship in 1980.