Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Donald Shoup

Shoup to O’Toole: The Market for Parking Is Anything But Free

By Streetsblog | Sep 1, 2010 | 68 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 […]

Donald Shoup on San Francisco’s Groundbreaking Parking Meter Study

By Matthew Roth | Oct 15, 2009 | 12 Comments

UCLA professor and parking policy superstar Donald Shoup. If you’re interested in the power of parking policy to reduce congestion and make streets more livable, the most exciting place to be right now is San Francisco. For the past year and a half, the city has pursued an innovative slate of policies designed to manage […]

Tonight: See the Blueprint for a New Upper West Side

By Brad Aaron | Nov 13, 2008 | 27 Comments

Streets designed for safe, accessible, and equitable use. That is the vision of the "Blueprint for the Upper West Side: A Roadmap for Truly Livable Streets," to be unveiled tonight by the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign. The product of one year of community-driven planning, in consultation with urbanist legends Jan Gehl and Donald […]

Point/Counterpoint: Parking Reform Now or Later (or Never)?

By Ben Fried | Sep 19, 2008 | 5 Comments

What better time than Park(ing) Day (or should I say “Parrrrking Day”) to break out a fascinating piece from the magazine known as Parking Today, “the leading publication serving the diverse needs of today’s parking industry.” The trade pub recently ran a debate between parking planner Don Norte and performance parking guru Donald Shoup. Norte […]

Wiki Wednesday: A Weekly Dose of Livable Streets Knowledge

By Ben Fried | Jul 16, 2008 | No Comments

Today we’re launching a new feature on Streetsblog — Wiki Wednesdays — where we’ll highlight new content coming online at StreetsWiki, the community-created livable streets knowledge base. The inaugural entry is the bio-in-progress on UCLA professor Donald Shoup (right). Earlier this week, Zane Selvans (member of the Livable Streets Network since June 16) helped flesh […]

Donald Shoup: Planners Are Versed in Parking Politics, Not Policy

By Ben Fried | May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments

Un-Shoupian parking policy on display on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue The Toronto Star gave parking policy maven Donald Shoup some major play earlier this week, running a profile of the UCLA professor excerpted from journalist Tim Falconer’s new book, "Drive." In the piece, we learn why Shoup believes planners are apt to make bad judgments when […]

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