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On Monday, February 23, 2026, 7:53 PM, Jinhua Zhao <jin...@mit.edu> wrote:

Dear All,

This month marks the anniversary of Prof. Don Shoup's passing. His seminal work, the High Cost of Free Parking, transformed urban planning, revealing how underpriced parking distorts cities; as NYTimes noted, "He took a dry topic and made it entertaining, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the way cities are built."

To honor his legacy, Prof. Daniel Hess of SUNY Buffalo, a formal student of Shoup, spent two years writing the book "The Shoup Doctrine" to explore Shoup's ideas and his extraordinary influence on land use and transportation practice. Prof. Hess will discuss the book at this Friday's MIT Mobility Forum, followed by commentary from Professor Brian Taylor.

Tributes to Prof. Shoup
This session will focus on Shoup’s ideas as well as Shoup, the person. We warmly invite his students, colleagues, and friends to share memories and anecdotes of him here. We will gather these tributes and circulate them within our community to celebrate his life and legacy.

MIT Mobility Forum hosted by Jinhua Zhao

Designed by MIT Mobility Initiative 

#168 The Shoup Doctrine

Friday 12:00-13:00 ET Feb 27, 2026 on Zoom

All sessions are open to the public but require registration in advance.

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Hess, SUNY Buffalo

Commentator: Prof. Brian Taylor, UCLA

I look forward to seeing you there.

Best,

Jinhua

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Jinhua Zhao

Professor of Cities and Transportation

Founder MIT Mobility Initiative 

Lead PI Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms

By Prof. Dan Hess

Abstract: 

How can cities reform their parking policies to create cities that are more sustainable, just, and economically-resilient? Daniel B. Hess explores this question as he presents his recent book The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms. In the edited book, Hess tributes and extends Donald Shoup’s  (1938-2025) research about parking and its ability to transform activity corridors, neighborhoods, and cities. Shoup has spent his career encouraging everyone to rethink relationships between parking and the built environment, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and local economic development. Three key parking reforms—remove minimum parking requirements from zoning codes, raise underpriced curbside parking to market rates, and return parking revenue for local neighborhood improvements—serve as the foundation for conversation among 37 scholars and practitioners who contributed to The Shoup Doctrine. This book celebrates Shoup’s decades-long contributions to research, practice, and education and demonstrates how parking reform can support affordable housing development, lessen air pollution, encourage better street design, and reduce automobile dependency. This talk will be both a celebration of Shoup’s decades-long scholarly contributions about parking and a look ahead at how progressive parking reform affects urban planning practice today.

Link to the book The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms [25% discount code ‘26SMA1’]

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