The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup

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. After completing his PhD he headed west, assuming a post as research economist at UCLA's Institute for Government and Public Affairs. He received undergraduate degrees from Yale College in electrical engineering and economics, and a doctorate in economics from Yale in 1968. Lee's efforts to build major parking garages and improve city traffic flow with the Oak Street Connector and other urban renewal projects. He arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, in the late 1950s at the peak of New Haven Mayor Richard C. When he was two years old, his family moved to Hawaii for his father's work in the U.S. Shoup was born in Long Beach, California, in 1938. In 2015, the American Planning Association awarded Shoup the 'National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Pioneer.' Early life and career His 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking identifies the negative repercussions of off-street parking requirements and relies heavily on 'Georgist' insights about optimal land use and rent distribution. He is a research professor of urban planning at University of California, Los Angeles and a noted Georgist economist. Donald Curran Shoup (born August 24, 1938) is an American engineer and professor in urban planning.

The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup