TMU Planning Lecture Series: Daniel B. Hess - The SHOUP Doctrine

Daniel Baldwin Hess, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. His recent edited book The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms features 37 city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals analyze three major parking reforms proposed by Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA. First, remove off-street parking requirements; second, use market prices to manage on-street parking; third, spend the parking meter revenue to fund added public services on metered blocks. These parking reforms can align individual incentives with collective objectives and produce enormous benefits at low or no cost. All these benefits will result from subsidizing people, not parking. Shifting the cost of parking to the parkers will make cities more expensive for cars and more livable for people.

Shoup has spent his career encouraging…