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New UCLA Report Looks into the High Cost to Build Parking
For new apartments, the research found that building required parking adds roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per unit, and disproportionately increases the cost to build smaller apartments
March 2, 2026
Parking Titan Donald Shoup’s Legacy Continues
A new book and a new UCLA center honor the world's foremost expert on parking, Donald Shoup, who passed away in February
October 9, 2025
Eliminating Municipal Parking Requirements Does Not Equate To Zero-Parking Homes
No, the Blumenfield-Raman parking reform motion will not result in a proliferation of "parking-free developments"
June 12, 2025
Read Excerpts from Donald Shoup’s ‘Parking and the City’
Donate to Streetsblog L.A. this week to win a signed copy of Donald Shoup's Parking and the City
June 13, 2018
Streetsblog L.A. Summer Fund Drive – Donate Now, Win a Signed Book
Donate now to support our coverage of sustainable transportation issues, and win signed books by Donald Shoup and Joe Linton.
June 6, 2018
Donald Shoup Interview, Part 2: Pasadena, Ventura, Mexico City, A.B. 744
Donald Shoup, parking's one and only rock star, is retiring from UCLA this year. Tomorrow, the college is sending him off with a fundraiser retirement dinner atop parking structure number 32. You can attend, and hobnob with Shoup himself, by donating to the Shoup Fellowship fund for future UCLA planning students.
May 29, 2015
Don’t Miss Part 1 of Joe’s Interview with Donald Shoup
Over the weekend, Joe Linton provided the perfect long-weekend reading for Livable Streets Junkies, an interview with the parking rock star Donald Shoup. The retiring professor had so much to say at his Streetsblog exit interview, that we're splitting the piece into two parts. Part II will run on Thursday or Friday of this week.
May 26, 2015
Donald Shoup Interview, Part 1: Adaptive Reuse, Parking Cash-Out, Teaching
Donald Shoup is one of my heroes. He’s the authority on parking: how it shapes cities, how it enables driving, and how cities can fix the problems that parking policies create. He has a legion of followers who proudly call themselves Shoupistas. Shoup is retiring from UCLA this year. The college is sending him off with a fundraiser retirement dinner atop parking structure number 32 on Saturday May 30. You can attend, and hobnob with Shoup himself, by donating to the Shoup Fellowship fund for future UCLA planning students.
May 23, 2015
Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley
[UPDATE: Here is a link to a video of Professor Shoup's talk and here is a link to the Q&A portion of the evening.]
March 20, 2014
How Flexible Parking Requirements Spur Economic Development: Lessons from Santa Monica
Editor's Note: Streetsblog Los Angeles founding board member Carter Rubin recently finished his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at UCLA. In the following article, he recaps the findings from his capstone “client project” for the Urban Design Studio at the L.A. Department of City Planning. His research adviser was the inimitable parking guru, UCLA Urban Planning Professor Donald Shoup. You can read the report in its entirety here.
July 23, 2013