Interview of Professor Donald Shoup by @danieljbmitchell

Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. His research has focused on transportation, public finance, and land economics.

This interview covers Shoup's academic interests beyond parking, his education and early career, and other topics not often touched upon in interviews focused on his parking reform work. Recorded on July 7, 2023

00:45 - Where and when was Don Shoup Born
02:48 - Shoup describes home movies from his childhood
04:00 - Shoup's first exposure to car parking
04:52 - Don's childhood after Hawai'i and through college
05:50 - Yale, Tulane, and back to Yale
06:52 - How did Don go from Electrical Engineering to Economics?
09:24 - Shoup on solving problems
10:02 - Don's experience in graduate Economics - Yale Vs. U of Chicago + Shoup TAs for Nobel Prize winner
12:28 - Early years in public finance and taxes
14:23 - Shoup becomes a Georgist! Land Value Tax!
16:38 - His first mention of parking in any publication - 1970!
20:00 - The early years at UCLA - Program Budgeting
22:20 - An offer from UCLA Urban Planning Department - 1974
23:20 - Shoup describes the early years of the UCLA School of Urban Planning and lessons learned as a teacher
29:21 - On Architecture and Urban Planning
30:35 - How Shoup got into parking
32:29 - Equity in transportation - Employer Paid Parking
34:35 - The genesis of Parking Cash Out
36:24 - His initial interest in parking was due to the equity aspect
37:03 - Reforms and AB2097
39:38 - Shout out to cities that eliminated all their parking mandates
41:11 - What would LA look like if parking mandates never happened?
43:37 - Each car has more space for parking than each human has for housing.
46:29 - Subsidies for public transportation at UCLA
53:00 - What's the best case scenario - how much can we repair our cities?
54:05 - Zoning and mandates are like malware
55:42 - The impact of recent reforms on Los Angeles and hope for the future
58:17 - One last joke ;)

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