Donald Shoup

August 18, 2021 | UCLA professor; expert on parking, liveable cities & the environment

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Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. Author of the landmark book The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup is a world-renowned authority on transportation, public finance and land economics. His research highlights how better parking policy can make cities more affordable, liveable and sustainable. 

The High Cost of Free Parking

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Special Guests: Kathleen Rooney, director of transportation policy and programs at Ulupono Initiative, and Katia Balassiano, Land Use Permits Division Chief, Department of Planning and Permitting, City and County of Honolulu. Moderator: Makena Coffman, Director of UH’s Institute for Sustainability and Resilience and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning.

Sponsors: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Hawai’i Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Ulupono Initiative, University of Hawai’i Economic Research Organization

Co-Sponsors: College of Social Sciences, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institute for Sustainability and Resilience, William S. Richardson School of Law