Donald Shoup, FAICP - APA Awards 2015

National Planning Award for a Planning Pioneer

Donald Shoup, FAICP

Los Angeles, California

Donald Shoup's work has redefined the relationship between transportation and land use. He has extensively studied parking as a key link between transportation and land use, with important consequences for cities, the economy, and the environment.

A Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, Shoup has served as the chair of the Department of Urban Planning and director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. He also is the editor of ACCESS magazine, which makes transportation research useful for policymakers and planning practitioners, and helps catapult academic research into the public policy debate.