Hemson Simpson Lecture Series - Dr. Daniel Baldwin Hess - The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reform

Hemson Simpson Lecture Series
Raymond J. Simpson Lecture

Dr. Daniel Baldwin Hess - The Shoup Doctrine:  Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reform

February 11, 2026 5:30 PM EST - 7:30 PM EST
Event open to Public, 105 Bond Street in SBB 312
Lecture followed by Dr. Hess in conversation with Dr. Matthias Sweet, TMU SURP TransFORM Lab and Michael Hain, Program Manager, Policy and Analysis Unit Transportation Planning, City of Toronto

This lecture is part of the Hemson Simpson Lecture Series at School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University

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 everyone to rethink relationships between parking and the built environment, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and local economic development. This book celebrates Shoup's decades-long contributions to research, practice, and education and demonstrates how parking reform can support affordable housing development, lessen air pollution, and reduce automobile dependency.