Dr. Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles will be in Buffalo to deliver two lectures at the end of January.
Shoup’s influential book, The High Cost of Free Parking (2005, American Planning Association), is leading a growing number of cities to charge fair market prices for curb parking, and dedicate the resulting revenue to finance public services in the metered districts, as well as reduce or remove off-street parking requirements.
Shoup will visit as the 2010 Clarkson Chair through The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. He has extensively studied parking as a key link between transportation and land use, with important consequences for cities, the economy, and the environment. His research on employer-paid parking led to passage of California’s parking cash-out law and to changes in the Internal Revenue Code to encourage parking cash out.
A Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Shoup has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the World Bank. He has also served as Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA.
The public is invited to attend the following two lectures at no cost. Note to students: The sessions have been submitted for CM credit from the American Institute of Certified Planners.
The High Cost of Free Parking
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Hohn Lecture Hall
Research Studies Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Elm and Carlton Streets
Buffalo, New York 14263
Graduated Density Zoning for Infill Redevelopment
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
301 Crosby Hall
South Campus, University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York 14214
See this past story by Steel concerning Dr. Shoup’s work.