Daniel B. Hess is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He develops new pathways for understanding the complex socio-economic and ethnic landscape of cities and spatial inequalities. Hess guides his research, scholarship and teaching with a drive to understand cities as more walkable and suitable to the mobility needs of all ages. He also explores equal access to resources from urban neighborhoods. He is a a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and two-time winner of the Fulbright Scholar Award . Hess is the editor of The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2026). He has studies how reforms to parking policies can make cities more equitable and livable.