Victor Dover – Principal and President, Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning

Victor Dover is a nationally acclaimed leader and innovator in city planning, neighborhood design, and street design.

Trained as an architect, Victor Dover’s work combines design excellence with professional pragmatism for urban planning projects around the world: revitalizing traditional towns, building iconic new places, designing pedestrian friendly streets and growing neighborhoods.

He has been leader of New Urbanism, a movement in urban planning and design that aims to create more livable, walkable and sustainable communities through pedestrian friendly design, mixed land uses, and transit-oriented development.

He coauthored, with John Massengale, a highly influential book Street Design, The Secrets of Great Cities and Towns (Wiley 2014), which is being updated with a new version out in the Fall of 2025.

Victor has been awarded the John Nolen Medal for contributions to urbanism, and in 2024 he and his partner Joe Kohl received the 2024 Seaside Prize celebrating individuals or organizations whose life’s work or accomplishments are emblematic of the Institute’s mission of inspiring livable communities. This year, he was awarded the Addison Mizner Medal for Service by the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture (ICAA).

He is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Miami. Victor also serves as president of the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade and as a board member of the National Recreation & Parks Association.

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