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Bradshaw Hovey, Ph.D.

Bradshaw Hovey

is Associate Director of the Urban Design Project, a city planner, writer, and analyst with extensive experience in urban politics, community planning processes, citizen participation, and public information. His expertise encompasses large-scale public visioning processes, strategic planning for organizations, and small group facilitation for planning and problem-solving. Hovey helped design and manage the award-winning Buffalo Neighborhood Summits. He was primary author of “Empowerment Begins With A Job,” the City of Buffalo’s 1998 Federal Empowerment Zone application, done under contract to the Urban Design Project.

Hovey was involved in creating the ground-breaking undergraduate major in Community and Environmental Planning at the University of Washington and has taught courses in housing, neighborhood planning, planning theory, and studio practice. Before his career in planning, Hovey worked for a decade as a journalist, covering a wide range of planning and political topics. He holds a BA in politics and journalism from Empire State College (SUNY); a Masters degree in Urban Planning from the University of Buffalo; and a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington.