Speakers

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 has combined design insights 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 better design, mixed land uses, and transit-oriented development. 

He coauthored, with John Massengale, the highly influential book Street Design, The Secrets of Great Cities and Towns (Wiley 2014, 2nd edition 2026). He also served as editor for The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1 (Wiley 2025) and coauthored this year's followup, The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 2.

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

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), and the Urban Guild, and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Miami School of Architecture. He is past president of the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade. Victor also serves as a board member for Tropical Audubon Society and Dade Heritage Trust.