Associate Urban Designer/ Planner
Design Workshop
Houston, Texas
Tarana Hafiz, Associate Urban Designer/ Planner, Design Workshop
As a planner and urban designer in our Houston studio, Tarana brings over ten years of national and international experience creating equitable and resilient built environments. With projects ranging from streetscape and waterfront design to community development, form-based code and park planning, Tarana is interested in developing sustainable communities, addressing problems faced within public spaces, and integrating outreach and advocacy to garner support for impactful design. She believes in collaborating with the client and stakeholders to deliver a thoughtful and multi-disciplinary solution to problem-solving while being able to communicate concepts through data visualization and storytelling. Her thought leadership has resulted in numerous planning awards for projects such as the Mont Belvieu Livable Centers Study and publications for outlets like the Planning Magazine. She serves as the DEI Chair for American Planning Association’s Sustainable Communities Division and Trustee for DW Foundation, the non-profit arm of Design Workshop. Tarana graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor’s in Architecture and Environmental Design and earned her Master of Science in Urban Design from Columbia University.
What Makes a Just City?: Assessing Tempe’s Parks
Monday, April 15, 2024
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM CT