Pratt Institute

Education

B.A., Brown University;
New York University

Biography

Eva Hanhardt is a city and environmental planning consultant and has been teaching at Pratt since 1997. Since 2004 she has been the coordinator of the masters program in Environmental Systems Management. As a practicing planner, Eva has centered her professional activities around community-based and environmental planning. At the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, she directed a unit that assisted businesses in environmental compliance, pollution prevention and sustainable development practices. As director of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Environmental Benefits Program, she supported the development of one of the earliest community GIS systems and worked closely with environmental justice organizations. She directed the Municipal Art SocietyÂ’s Planning Center, whose mission is the support of community-based planning in low and moderate-income communities, and co-directed the ImagineNY project, which receive an award in 2002 from the American Planning Association for its facilitation of broad public participation in decisions relating to New York CityÂ’s recovery and rebuilding after the tragedy of 9/11. In addition, Eva worked for many years as a planner for the New York City Department of City Planning and was a principal author of numerous planning studies and zoning texts including the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, NYC waterfront zoning text and the Hunters Point Mixed Use zoning text.