Daniel D'Oca

Daniel D’Oca is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Previously, as an Associate Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he coordinated a core urban planning studio, led interdisciplinary, client-based option studios about housing in the US, and taught seminars about community engagement. Daniel is co-editor of The State of Housing Design (2023) as well as the book’s forthcoming 2027 edition.

Daniel is also principal and co-founder of the New York-based urban design and planning firm Interboro Partners, where he leads plans at a variety of scales, park and open space projects, and community engagement campaigns that utilize creative materials to help reach audiences that might not otherwise participate in conventional planning and design processes. With Interboro, Daniel has also curated a number of exhibitions and has written extensively about urbanization in the US. Interboro’s book The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion—now in its second edition—was published in 2017. Daniel has won many awards with Interboro for the firm’s participatory, place-based projects.

Daniel holds a master’s in urban planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.