Dr. Henry Taylor
University at Buffalo
Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Director, Center for Urban Studies
201G Hayes Hall
3435 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214-3087
Email: htaylor@buffalo.edu
(716) 829-2133 ext 212
Professor Taylor is the founding Director of the University at Buffalo Center for Urban Studies
(CENTER) and a full professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UB. Dr.
Taylor is also the coordinator of the department's Community Development and Urban
Management Specialization. He teaches courses in race, class, and gender in the city and in
community development and urban management.
As an urban planner, Dr. Taylor participates in projects on brownfield redevelopment, economic
development, and neighborhood planning and community development. In 2005, he received
the prestigious HUD Community Outreach Partnership Grant to launch a community
development project in the Fruit Belt and Martin Luther King, Jr. neighborhoods.