Director del African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
Coeditor de: Voices of the Transition: The Politics, Poetics and Practices of Development in South Africa (Johannesburg: Heinemann Publishers, 2004); y Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South Africa Experiment (Cape Town: UCT Press, en prensa). Entre sus artículos académicos recientes se incluyen: "Blurring Boundaries: Fragments of an Urban Research Agenda", Urban Forum, 17(4): 398-412, 2006; y "Building with Ruins and Dreams: Exploratory thoughts on realising integrated urban development through crises", Urban Studies, 43(2): 285-304, 2006.