és un sociòleg sud-africà. És director de l'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); i ''Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South Africa Experiment'' (Cape Town: UCT Press, en premsa). Entre els seus articles acadèmics recents s'inclouen: ''Blurring Boundaries: Fragments of an Urban Research Agenda'', Urban Forum, 17(4): 398-412, 2006; i ''Building with Ruins and Dreams: Exploratory thoughts on realising integrated urban development through crises'', Urban Studies, 43(2): 285-304, 2006.
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