Manie Geyer – Director (CRUISE), Chair (Statistics South Africa)

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Contact Info

T: 021 808 3107
F: 021 808 3109
E: hsgeyer@sun.ac.za

Research Interests

  • Globalisation
  • Location theory
  • Urban systems analysis
  • Demography and migration
  • Urban development policy and social polarisation

Biography

Manie Geyer is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Regional and Urban Innovation and
Statistical Exploration (CRUISE) in the Department of Geography, Stellenbosch
University. After nine years in the public sector from 1975 to 1983, ending as head of the
Administration Planning Department of the West Rand, the erstwhile local government
body for black metropolitan areas in the West Rand and Johannesburg, he started
teaching at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at North-West University. He
has coordinated a number of governmental and academic research projects locally,
nationally and internationally. His latest edited volume include: The International
Handbook of Urban Systems (2002), Global Regionalization (2006) and three volumes of
The International Handbook of Urban Policy (2007/2009/2011)—a commissioned series.

Qualifications

  • D. Phil. – University of Potchefstroom (now North West University), 1986
  • M.A. et Sc. (Planning) – University of Potchefstroom (now North West University), 1980
  • B.A. et Sc. (Planning) – University of Potchefstroom (now North West University), 1974

Publications

  • Geyer, H. S., H. S. Geyer Jr. 2014 Residential and business transformation in South Africa – Reopening the ‘dead’ capital debate, Urban Forum 25(1):35-55.
  • Geyer, H. S., H. S. Geyer, Jr., D. J. du Plessis, A. van Eeden 2014. Recent morphological trends in metropolitan South Africa, in D. O’Donoghue, Daniel (ed) Urban Transformations: Cities, Peripheries and Systems, Ashgate Publishers, UK. (Peer reviewed chapter in press)
  • Geyer H. S. Jr., H. S. Geyer & D. J. du Plessis, 2014. Primary cities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Quasars, Loose Connections, and Black Holes. International Planning Studies. Forthcoming.
  • Mookherjee, D. & H. S. Geyer, 2014. Emerging Polycentric City Regions: the National Capital Region of India, International Planning Studies. Forthcoming.
  • Hakazimana J. V. & H. S. Geyer 2013. Local variations in socio-economic inequality in South Africa according to different disparity indices. Working Document.
  • Mahlape M., H. S. Geyer Jr. & H. S. Geyer 2013. Dead capital and poverty levels in Johannesburg, South Africa. Working Document.
  • Geyer H. S. Jr., H. S. Geyer, D. J. du Plessis & A. van Eeden 2012. Differential urbanisation trends in South Africa – national, regional and local equivalents, Environment and Planning A 44(12) : 2940-2956.
  • Geyer H. S., H. S. Geyer Jr. & D. J. du Plessis 2012. Migration, geographies of marginality and informality – impacts on upper and lower ends of urban systems in the North and South. European Planning Studies 20(4) : 1–21.
  • Geyer, H. S., D. J. du Plessis, H. S. Geyer Jr. & A.van Eeden 2012. Urbanisation and migration trends in South Africa: Theory and policy implications. In M. Brezzi, M. Piacentini, K. Rosina, D. Sanchez-Serra (eds.),Redefining “urban”: a new way to measure metropolitan areas, OECD Pp.58-89. DOI :10.1787/9789264174108-en
    http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/redefining-urban_9789264174108-en;jsessionid=1q63e513hl213.x-oecd-live-02
  • Geyer, H. S. Jr., H. S. Geyer & D. J. du Plessis 2012 Differential urbanisation trends in South Africa, 2001–2007. Working Document.
  • Geyer H. S. Jr., H. S. Geyer & D. J. du Plessis 2012. Differential urbanisation: Population redistribution trends in South Africa between 2001 and 2007, Working Document.
  • Geyer, H. S., H. Coetzee, D. J. du Plessis, R. Donaldson & P. Nijkamp 2011 Recent business transformation in intermediate-sized cities in South Africa, Habitat International 35 (2): 265–274
  • Onyebueke, V. U. & H. S. Geyer 2011 Informal Sector in urban Nigeria: Reflections from almost four Decades of Research. Town and Regional Planning Journal 59: 68–80.
  • Gumbo, T. & H. S. Geyer 2011 ‘Picking up the Pieces ’: Reconstructing the informal economic sector in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Town and Regional Planning Journal 59: 56–67.
  • Geyer, H. S. & P. Nijkamp 2011 Pioneering entrepreneurship and urban transformation, Introduction to special edition of Town and Regional Planning Journal 59: i–ii.
  • du Plessis, D. J., H. S. Geyer & A. van Eeden, 2011 On the role of the informal sector in the changing economic landscape of the Cape Town metropolitan area. Social Space Journal 1: 1–20.
  • Geyer, H. S. 2011 Creativity, Wellbeing and Urban Sustainability: What the North and the South Can Learn From Each Other, in H. S. Geyer (ed.) International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 3: Issues in the Developing World, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, Hants, UK, 275–298.
  • Graizbord, B., D. Mookherjee & H.S. Geyer 2011 Differential Urban Trends: Urban Policy Implications, in H. S. Geyer (ed.) International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 3: Issues in the Developing World, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, Hants, UK, 114–132.
  • Steyn, A. & H. S. Geyer 2011 Urban form: An account of issues and views, in H. S. Geyer (ed.) International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 3: Issues in the Developing World, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, Hants, UK, 62–93.
  • Mookherjee, D. & H.S. Geyer 2011 Delhi and its Peripheral Region: Perspectives on Settlement Growth. Working Document.
  • Geyer, H. S., D. J. du Plessis, H. S. Geyer Jr., A. van Eeden 2011 Differential urbanization: recent population redistribution trends in South Africa. Working Document.
  • Geyer, H. S. Jr., H. S. Geyer, D. J. du Plessis, A. van Eeden 2011 Recent Morphological trends in metropolitan South Africa. Working Document.
  • Mookherjee, D. & H.S. Geyer 2010 Urban growth in the national capital region of India: Testing the differential urbanization model, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geografie, 102: 88–99.
  • Geyer, H. S. 2010 On the evolution of urban systems, Inaugural address, 15 June, 2010. Department of Geography, Stellenbosch University.
  • Geyer, H. S. 2010 On the evolution of urban systems, Inaugural address, 15 June, 2010. Department of Geography, SU.
  • du Plessis, D., H. S. Geyer & A. van Eeden, A. Adendorff 2010 On the role of the informal sector in the changing economic landscape of the Cape Town metropolitan area. Working paper, Department of Geography, SU.
  • Schloms, B., H. S. Geyer, D. du Plessis & A. van Eeden 2010 The Impact of urban development on agricultural land in the Cape Town Metropolitan area, Working paper, Department of Geography, SU.
  • Geyer, H. S. 2009 Development of the theory of differential urbanization: an anecdotal look, International Journal of Environmental Creation.
  • Geyer, H. S. 2009 Notes on spatial-structural change in urban South Africa – the 1990s, Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, (1) 1: 27–39
  • Geyer, H. S. 2009 The continuing urban form controversy: Toward bridging the divide, in H. S. Geyer (ed.) International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 2: Issues in the Developed World, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, Hants, UK, 195–259

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