Herman Geyer worked in diverse planning disciplines in South Africa and the UK including Environmental Planning, Development Economics, Regional Statistics, and Urban Planning. He has been a lecturer at CRUISE since 2011 lecturing on subjects as diverse as Socio-Environmental Systems, Urban Sociology, Spatial Economics, Regional Science, Urban Design, and Public Infrastructure. Dr Geyer has published more than 38 academic papers and successfully supervised 37 Masters and Doctoral dissertations. His research interests include Urban Planning, Economic Development, Informality, Transportation Geography, Medical Geography, Environmental Geography, Urbanism, Regional Science, Urban Design, Demographics, and Public Infrastructure. He is a Steering Committee Member at the International Geography Union Urban Commission.
- MSc (Regional and Urban Planning) – London School of Economics and Political Science, 2011
- BA (Town and Regional Planning) – University of Pretoria (Cum Laude), 2007
- Economic geography, particularly the morphological development of urban regions over time,
- The economic and spatial effects of policy in terms of it’s effect on population settlement patterns and firm location in a dual-sector economy.
