Forthcoming: Appetite for Growth: Challenges to Scale for Food and Beverage Makers in Three U.S. Cities (Economic Development Quarterly, with Greg Schrock, Marc Doussard and others). Recently published: "Food Deserts and Real Estate-Led Social Policy." (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2017); "Who Works in a Working Region? Inclusive Innovation in the New Manufacturing Economy" (Regional Studies, with Nichola Lowe, 2018); "User fees and the permeability of public space at municipal pools and bathhouses in New York City, 1870 – present" (Urban Geography, with Naomi Adiv); Manufacturing without the firm: Challenges for the maker movement in three U.S. Cities. (Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, with Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock & others, 2017), "The Maker Movement and Urban Economic Development" in the Journal of the American Planning Association (with Marc Doussard, Greg Schrock & others, 2017). Book projects: Makers and the New Urban Manufacturing (with Doussard & Schrock), From Promise Zone to Innovation District, on neighborhood change and social mobilization in West Philadelphia's University City.

My research focuses on community and neighborhood revitalization (urban redevelopment policy, community benefits agreements, the history and politics of community development) and on jobs and employment (local labor markets, human capital policy, and the jobs impact of local economic development strategies). My work explores the challenges of planning for neighborhood revitalization under conditions of structural social inequality, and offers insights into how urban politics are mediated through policies governing the built environment. It also considers how planners and civil society organizations influence urban policy. My articles have been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Environment and Planning A, Community Development Journal, Urban Studies, Planning Theory and Practice, and Economic Development Quarterly as well as in numerous edited volumes. I am a member of the editorial board of the online open access journal Metropolitics and was its Editorial Director from 2016-2018. I am an academic consultant to the Urban Manufacturing Alliance and the Pratt Center for Community Development.