Editorial director, Metropolitics. Recently published: "Food Deserts and Real Estate-Led Social Policy." (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research); "Who Works in a Working Region? Inclusive Innovation in the New Manufacturing Economy" (Regional Studies, with Nichola Lowe), and "The Maker Movement and Urban Economic Development" in the Journal of the American Planning Association (with Greg Schrock, Marc Doussard and others). Academic consultant to the State of Urban Manufacturing study (Urban Manufacturing Alliance). Book project, 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.