Books

• Climate Change and Food Insecurity in Mombasa: Institutional and Policy Gaps
• Sustainability in slum upgrading in the complex context of policy change: the case of Nairobi

Peer Reviewed Journals

• Sustainability Concerns in Built From Scratch Cities in Africa

• Beyond Technology: Unpacking the Challenge of Cost in Low Income Housing in Kenya

• Effects of Globalization in Training Architectural Design: A Case for a Pedagogical Shift in African Schools of Architecture
• Social Capital, Public Provisioning and Democratic Governance
• Augmenting African Public Governance with Social Capital
• Efficient Urban Flows: A Networks Approach to Understanding the Role of the Market and the State in Housing: the Cases of Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg South Africa.
• Conceptual and theoretical developments in the self-help housing: contribution through housing networks analysis in Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa

Published International Conference Proceedings 

• The Role of China in Preventing Conflicts in Africa: African Perspective

• Impacts of Climate Change on Africa: Implications for Peace and Security
•  Implications of Article 184 in Classification, Governance and Management of Urban Areas
• Nairobi: A city without a master plan
• Network analysis for resources towards low-income housing
• Agent-based modelling of urban sanitation: informal settlements in Nairobi
•  Semantic mark-up of information on sanitation initiatives in informal settlements
• Reflecting on international donor agencies’ influences on self-help housing policies in Kenya and South Africa
•  A thin veil of protection: fragility of informal tenure in Nairobi and Johannesburg
• Bottlenecks of access to housing finance by the low-income in Kenya and South Africa.
• A cost modelling design strategy for dweller-initiated transformations in urban housing.
• Myths and realities of segregation in post-apartheid human settlements in Johannesburg.
• Housing networks in different political economies: the cases of Ivory Park, Johannesburg and Dandora, Kenya.
• Slum upgrading in the complex context of policy change: the case of Nairobi.
• Theoretical conceptualisations of urban segregation and their relevance to housing in post-apartheid South Africa.
• A network approach to understanding the role of the market and the state in housing: the cases of Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg South Africa.
• Potential professional, technical, regulatory, institutional and training conflicts and opportunities opened through the People’s Housing Process (PHP) policy shift in South Africa.
• Urbanisation and housing challenges: cities in Africa.
• Sustainable Self-help Housing in South Africa.

Published Contract Research

• Understanding Tipping Points and Value Chains of Urban Processes.
• State of African Cities Report 2010 (Eastern Africa).
• State of African Cities Report 2012 (Eastern Africa).
• Pro-poor adaptation to climate change in Mombasa: Rapid risk institutional assessment & participatory climate change asset adaptation appraisal in Mombasa.
• Pro-poor adaptation to climate change in Mombasa: rapid risk institutional assessment of the city of Mombasa. The World Bank, Washington.
• Research on Construction Methods and Materials in East Africa, with a Focus on Arusha Tanzania.
• Process Mapping in Nairobi Kenya for Development Cooperation.
• Review of the Sida ECOVIC Sustainable Use of Lake Victoria. Nairobi: Sida REED.
• Towards a just & equitable climate change policy: a politico-moral call by signatories of the African Climate Appeal.
• Nairobi: Evolving Urbanism from the Perspective of Mobility.
• Island Urbanism: Spatial Segregation in Nairobi
• Evaluation of the Partnership of United Nations Associations of East Africa/United Nations Association of Sweden Supported Under Sida’s Lake Victoria Initiative
• Categories and Characteristics of Green Finance for Reduction and Climate Change Mitigation: Placing Green Finance in Relation to GHG Reduction and Climate Change.
• Equity, Rights & Justice: in Adaptation, Clean Development Mechanism & Post-Kyoto.
• International Climate Change Negotiations and North-South Relations: a Monologue.
• Africa’s Positions in International Climate Change.
• Research into environmental hazards from the biggest dumpsite in Kenya, the Dandora dumpsite. Study included explorations of community based methane gas capture solutions.
• Urban Development Perspectives:  Spaces for Sweden’s Strategy for Sub Saharan Africa.

• Consultants for the Swedish International Development Agency, Lake Victoria Initiative, Strategy for the period 2007-2009.
• Consultants for the Evaluation of the performance of the regional NGO, ‘ECOVIC’ for the duration of support by the Swedish International Development Agency, Lake Victoria Initiative. Commissioned by Sida, LVI (Published)
• Designing, Measuring and Implementing Sustainable Urban Development for the City of Johannesburg (draft) a collaborative research between the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Chalmers University, Sweden.

5.5. Other projects, publications and key international presentations

• Symbiocity, Sustainable Urban Development Programme for Kenya supported by the Embassy of Sweden (2013 – 2017)

• Development of the fundraising Strategy for the Proposed National Slums Eradication and Prevention Policy, 2013.

• Consultant for the African Strategy on Climate Change

• A Global Perspective on Engineering Sustainable Building Systems: a Collaborative Project between Eco-Build Africa (Host) University of Nairobi, Department of Architecture & University of Florida, (USA), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA).

• Nairobi, an Urban Portrait (2007 – ) a collaborative study of the city of Nairobi, covering various themes, e.g. transport, waste management, modern architecture, housing, culture, spaces for international organisation, shopping, religion, education, slum upgrading, etc. This study is undertaken together with Harvard Graduate School, USA and ETH-Studio Basel, Switzerland.