Dave Dewar holds the BP chair in City and Regional Planning and is convenor of the City and Regional Planning degree programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has lectured widely in other countries. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Jaycees Four Outstanding Young South Africans award, and the Ernest Oppenheimer Travel Fellowship (twice). He was a founder member, and for many years, director, of the Urban Problems Research Unit. He is author or co-author of 9 books and over 200 monographs and articles on city and regional planning and in 1997 was elected a Life Fellow of the University. He also consults widely in Southern Africa and for the last two years has been core consultant to the City of Cape Town in drawing up a Spatial Development Framework for the city. In 1997 he was appointed to the National Development and Planning Commission, charged, inter alia, with drawing up a Green Paper on planning in South Africa. The Commission has recently completed its work.