Education

PhD (City and Regional Planning), University of California, Berkeley (2007)
MCP (City and Regional Planning), University of California, Berkeley (2002)
BS (Community and Regional Development), University of California, Davis (2000)

Summary of Research Interests

I situate my scholarly research within intersections of racial equity, immigration, and city planning. I draw on detailed narrative case studies to study ethnic identity, neighborhood revitalization (in both urban and rural context), and community change. My research identifies and examines equitable planning outcomes generated by 

• increasing affordable housing, 
• supporting inclusive land-use policies, 
• recognizing generative forms of economic development, 
• providing access to public and active transportation systems,  
• incorporating an environmental ethic, and 
• designing transparent public participation mechanisms to revitalize urban cities and rural towns. 

Research Focus Areas

• Theories and strategies of community development
• Redevelopment of marginalized low-income neighborhoods
• Interactions of planning institutions with immigrant communities

Courses

• Planning Theory and Ethics
• Human Settlements
• Justice and Urban Revitalization

Selected Awards

• Chester Rapkin Award, 2014, best planning article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
• Paul Davidoff Book Award, 2013, honorable mention, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
• Barclay Gibbs Jones Award, 2009, best dissertation in planning, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)

Selected Publications

Arroyo, John; Sandoval, Gerard Francisco; Bernstein, Joanna Ruth. “Sixty Years of Racial Equity Planning: Evolution of an Ethic”. Journal of the American Planning Association, 89:4, 438-458, (2023) DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2132986

Lindner, Christoph; Sandoval, Gerard. Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. The open-access version can be downloaded from the OAPEN Library here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47041

Sandoval, Gerardo; Rodine, Shawn. “Ranchitos: Immigrant integration via Latino sustainable agriculture”. Latino Studies Journal, 18, (2020): 151–173

Sandoval, Gerardo. “Planning the Barrio: Ethnic Identity and Struggles over Transit-Oriented, Development-Induced Gentrification”. Journal of Planning Education and Research, Online First (8-15-2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18793714

Sandoval, Gerardo. “Transforming Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects via immigrant led-revitalization:  The MacArthur Park Case”, In Immigrants and Metropolitan Revitalization. Edited by Thomas Sugrue and Domenic Vitiello, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Sandoval, Gerardo. “Shadow Transnationalism: Cross-Border networks and planning challenges of transnational unauthorized immigrant communities.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 33, no. 2 (2013): 176–193. (Recipient of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2014 Chester Rapkin Award for best article).