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 focus my scholarly research on the intersection of city planning, immigration, and sustainable neighborhood revitalization. I use detailed narrative case studies to explore ethnic identity, equity, and bioregionalism. My research highlights and investigates equitable planning outcomes achieved by:

• Integrating an environmental ethic through bioregionalism
• Providing access to affordable housing,
• Supporting inclusive land-use policies,
• Recognizing generative types of economic development
• Providing access to public and active transportation options, and
• Designing transparent public participation mechanisms to revitalize urban cities and rural towns. 

Research Focus Areas

• Bioregional revitalization in human settlements within the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador.
• Changing ecological labor practices in Oregon's forest industry.

Courses

• Urban Planning History
• 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).