About Author

Gerardo Sandoval is assistant professor of community and regional planning at Iowa State University. His PhD and MCP in city and regional planning are from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Sandoval’s research, in California, Iowa, Latin America, and Japan, has focused on community impacts of urban infrastructure projects, how immigrants revitalize urban and rural communities, immigrants’ support networks, and co-adaptation of immigrant and host communities. He currently teaches Comprehensive Planning, Urban Revitalization, and Planning Theory and Methods.