Revel Sims

About Revel Sims

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program. I am also an affiliate in the Department of Geography, the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), and the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies. I investigate gentrification and displacement.

Selected Publications

• Squeezed in and pushed out: dual and contradictory displacements in Santa Ana, CA (2023) https://www.tandfonline.com/do...  
• Measuring the Effect of Gentrification on Displacement: Multifamily Housing and Eviction in Wisconsin's Madison Urban Region (2021) https://www.tandfonline.com/do...
• More than gentrification: geographies of capitalist displacement in Los Angeles 1994–1999 (2016) https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Recent Courses Taught

• Planning Thought and Practice (URPL 781)
• Gentrification and Urban Restructuring (URPL 512)
• Whiteness and Racial Formation (CHICLA 315)