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/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2023.2207248, \Measuring the Effect of Gentrification on Displacement: Multifamily Housing and Eviction in Wisconsin's Madison Urban Region\ (2021)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2021.1871931, \More than gentrification: geographies of capitalist displacement in Los Angeles 1994–1999\ (2016)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2015.1046698

Recent Courses Taught

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