What is so fascinating about your research area?
I am particularly interested in the relation urban space can foster with individuals and how this leads to a certain socio-economic dynamic that may exclude some and invite others. I find that researchers have a certain responsibility to point out at issues, phenomena that may challenge fair, safe and sustainable urban environments for all.
Which central message should your students remember?
Students should be motivated and enthusiastic about the topic and discipline they have chosen to learn. After my course, I hope that students will look at the built environment differently and get a better understanding of the social dimensions embedded within housing, buildings, public spaces. This perspective raises challenges in urban studies. I hope students will be eager to tackle some of them.
Why did you decide to do research and teach at our Faculty?
I found Vienna a fascinating city to study but also to experience. My research focuses on urban regeneration and urban redevelopment with a specific focus on heritage and public-private partnerships. In Vienna, I am interested in the specific housing environment and its current transformations. I am particularly concerned with the transformation of Gründerzeit housing stock through financialization and how it affects tangible and intangible dimensions of preservation. I have had the chance to meet Prof. Krellenberg before and collaborate with Yvonne Franz previously. We have many common research interests around housing and space production.
Which three publications characterise your work?
Guinand, S. (2022). Post-régénération urbaine. Postérités et discontinuités des festivals marketplaces. Gollion: Editions Infolio.
Guinand, S., R. Rogerson (2022). “Heritage, culture and city centre performance”. In R. Rogerson & B. Giddings (eds.). The Future of City Centre, Routeldge.
Guinand, S. (2020): Re-arranging public private partnerships. The case of South Street SeaportNew York, Journal of urban affairs.
Thank you & welcome to our Faculty!
- Dr. Sandra Guinand is an urban planner and geographer. She holds a doctorate in geosciences and the environment from the University of Lausanne and in geography from the University of Paris 1-Sorbonne, and is an associate researcher at EIREST Paris 1-Sorbonne University. She was a Swiss National Science Foundation visiting scholar (2014-2016) at the Center for place, culture and politics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Johns Hopkins University as well as at the Department of Geography and Regional research, University of Vienna (2017-2019). Since September 2022, is Sandra Guinand associate researcher at the Ecole Supérieure en Immobilier (ESPI) Bordeaux.
Her research interests are urban regeneration projects, and socio-economical transformations of urban landscapes, with a specific focus on heritage processes, public-private partnerships and tourism. - Link: Les enseignants-chercheurs - ESPI - Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières (groupe-espi.fr)
- Working group / host professor: https://geographie.univie.ac.at/en/working-groups/urban-studies/Urban Studies / Kerstin Krellenberg
- Courses in the summer term 2023:
