Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton
About
Dr. Erualdo R. González's research and teaching interests are community development, participatory community planning, urban politics and policy, and healthy communities. His work examines the intersection of these with race, ethnicity, class, and immigration, with an emphasis on Chicana/o-Latina/o communities.
Current Work:
Professor González's book, Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots (Routledge), spans forty years and provides an in-depth case study of the new urbanism, creative class, and transit-oriented models of planning and their implementation in Santa Ana, California, one of the United States’ most Mexican communities. It provides an intimate analysis of how revitalization plans re-imagine and alienate a place, and how community-based participation approaches address the needs and aspirations of lower-income Latino urban areas undergoing revitalization. The book provides a critical introduction to the main theoretical debates and key thinkers related to the new urbanism, transit-oriented, and creative class models of urban revitalization. It is the first book to examine contemporary models of choice for revitalization of US cities from the point of view of a Latina/o-majority central city, and thus initiates new lines of analysis and critique of models for Latino inner city neighborhood and downtown revitalization in the current period of socio-economic and cultural change.
You can listen to a podcast about the book here.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Latin American and Latina/o studies; urban planning and urban studies
