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SSandra 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 an regional research, University of Vienna (2017-2019). Since May 2022, is Sandra Guinand researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR).

Forschungsbereiche

• Cultural heritage processes
• Public-private partnerships and urban redevelopment projects
• Urban regeneration
• Tourism and gentrification
• Photography as a qualitative research method

Projekte

• Collaborative and visual ethnography (2024-2025). Innovative and qualitative research methods. Housing Transformation in Bratislava and Vienna.
  Lead: Institute for urban and regional research, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Institute of social anthropology, Comenius University
  Funding: Austria-Slovakia Action project, Oead-SAIA

• COMMONPATHS. (2022-2026). Commonification: transition pathways for urban sustainability. SNF/FNS (Swiss national science foundation). 
  Lead: Institute of Geography, University of Bern; Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern; 
  Partners: Sustainability Research Institute University of Leeds; John Cabot University Rome; Department of Sociology, University of Ghana; International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  Funding: SNF/FNS (Swiss national science foundation). 
  https://commonpaths.unibe.ch/

• SUSTHERIT. (2024-2027). Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for a sustainable European housing stock.
  Lead: Institute for urban and regional research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  Partners: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University; IREMAM, Aix-Marseille University; Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde; Construction heritage and preservation,  ETHZürich
  Funding: FFG (Austrian research promotion agency), Belmont Forum and JPI call

• TransHerit. (2024-2027). TransHerit. Towards a new heritage regime? Financialisation of the historic housing stock (Gründerzeit) in Vienna and Budapest. 
  Lead: Institute for urban and regional research, Austrian Academy of Sciences; 
  Partners: Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest; HUB Architekten ZT GmbH
  Funding: FWF (Austrian science fund)
  https://www.oeaw.ac.at/projects/transherit#c227443

• HerEntrEp. (2024-2026). “Heritage entrepreneurs": Mechanisms, instruments and sustainability of heritage redevelopment projects in France and Quebec.
  Lead: Irest, University of Paris1-Sorbonne
  Partners: Department of Geography, University of Laval; ESPI Bordeaux
  Funding: ANR (French national research agency & Fonds de recherche du Québec)

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen

• Mitglied der Swiss Federation of Urban Planners

Preise und Auszeichnungen

• PhD Thesis Award from the Faculty of geosciences and the envrionment, Lausanne University

Links

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Aktuelle Publikationen

Guinand, S., Lélek, V. É., & Bleyer-Simon, K. (2026). Historic building stock in tension: controversial urban transformations in Budapest. European Planning Studies, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2026.2641774

Gravari-Barbas, M., Shen, C., Lu, Y., Guinand, S. (2026). ‘Consuming Heritage’ in Tianjin's Former International Concessions: Leisure, Tourism, and Experiential Shopping, Between the Local and the Global. In Paiva, S. & P. Guimaraes (eds.). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the City Retail, and Consumption. London: Wiley.

Gravari-Barbas, M., Guinand, S., (eds.). (2025). Handbook of Tourism Gentrification. Concepts, Spaces, Features. London : Edward Elgar Publishing.

Gravari-Barbas, M., Guinand, S. (2025). The relationship between gentrification and tourism, mobile world current situation and future prospects. In M. Gravari-Barbas & S.Guinand (eds.). Handbook of Tourism Gentrification. Concepts, Spaces, Features. (pp. 1-18). London : Edward Elgar Publishing.

Guinand, S. (2025). Tourism gentrification: a literature review. In M. Gravari-Barbas, & S. Guinand,(eds.). Handbook of Tourism Gentrification. Concepts, Spaces, Features. (pp. 22-38). London: Edward Elgar Publishing

Guinand, S.,Lélek, V., Musil, R. (2025). The de-commodification and the re-commodification of Vienna’s Gründerzeit historic housing stock. In B. Knauer & L. Demeter (eds.). Transforming Cities: Planning and Preserving in Historic Urban Contexts. (pp. 221-239). Vienna: TU Wien Academic Press.. DOI: 10.34727/2025/isbn.978-3-85448-077-8

Guinand, S., Lélek, V. (2025). Les transformations du bâti historique de la période Gründerzeit à Vienne (Autriche), GéoConfluence, dossier des villes en métropoles, online, https://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/dossiersthematiques/ de-villes-en-metropoles/articles-scientifiques/grunderzeit-vienneautriche

Gomes, P., Guinand, S. (2024). Opération urbaine. In J. Blain & L. Brown (Eds.) Les grandes notions de l'urbanisme. Pour les métiers de l'immobilier. Paris: Editions Dunod.