Position

Head of Department of Socio-Economic Geography
Head of RECOURSE Centre of Excellence (Research and Education Centre for Urban Socio-Economic Development)

Research interests

• urban and regional policy
• development of metropolitan regions
• theory and methodology of regional studies
• studies of place
• territorial identity

Projects

• POLONEZ – Beyond Core-Periphery Debates
• COST Action – ENGAGER
• EVALUATE
• EUBORDERSCAPES
• Smart City – Regional Governance for Sustainability
• Gdynia Development Strategy 2030
• The impact of gentrification and social exclusion on socio-spatial restructuring in inner-city of large cities: Warsaw, Lodz, Gdansk after 1990
• Creative vs. created cities
• Blue Economy
• Economic Crisis: Resilience of Regions
• A living space of Poles
• Local Scenarios of Demographic Change
• Pomerania 2030
• EUDIMENSIONS
• conDENSE
• ENCORA
• Bridging old and new divisions in regional governance between “core” and “periphery” in Europe’s “east” and “west”
• City Project
• RECOURSE Centre of Excellence

Selected publications

Books

• Zieliński T., Sagan I., Surosz W., (red.), 2018, Interdisciplinary Approaches for Sustainable Development Goals. Economic Growth, Social Inclusion and Environmental Protection. Springer.
• Masik G., Sagan I., Frankowski J., Stępień J., 2017, Warunki życia oraz usługi społeczne w Gdyni. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. [PL]
• Sagan I., 2017, Miasto. Nowa kwestia i nowa polityka. Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR, Warszawa. [PL]
• Sagan I., Szmytkowska M. (red.), 2012, City in times of neoliberal urbanism, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk. [PL]
• Sagan I., Canowiecki Z., 2011, Between integration and competition. Gdansk-Gdynia Metropolitan Area, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa. [PL]
• Sagan I., Smith D.M., (red.), 2005, Society, economy, environment – towards the sustainable city. University of Gdańsk, Department of Economic Geography, Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Gdańsk-Poznań.
• Sagan I., Halkier H. (red.), 2005, Regionalism Contested. Institution, Society and Governance. Ashgate, Aldershot.
• Sagan I., Czepczyński M. (red.), 2004, Featuring the quality of urban life in contemporary cities of Eastern and Western Europe. University of Gdańsk, Department of Economic Geography, Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Gdańsk-Poznań.
• Sagan I., Czepczyński M. (red.), 2003, The concept and contemporary interpretations of region. Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdansk, Gdańsk – Poznań. [PL]
• Sagan I., Czepczyński M. (red.), 2001, Selected research problems of social geography in Poland. Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdansk, Gdańsk. [PL]
• Sagan I., 2000, The stage of conflicts and co-operation. Cities development in the light of urban regime theory. Gdansk University Press, Gdansk. [PL]

Articles

• Sagan I., Kolosov V., Studzińska D., Zotova M., Sebentsov A., Nowicka K.,
  2018, The local border traffic zone experiment as an instrument of cross-border integration. The case of Polish-Russian borderland, Geographia Polonica, 91 (1), 95-112.
• Sagan I., 2016, Young democracy and neoliberal urban policy, Sociological Review 65(1), 9-26. [PL]
• Masik G., Sagan I., 2016, Strategies and tools supporting economic resilience: The case of some European regions, Studia Regionalne i Lokalne 66(4), 5-29. [PL]
• Sagan I., 2014, Integrate to compete. Gdansk-Gdynia Metropolitan Area, Urban Research and Practice 7(3), 302-319.
• Sagan I., Masik G., 2013, Economic resilience. The case study of Pomorskie Region, Raumforschung und Raumordnung 72(2), 153-164.
• Grabkowska M., Pancewicz Ł., Sagan I., 2013, The Impact of Web-based Media on Evolution of Participatory Urban Planning and E-democracy in Poland, International Journal of E-Planning Research 2(3), 1-16.
• Sagan I., Grabkowska M., 2012, Urban Regeneration in Gdansk, Poland: Local Regimes and Tensions Between Top-Down Strategies and Endogenous Renewal, European Planning Studies 20(7), 1135-1154.
• Miazga A., Sagan I., 2011, European funds support and development policy in Eastern Poland. Studia Regionalne i Lokalne 46(4), 5-29. [PL]
• Marcinczak S., Sagan I., 2011, The socio-spatial restructuring of Łódz, Poland. Urban Studies 48(9), 1789-1809.
• Sagan I., 2010, Post-Socialist Transformation, European Neighbourhood and Civil Society Networks between Poland, Russia and Ukraine: a Case of Multilevel Contingency. Journal of European Integration 32(5), 439–456.
• Sagan I., 2004, Contemporary regional studies – theory, methodology and practice. Studia Regionalne i Lokalne 16(2), 25-39. [PL]

Book chapters

• Sagan I., Masik G., 2018, The economic crisis and the Pomorskie region of Poland: a case study of resistance [in:] G. Bristow, A. Healy (red.), Economic crisis and the resilience of regions, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 25-40.
• Grabkowska M., Sagan I., Pancewicz Ł., 2015. The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland [in:] C.N. Silva (red.), Emerging Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning, IGI Global, Hershey, 93-113.
• Sagan I., 2013, Challenges of regional and metropolitan policy in Poland, [in:] I. Kovacs, J. Scott, Z. Gal (eds.), Territorial Cohesion in Europe. For the 70th Anniversary of the Transdanubian Research Institute, Institute for Regional Studies, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pecs, 402-411.
• Sagan I., Grabkowska M., 2013, Negotiating participatory regeneration in the post-socialist inner city, [in:] M. E. Leary, J. McCarthy (red.) The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration, Routledge, 433-442.
• Kabisch S., Sagan I., 2011, The Inner City In Focus [in:] A. Haase, A. Steinführer, S. Kabisch, K. Grossmann, R. Hall (eds), Residential Change and Demographic Challenge. The Inner City of East Central Europe in the 21st Century, Ashgate, 85-99.
• Sagan I., 2009, Urban governance. The appeal of a concept and disillusion of a practice. [in:] G. Gorzelak, M. Szczepański, W. Ślęzak-Tazbir (red.), Men – City – Region. Relations and interactions, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa, 73-82. [PL]
• Sagan I., 2008, Regions, New Regionalism and Regime Theory: Deciphering Post-Socialist Institutional Change. [in:] J. Scott (red.) De-coding New Regionalism. Shifting Socio-political Contexts in Central Europe and Latin America. Ashgate, Aldershot, 93-109.
• Sagan I., 2008, City as a subject of geographical studies. [in:] B. Jałowiecki (red.) The city as a subject of scientific studies on the beginning of XXI century. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa, 105-119. [PL]
• Sagan I., 2005, Polish metropolis development perspectives in the period of global and post-socialist transformation. [w:] P. Lorens (red.) Integration and disintegration of metropolitan areas. Urbanista, Warszawa, 65-75. [PL]

Applied works and projects

• Sagan I., Orłowski P., Szlachetko J.H., 2017, Rozdział 1. Przepisy ogólne. Komentarz do art. 2. [in:] J.H. Szlachetko, K. Borówka (red.), Ustawa o rewitalizacji. Komentarz. Tom 1. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk, 23-43. [PL]
• Sagan I., Martinez-Fernandez C., Weyman T., 2013, Pomorskie Region: Responding to Demographic Transitions Towards 2035, OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Working Papers Series, OECD Publishing.