Associate Professor Pablo Mendez
Housing affordability and sustainable transportation; Low-carbon transitions and urban design
| Degrees: | B.A Honours (SFU), M.A. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 2575 |
| Email: | pablo.mendez@carleton.ca |
| Office: | B441 LA |
Biography:
I use qualitative and quantitative research methods to study a wide range of housing related questions, including barriers to access and the ways housing markets shape the metropolitan built environment. My current project examines the links between housing affordability and sustainable transportation in Canadian cities. If you would like to do graduate studies related to low-carbon urban transitions, housing, and/or transportation in metropolitan contexts, please get in touch. I am especially interested in supervising students who have data analysis and/or GIS skills, but I’m keen to hear from students who have a qualitative research background too. I also have experience and enjoy supervising mature students who have been out of university for some time. Note that if you are an international student, I’ll need you to indicate whether you are able to fund your studies in Canada. Unfortunately I do not have funding to support international students.
Research Interests:
- Housing and metropolitan change
- Urban economies, markets, and livelihoods
- Sustainable urbanization
2024 – 2025 Courses:
- GEOG 1023 Fall – Introduction to Cities and Urbanization
- GEOG 2200 Fall: In person and online – Global Connections
- GEOG 3404 Winter – Geographies of Economic Development
Recent Publications:
Ley, David, Alison Mountz, Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht (2020) Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 64(4): 438-466.
Mendez, P. (2019) Economic restructuring and housing markets in Vancouver: The role of secondary suites. BC Studies 200 (Winter): 187-214.
Mendez, P. (2018) Encounters with difference in the subdivided house: The case of secondary suites in Vancouver. Urban Studies 55(6): 1274-1289.
Mendez, P. (2017) Linkages between the formal and informal sectors in a Canadian housing market: Vancouver and its secondary suite rentals. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 61(4): 550-563.
Mendez, P. (2016) Professional experts and lay knowledge in Vancouver’s accessory apartment rental market. Environment and Planning A 48(11): 2223-2238.
Mendez, P. and N. Quastel (2015) Subterranean commodification: Informal housing and the legalization of basement suites in Vancouver from 1928 to 2009. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39(6): 1155–1171.
Mendez, P., Moos, M. and Osolen, R. (2015) Driving the commute: Getting to work in the auto-mobility city. In A. Walks (Ed.). The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics. Routledge.
Moos, M. and P. Mendez (2015) Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space. Urban Studies 52(10): 1864-1882.
Moos, M., P. Mendez, L. McGuire, E. Wyly, A. Kramer, R. Walter-Joseph, M. Williamson (2015) More continuity than change? Re-evaluating the contemporary socio-economic and housing characteristics of suburbs. Canadian Journal of Urban Research 24(2): 64-90.