{"id":2763,"date":"2018-02-08T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&p=2763"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:53","slug":"pablo-mendez","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/pablo-mendez\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Mendez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sabbatical<\/strong>: 2020 – 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I received my PhD in Geography at the University of British Columbia, where I subsequently carried out postdoctoral work in association with the Global Suburbanisms project at York University. My research has focused on urban informality, the uses of housing, the evolution of suburban ways of living, and the settlement process of transnational migrants in metropolitan Canada. I am also interested in the links between urbanization and grassroots politics in the global north and south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • Housing and metropolitan change<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Informality and urban livelihoods<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Urbanization and grassroots politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Recent Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ley, David, Alison Mountz, Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht (2020) Housing Vancouver, 1972\u20132017: A personal urban geography and a professional response. The Canadian Geographer \/ Le G\u00e9ographe canadien 64(4): 438-466.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mendez, P. (2019) Economic restructuring and housing markets in Vancouver: The role of secondary suites. BC Studies  <\/i>200 (Winter): 187-214.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mendez, P. (2018) Encounters with difference in the subdivided house: The case of secondary suites in Vancouver. Urban Studies<\/em> 55(6): 1274-1289.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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 G\u00e9ographe canadien<\/em> 61(4): 550-563.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mendez, P. (2016) Professional experts and lay knowledge in Vancouver\u2019s accessory apartment rental market. Environment and Planning A<\/em> 48(11): 2223-2238.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/em> 39(6): 1155\u20131171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/em> 52(10): 1864-1882.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/em> 24(2): 64-90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/em>. Routledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2764,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Pablo","cu_people_last_name":"Mendez","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[52],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2763","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-geography-env-studies"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A Honours (SFU), M.A. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"pablo.mendez@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2575","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}