Pablo Mendez
Biographic Data
| ID | 76892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Mendez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendez |
| SIGNATURE | MENDEZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9249-0884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Crossing paths crossing perspectives: Urban studies in British Columbia and Quebec , edited by Meg Holden and Sandra Breux
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: Hysteresis and homeorhesis
The notion of regional economic resilience has come to the forefront of economic geography and regional studies, resulting in numerous conceptual developments. Despite recent attention, the link between regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths is still not well understood. This article provides a conceptual framework and method for examining that link. To do so, we draw on the notions of hysteresis and homeorhesis to assess the t…
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
Encounters with difference in the subdivided house: The case of secondary suites in Vancouver
Policies that encourage tenure mix as a strategy to help narrow socio-spatial distance between homeowner households and their renter counterparts have a long and controversial history in North American and European cities. Research that seeks to evaluate the merits of such policies has typically focused on the frequency of encounters between these two types of household, at the expense of the quality of this contact. Accessory apartments in subdi…
Linkages between the formal and informal sectors in a Canadian housing market: Vancouver and its secondary suite rentals
Key Messages The market in unauthorized secondary suite rentals in Vancouver represents an instance of market informality practiced by middle‐class households in the global north. This informal market enacts a series of backward linkages with formal markets related to consumption goods, labour, land, and finance. Institutional mechanisms at the federal and local government levels shape these linkages in ways that tend to benefit homeowner‐landlor…
Professional experts and lay knowledge in Vancouver's accessory apartment rental market
Over the past few decades, many homeowners in North American cities have engaged in the practice of converting under-utilised spaces in their house (such as basements and attics) into self-contained apartments known as accessory dwelling units or secondary suites. Such apartments are then often rented out in order to generate 'mortgage helper' revenue. Homeowners-cum-landlords often benefit from professional expertise received from real estate ag…
Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space
Current research depicts suburbs as becoming more heterogeneous in terms of socio-economic status. Providing a novel analysis, this paper engages with that research by operationalising suburban ways of living (homeownership, single-family dwelling occupancy and automobile use) and relating them to the geography of income across 26 Canadian metropolitan areas. We find that suburban ways of living exist in new areas and remain associated with highe…
Subterranean Commodification: Informal Housing and the Legalization of Basement Suites in Vancouver from 1928 to 2009
This article draws on Margaret Radin's theorization of 'contested commodities' to explore the process whereby informal housing becomes formalized while also being shaped by legal regulation. In seeking to move once-informal housing into the domain of official legality, cities can seldom rely on a simple legal framework of private-law principles of property and contract. Instead, they face complex trade-offs between providing basic needs and affor…
Para una Mejor Comprensión del Desarrollo: Análisis conceptual, lógica para su abordaje e instrumentos para su medición
"En el presente documento se exponen algunas reflexiones en torno a la importancia que posee la lógicacross nacional para la realización de estudios vinculados al desarrollo. Se plantea una revisión de conceptos fundamentales como el de desarrollo y la necesidad de la equivalencia funcional. El documento continúa con una reflexión guiada desde la noción de desarrollo social; asumiendo críticamente que el desarrollo se ha plasmado como un intento …
Pitting morality against the harms of market freedom
The Moral Underground. How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy, Lisa Dodson. The New Press, New York, 2009, 240 pp., ISBN 9781595584724, US$24.95 (hbk). Millions of Americans today work at
Foreclosing the Dream: How America’s Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs by William H. Lucy
Transnational Tense: Immigration and Inequality in American Housing Markets
Spatial assimilation theory, the traditional framework for analysing urban immigration and housing, was deeply shaped by the historical–geographic contingencies of American urbanism in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet the most recent and forceful challenge to assimilationist research—transnational urbanism—is also influenced by distinctive contemporary circumstances and epistemological priorities, creating a tense and unproductive dichotomy. We contend t…
Immigrant residential geographies and the ‘spatial assimilation’ debate in Canada, 1997–2007
Race, Gender, and Statistical Representation: Predatory Mortgage Lending and the US Community Reinvestment Movement
American mortgage markets, once arenas of discrimination by exclusion, now operate as venues of segmentation and discrimination by inclusion: credit is widely available, but its terms vary enormously. One market segment involves sophisticated predatory practices in which certain groups of borrowers are targeted for high-cost credit that strips out home equity and worsens the risks of delinquency, default, and foreclosure. Unfortunately, it has be…
Subterranean Commodification: Informal Housing and the Legalization of Basement Suites in Vancouver from 1928 to 2009
This article draws on Margaret Radin's theorization of 'contested commodities' to explore the process whereby informal housing becomes formalized while also being shaped by legal regulation. In seeking to move once-informal housing into the domain of official legality, cities can seldom rely on a simple legal framework of private-law principles of property and contract. Instead, they face complex trade-offs between providing basic needs and affor…
Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space
Current research depicts suburbs as becoming more heterogeneous in terms of socio-economic status. Providing a novel analysis, this paper engages with that research by operationalising suburban ways of living (homeownership, single-family dwelling occupancy and automobile use) and relating them to the geography of income across 26 Canadian metropolitan areas. We find that suburban ways of living exist in new areas and remain associated with highe…
Race, Gender, and Statistical Representation: Predatory Mortgage Lending and the US Community Reinvestment Movement
American mortgage markets, once arenas of discrimination by exclusion, now operate as venues of segmentation and discrimination by inclusion: credit is widely available, but its terms vary enormously. One market segment involves sophisticated predatory practices in which certain groups of borrowers are targeted for high-cost credit that strips out home equity and worsens the risks of delinquency, default, and foreclosure. Unfortunately, it has be…
Linkages between the formal and informal sectors in a Canadian housing market: Vancouver and its secondary suite rentals
Key Messages The market in unauthorized secondary suite rentals in Vancouver represents an instance of market informality practiced by middle‐class households in the global north. This informal market enacts a series of backward linkages with formal markets related to consumption goods, labour, land, and finance. Institutional mechanisms at the federal and local government levels shape these linkages in ways that tend to benefit homeowner‐landlor…
Professional experts and lay knowledge in Vancouver's accessory apartment rental market
Over the past few decades, many homeowners in North American cities have engaged in the practice of converting under-utilised spaces in their house (such as basements and attics) into self-contained apartments known as accessory dwelling units or secondary suites. Such apartments are then often rented out in order to generate 'mortgage helper' revenue. Homeowners-cum-landlords often benefit from professional expertise received from real estate ag…
Transnational Tense: Immigration and Inequality in American Housing Markets
Spatial assimilation theory, the traditional framework for analysing urban immigration and housing, was deeply shaped by the historical–geographic contingencies of American urbanism in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet the most recent and forceful challenge to assimilationist research—transnational urbanism—is also influenced by distinctive contemporary circumstances and epistemological priorities, creating a tense and unproductive dichotomy. We contend t…
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: Hysteresis and homeorhesis
The notion of regional economic resilience has come to the forefront of economic geography and regional studies, resulting in numerous conceptual developments. Despite recent attention, the link between regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths is still not well understood. This article provides a conceptual framework and method for examining that link. To do so, we draw on the notions of hysteresis and homeorhesis to assess the t…
Encounters with difference in the subdivided house: The case of secondary suites in Vancouver
Policies that encourage tenure mix as a strategy to help narrow socio-spatial distance between homeowner households and their renter counterparts have a long and controversial history in North American and European cities. Research that seeks to evaluate the merits of such policies has typically focused on the frequency of encounters between these two types of household, at the expense of the quality of this contact. Accessory apartments in subdi…
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
Race, Gender, and Statistical Representation: Predatory Mortgage Lending and the US Community Reinvestment Movement
American mortgage markets, once arenas of discrimination by exclusion, now operate as venues of segmentation and discrimination by inclusion: credit is widely available, but its terms vary enormously. One market segment involves sophisticated predatory practices in which certain groups of borrowers are targeted for high-cost credit that strips out home equity and worsens the risks of delinquency, default, and foreclosure. Unfortunately, it has be…
Immigrant residential geographies and the ‘spatial assimilation’ debate in Canada, 1997–2007
Transnational Tense: Immigration and Inequality in American Housing Markets
Spatial assimilation theory, the traditional framework for analysing urban immigration and housing, was deeply shaped by the historical–geographic contingencies of American urbanism in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet the most recent and forceful challenge to assimilationist research—transnational urbanism—is also influenced by distinctive contemporary circumstances and epistemological priorities, creating a tense and unproductive dichotomy. We contend t…
Para una Mejor Comprensión del Desarrollo: Análisis conceptual, lógica para su abordaje e instrumentos para su medición
"En el presente documento se exponen algunas reflexiones en torno a la importancia que posee la lógicacross nacional para la realización de estudios vinculados al desarrollo. Se plantea una revisión de conceptos fundamentales como el de desarrollo y la necesidad de la equivalencia funcional. El documento continúa con una reflexión guiada desde la noción de desarrollo social; asumiendo críticamente que el desarrollo se ha plasmado como un intento …
Pitting morality against the harms of market freedom
The Moral Underground. How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy, Lisa Dodson. The New Press, New York, 2009, 240 pp., ISBN 9781595584724, US$24.95 (hbk). Millions of Americans today work at
Foreclosing the Dream: How America’s Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs by William H. Lucy
Suburban ways of living and the geography of income: How homeownership, single-family dwellings and automobile use define the metropolitan social space
Current research depicts suburbs as becoming more heterogeneous in terms of socio-economic status. Providing a novel analysis, this paper engages with that research by operationalising suburban ways of living (homeownership, single-family dwelling occupancy and automobile use) and relating them to the geography of income across 26 Canadian metropolitan areas. We find that suburban ways of living exist in new areas and remain associated with highe…
Subterranean Commodification: Informal Housing and the Legalization of Basement Suites in Vancouver from 1928 to 2009
This article draws on Margaret Radin's theorization of 'contested commodities' to explore the process whereby informal housing becomes formalized while also being shaped by legal regulation. In seeking to move once-informal housing into the domain of official legality, cities can seldom rely on a simple legal framework of private-law principles of property and contract. Instead, they face complex trade-offs between providing basic needs and affor…
Professional experts and lay knowledge in Vancouver's accessory apartment rental market
Over the past few decades, many homeowners in North American cities have engaged in the practice of converting under-utilised spaces in their house (such as basements and attics) into self-contained apartments known as accessory dwelling units or secondary suites. Such apartments are then often rented out in order to generate 'mortgage helper' revenue. Homeowners-cum-landlords often benefit from professional expertise received from real estate ag…
Linkages between the formal and informal sectors in a Canadian housing market: Vancouver and its secondary suite rentals
Key Messages The market in unauthorized secondary suite rentals in Vancouver represents an instance of market informality practiced by middle‐class households in the global north. This informal market enacts a series of backward linkages with formal markets related to consumption goods, labour, land, and finance. Institutional mechanisms at the federal and local government levels shape these linkages in ways that tend to benefit homeowner‐landlor…
Encounters with difference in the subdivided house: The case of secondary suites in Vancouver
Policies that encourage tenure mix as a strategy to help narrow socio-spatial distance between homeowner households and their renter counterparts have a long and controversial history in North American and European cities. Research that seeks to evaluate the merits of such policies has typically focused on the frequency of encounters between these two types of household, at the expense of the quality of this contact. Accessory apartments in subdi…
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
Crossing paths crossing perspectives: Urban studies in British Columbia and Quebec , edited by Meg Holden and Sandra Breux
Regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths: Hysteresis and homeorhesis
The notion of regional economic resilience has come to the forefront of economic geography and regional studies, resulting in numerous conceptual developments. Despite recent attention, the link between regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth paths is still not well understood. This article provides a conceptual framework and method for examining that link. To do so, we draw on the notions of hysteresis and homeorhesis to assess the t…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)