Stephen Pham

Research and Professional Interests

My research interests are in analyzing the local, regional, and transnational forces and processes driving socio-spatial inequalities across neighbourhoods in Canada and the US, particularly as it relates to neighbourhood change, suburban poverty, and gentrification. I am particularly drawn to analyses of housing markets, household indebtedness, and the role of planning in producing and reproducing socio-spatial inequalities across metropolitan regions.

Why Geography, Geomatics and Environment at UTM?

For the opportunity to work with Professor Alan Walks, who has been a great mentor and research supervisor throughout my academic career.

Publications

• Pham, S. (Manuscript submitted for publication). “Exit strategies: how real estate investors create narratives of financial independence, freedom, and agency”. Journal of Cultural Geography. 36 pages.
• Pham, S. (2024). “Places left behind? Declining inner suburbs in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area, 1980–2015”. Cities, 146, 104726.