Mirjam Schindler

Victoria University of Wellington ·  School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Air pollution is a major concern in urban areas worldwide. The interplay between urban structure and air pollution from an environmental, health and social perspective is the focus of our work: we model how urban structure impacts traffic-induced pollutant emissions and the exposure of residents to those pollutants. We present a chain of models app...

Urban planning decision-makers face wicked problems and are required to make complex decisions regarding the functioning of cities. Spatial decision-support tools (SDSTs) have the potential to change the way decisions are being made and play an important role in shaping future cities. Yet decision-makers experience challenges around SDSTs. This art...

Air pollution is of increasing concern to urban residents and urban planners are struggling to find interventions which tackle the trade-off between environmental, health, and economic impacts arising from this. We analyze within a spatially explicit theoretical residential choice model how different urban interventions can reduce exposure to endog...

Urban green space (UGS) provision across cities is often assessed from per capita quantities. However these aggregate measures say little about the actual use of UGS because they ignore the relative location of UGS and citizens. Spatial accessibility approaches consider this relative location but mostly assume that benefits happen within close prox...

The repository contains the xml files of survey questionnaires on the use of urban green spaces. All survey files are translated into three languages (English, French and German). At the time of this publication, these questionnaires have already been used for conducting face-to-face surveys in 2016 in Brussels (Belgium), in 2017 in Luxembourg-cit...

Urban planning stakeholders can use decision-support tools (DST) to foster transformation towards sustainable urban morphologies. This paper proposes an analytical framework to support urban planning practitioners in assessing how the use of DST might impact planning outcomes due to path dependence. We identify five key dimensions of path dependenc...

Air pollution is an increasing concern to urban residents. In response, residents are beginning to adapt their travel behaviour and to consider local air quality when choosing a home. We study implications of such behaviour for the morphology of cities and population exposure to traffic-induced air pollution. To do so, we propose a spatially explic...

This research focuses on the ability of spatial decision-support tools (SDST) to transform urban regeneration processes through collaborative planning between authorities and communities. This article presents what was learned from the implementation of two SDST within planning authorities in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The first tool, Envision, enables...

Gaining useful information about our built, social and natural environments is vital and possible. The value of data for cities is more informed, more effective management and development choices resulting in more benefits to a greater range of stakeholders. This article explores the state-of-play of data infrastructures in New Zealand to identify...

Spatial data ecosystems are often complex, and stakeholders express difficulties in finding, accessing, using and sharing spatial information. Doing so can be essential for making good evidence-based decisions on urban development. New Zealand's urban planning spatial data ecosystem is no exception. This paper identifies and maps key stakeholders,...

Air pollution bears severe health and environmental impacts and is of increasing concern to urban planners but densification strategies have ambiguous impacts. We analyse how households’ aversion to generating and being exposed to traffic pollution at the residential place and during their commute influences emerging urban structures and how these...

We contribute to theoretical research by extending the standard urban economics model with endogenous local pollution externalities arising from passing traffic. Conversely to Schindler et al. (2017), we consider a closed system in order to contrast different policy strategies. We perform impact analysis of various policies on equilibrium intra-urb...

Urban air pollution is among the largest environmental health risk and its major source is traffic, which is also the main cause of spatial variation of pollution concerns within cities. Spatial responses by residents to such a risk factor have important consequences on urban structures and, in turn, on the spatial distribution of air pollution and...

Air pollution is a major concern in urban areas worldwide. It is not only a hazard to the environment but also on human health. Many argue that a compact city is the desirable urban form in the context of sustainability due to shorter travelling distances and reduced conversion of land. If considering not only the environmental pillar of sustainabi...

Air quality is a major concern in urban areas worldwide not only because of its severe health impacts but also due to its influence on living quality and residential behaviour. The subsequent increasing demand for residential areas in the greener fringes of urban agglomerations fuels the discussion about sustainability in future cities. As traffic...