Mirjam Schindler
Victoria University of Wellington
H-index: 8
Oceania-New Zealand
Description
Mirjam Schindler, With an exceptional h-index of 8 and a recent h-index of 8 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, specializes in the field of urban modelling, urban geography, spatial analysis, spatial planning, healthy cities.
His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:
Developing a conceptual framework for characterizing and measuring social resilience in blue-green infrastructure (BGI)
A missed opportunity for health promotion? Perceptions of large‐scale housing developments in Aotearoa New Zealand
Nature orientation and opportunity: Who values and who has opportunity for satisfactory green spaces in proximity to their place of residence
How far do people travel to use urban green space? A comparison of three European cities
Urban interventions to reduce pollution exposure and improve spatial equity
Geospatial Mixed-Method Survey Data to Analyse Stated Preferences for and Satisfaction with Local Green Spaces in Wellington. NZGRC 2022.
A framework to assess impacts of path dependence on urban planning outcomes, induced through the use of decision-support tools
A two-stage residential location and transport mode choice model with exposure to traffic-induced air pollution
Professor Information
University | Victoria University of Wellington |
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Position | School of Geography Environment and Earth Sciences |
Citations(all) | 260 |
Citations(since 2020) | 213 |
Cited By | 112 |
hIndex(all) | 8 |
hIndex(since 2020) | 8 |
i10Index(all) | 7 |
i10Index(since 2020) | 7 |
University Profile Page | Victoria University of Wellington |
Research & Interests List
urban modelling
urban geography
spatial analysis
spatial planning
healthy cities
Top articles of Mirjam Schindler
Developing a conceptual framework for characterizing and measuring social resilience in blue-green infrastructure (BGI)
Many cities are increasingly adopting blue-green infrastructure (BGI) to bolster resilience against environmental challenges. Beyond its well-acknowledged environmental benefits, the role of BGI in enhancing social resilience is becoming an equally important area of focus. However, the integration of BGI to foster social resilience presents complexities, stemming from the evolving and occasionally ambiguous definition of social resilience. Given its broad application across diverse disciplines, understanding and measuring social resilience proves difficult, posing challenges to understanding it within a BGI context. However, integrating BGI to support social resilience is complicated by the evolving and sometimes ambiguous definition of social resilience. This concept's broad applicability across various disciplines makes its understanding and measurement challenging, especially within the BGI context. Consequently, a clear need for a framework to effectively understand and measure social resilience in BGI settings exists. This paper synthesizes existing social resilience frameworks, particularly leveraging the comprehensive 5S framework by Saja et al.(2018), to create a new conceptual framework that addresses the unique social dimensions and benefits of BGI, incorporating insights from a broad literature review on social resilience. The framework is structured as a three-tier model centered around four key subdimensions of social resilience: social values, social capital, social structure, and social equity and their interrelationships. Characteristics and indicators are customized to support the BGI context integrating both physical and human …
Authors
Angie Campbell,Victoria Chanse,Mirjam Schindler
Published Date
2024/3/12
A missed opportunity for health promotion? Perceptions of large‐scale housing developments in Aotearoa New Zealand
Large‐scale housing developments (LHD) are increasingly being used to accommodate population growth in (sub)urban Aotearoa, but their market‐oriented and delivery‐focused approach raises questions about whether resulting housing supplies meet residents' expectations for a healthy living environment. Based on a mixed‐methods survey with expert and non‐expert residents in the Wellington Region, this research critically examines LHD and underscores the pressing need for a stronger emphasis on health promotion in rapidly growing (sub)urban environments. The study reveals a strong desire among study participants for more social infrastructure in LHD, responsibility on part of LHD developers towards communal values and community engagement.
Authors
Mirjam Schindler
Journal
New Zealand Geographer
Published Date
2023/12/21
Nature orientation and opportunity: Who values and who has opportunity for satisfactory green spaces in proximity to their place of residence
Urban green spaces (UGS) provide important contributions to people. Yet, UGS planning requires better understanding of by whom and where such contributions are being valued or missed. Based on a mixed-methods online survey and choice experiment with residents of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand, we analyse how much and why residents value UGS and their benefits when deciding where to live and how socio-economic and spatial factors might impact nature orientation and opportunity for satisfactory local UGS. We find that local UGS are an important residential choice criteria for the majority of respondents, especially in the context of Wellington’s intensification plans. However, we show that socio-economic and spatial factors significantly impact whether someone values and is satisfied with UGS in proximity to their place of residence. Our findings call for careful scoping of a city’s population and …
Authors
Mirjam Schindler
Journal
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
Published Date
2023/6/1
How far do people travel to use urban green space? A comparison of three European cities
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 proximity of residences. We challenge this assumption for three European cities comparatively, based on similarly acquired survey data. We study which factors influence how far people travel to their most used UGS, as defined by users themselves. We find that travelled distances (1.4–1.9 km) and inter-city differences are surprisingly high compared to the few hundred meters set in policy targets and accessibility analyses. We identify socio-demographic effects and a role for perceived rather than objective quality of local UGS. More than a spatial interaction trade-off …
Authors
Mirjam Schindler,Marion Le Texier,Geoffrey Caruso
Journal
Applied Geography
Published Date
2022/4/1
Urban interventions to reduce pollution exposure and improve spatial equity
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 endogenous traffic‐induced air pollution at residential locations. We model a city of fixed population size, where households are averse to localized pollution and examine how a flat commuting tax, an urban growth boundary, a cordon toll, and the optimal distance‐based tax compare to an urban scenario without any planner's intervention. We find that an urban intervention to optimally address exposure concerns needs to achieve steep density gradients near the urban fringe and flat gradients near the center. We show the deficiencies of the alternative interventions to achieve …
Authors
Mirjam Schindler,Geoffrey Caruso
Journal
Geographical Analysis
Published Date
2022/4
Geospatial Mixed-Method Survey Data to Analyse Stated Preferences for and Satisfaction with Local Green Spaces in Wellington. NZGRC 2022.
Urban green spaces (UGS) provide important contributions to people and especially their wellbeing in times of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, UGS planning requires better understanding of by whom and where such contributions are being valued or missed. Based on geospatial mixed-methods survey data from about 1000 Wellington residents, I analyse where, how much and why residents value UGS. I specifically explore how residents’ preferences and stated satisfaction vary spatially and by socio-economic background. GIS analysis is applied to map and characterize respondent’s residential locations, and descriptive statistics and (logistic) regressions are performed to explore spatial and socio-economic drivers. Results suggest that local UGS are an important residential choice criterion for most respondents, especially in the context of Wellington's intensification plans and current COVID-19 …
Authors
Mirjam Schindler
Published Date
2022/8/27
A framework to assess impacts of path dependence on urban planning outcomes, induced through the use of decision-support tools
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 dependence in a spatial socio-technical system as analytical framework to assess the influence of DST on planning outcomes. Potential impacts on urban planning outcomes are analysed by applying the proposed framework to a particular spatial socio-technical system, namely New Zealand's use of DST to support urban planning decision-making towards sustainable urban morphologies. The assessment framework and comparative case study analysis illustrate how the interaction between planning culture and some DST features can influence decisions pertaining …
Authors
Mirjam Schindler,Rita Dionisio
Journal
Cities
Published Date
2021/8/1
A two-stage residential location and transport mode choice model with exposure to traffic-induced air pollution
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 explicit and integrated residential location and transport mode choice model for a city with traffic-induced air pollution. Intra-urban spatial patterns of population densities, transport mode choices, and resulting population exposure are analysed for urban settings of varying levels of health concern and air pollution information available to residents. Numerical analysis of the feedback between residential location choice and transport mode choice, and between residents' choices and the subsequent potential impact on their own health suggests that increased availability of …
Authors
Mirjam Schindler,Judith YT Wang,Richard D Connors
Journal
Journal of Transport Geography
Published Date
2021/5/1
Professor FAQs
What is Mirjam Schindler's h-index at Victoria University of Wellington?
The h-index of Mirjam Schindler has been 8 since 2020 and 8 in total.
What are Mirjam Schindler's top articles?
The articles with the titles of
Developing a conceptual framework for characterizing and measuring social resilience in blue-green infrastructure (BGI)
A missed opportunity for health promotion? Perceptions of large‐scale housing developments in Aotearoa New Zealand
Nature orientation and opportunity: Who values and who has opportunity for satisfactory green spaces in proximity to their place of residence
How far do people travel to use urban green space? A comparison of three European cities
Urban interventions to reduce pollution exposure and improve spatial equity
Geospatial Mixed-Method Survey Data to Analyse Stated Preferences for and Satisfaction with Local Green Spaces in Wellington. NZGRC 2022.
A framework to assess impacts of path dependence on urban planning outcomes, induced through the use of decision-support tools
A two-stage residential location and transport mode choice model with exposure to traffic-induced air pollution
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are the top articles of Mirjam Schindler at Victoria University of Wellington.
What are Mirjam Schindler's research interests?
The research interests of Mirjam Schindler are: urban modelling, urban geography, spatial analysis, spatial planning, healthy cities
What is Mirjam Schindler's total number of citations?
Mirjam Schindler has 260 citations in total.
What are the co-authors of Mirjam Schindler?
The co-authors of Mirjam Schindler are Simon Kingham, Geoffrey Caruso, Richard Connors, Rita Dionísio.