ZEUS

Spatial and experience analysis for Socially Sustainable Urban Development.

The aim of the project is to

1. analyze population distribution in relation to spatial accessibility to environmental affordances, which are defined as characteristics of the physical environment that in a given situation constitute a non-deterministic condition for behavior.
   
   
2. evaluate what effect accessibility or lack of accessibility to these environmental qualities has on residents' experiences of the built environment. We are investigating Stockholm and Knivsta.

One of the project's goals is to, through PhD projects, develop a methodology for analyzing spatial accessibility to both ecosystem services and urban services, and to evaluate how this accessibility affects residents' everyday experiences.

A second objective is to develop an accessible database by collecting primary data from 1) a study using PPGIS; 2) the spatial distribution of the population; and 4) spatially high-resolution data on the ecosystem service temperature regulation.

In later stages, we intend to include data on noise, air pollution and other ecosystem services.

The project builds on an ongoing internet-based PPGIS study designed to collect spatially determined positive and negative experiences of Stockholmers. Questions are also about the environmental qualities that generate such feelings and experiences.