Shoshanna Saxe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1349113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shoshanna Saxe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shoshanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Saxe |
| SIGNATURE | SAXE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4665-8890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Image‐based prediction of residential building attributes with deep learning
This study estimates building attributes—floor area and age—using image‐based machine learning. Building age and floor area are key inputs to the studies of urban metabolism, material stocks and flows, and embodied greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the built environment. However, these data are challenging to generate and maintain using traditional survey methods, their availability is uneven and often, even when available, very uncertain. Improving our…
Circular economy strategies in cities as a value‐driven approach to infrastructure management
The circular economy (CE) is a promising paradigm for reducing the environmental impact and preserving value within modern production systems, including civil infrastructure. However, there is a mismatch between common assumptions in CE thinking, largely developed for smaller‐scale consumer products, and infrastructure systems characterized by their permanency and complexity. This paper discusses the applicability of CE for infrastructure provisi…
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing
This research addresses two critical problems facing communities today: the growing demand for housing and the need to reduce material consumption to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Material production and use accounts for more than 25% of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and must be reduced to meet the Paris Climate Agreement's 2°C target. At the same time, increasing urban populations are accelerating the demand for housing …
Exploring the geographical equity-efficiency tradeoff in cycling infrastructure planning
Cycling is affordable, healthy, and sustainable, but access to destinations on low-stress safe cycling routes in most cities is both limited and unevenly distributed. Many cities are expanding cycling networks to improve safety, increase cycling mode share, and increase diversity in access to cycling, however resources remain limited which requires prioritization of infrastructure. When proposed infrastructure locations are optimized to provide t…
Planning, ethics and infrastructural time
This paper shows how different properties of time and their ethical implications are reflected in the framing of debates around planning and the perceived problem of delay in the delivery of infrastructure. We examine the way in which plans can take the form of 'time maps' that are linear projections of a series of events. This can lead to assumptions that desired futures can only be achieved if the actions that constitute events are performed co…
Bottom‐up estimation of material stocks and flows in Toronto's road network
Improving resource efficiency is critical to reduce the environmental impacts of constructing and maintaining the built environment. A growing body of research has been investigating where and for what purposes construction materials are consumed in cities. Much of this existing research relies on archetypes to simplify the analysis of the large number of structures, and city‐scale bottom‐up material stock assessments mostly examine buildings to …
Tracking the material cycle of Italian bricks with the aid of building information modeling
Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment
Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to provide a near full accounting of impacts from the complete life of a product, to avoid burden shifting between different parts of the life cycle. However, this is exceptionally difficult with transport infrastructure because important parts of their impact lie outside the widely applied industrial‐product‐oriented LCA life stages: production, manufacturing, use, and end of life. To account for those missing im…
Taxonomy of uncertainty in environmental life cycle assessment of infrastructure projects
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly being used to evaluate infrastructure products and to inform their funding, design and construction. As such, recognition of study limitations and consideration of uncertainty are needed; however, most infrastructure LCAs still report deterministic values. Compared to other LCA subfields, infrastructure LCA has developed relatively recently and lags in adopting uncertainty analysis. This p…
Embodied emissions in rail infrastructure: A critical literature review
This paper investigates the state of knowledge in quantifying the embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in rail infrastructure and develops a sketch model for estimating the GHG impact of rail infrastructure based on the literature. A literature review identified 22 publications, containing 57 case studies, at least touching on the embodied GHG for different types of rail infrastructure. The cases studies include high speed rail, intercity rail…
Cycle accessibility and level of traffic stress: A case study of Toronto
The Relationship between Airport Infrastructure and Flight Arrivals in Remote Northern Canadian Communities
Much of Canada’s northern population resides in communities that are inaccessible by road for a substantial portion of the year. Residents of these “fly-in” communities rely on aircraft to provide a wide range of social, economic, and transportation services. However, for numerous reasons, including the often extreme environmental conditions in the circumpolar regions of Canada, a substantial number of flights to these communities are cancelled o…
Cycle accessibility and level of traffic stress: A case study of Toronto
Planning, ethics and infrastructural time
This paper shows how different properties of time and their ethical implications are reflected in the framing of debates around planning and the perceived problem of delay in the delivery of infrastructure. We examine the way in which plans can take the form of 'time maps' that are linear projections of a series of events. This can lead to assumptions that desired futures can only be achieved if the actions that constitute events are performed co…
The Relationship between Airport Infrastructure and Flight Arrivals in Remote Northern Canadian Communities
Much of Canada’s northern population resides in communities that are inaccessible by road for a substantial portion of the year. Residents of these “fly-in” communities rely on aircraft to provide a wide range of social, economic, and transportation services. However, for numerous reasons, including the often extreme environmental conditions in the circumpolar regions of Canada, a substantial number of flights to these communities are cancelled o…
Embodied emissions in rail infrastructure: A critical literature review
This paper investigates the state of knowledge in quantifying the embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in rail infrastructure and develops a sketch model for estimating the GHG impact of rail infrastructure based on the literature. A literature review identified 22 publications, containing 57 case studies, at least touching on the embodied GHG for different types of rail infrastructure. The cases studies include high speed rail, intercity rail…
Cycle accessibility and level of traffic stress: A case study of Toronto
Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment
Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to provide a near full accounting of impacts from the complete life of a product, to avoid burden shifting between different parts of the life cycle. However, this is exceptionally difficult with transport infrastructure because important parts of their impact lie outside the widely applied industrial‐product‐oriented LCA life stages: production, manufacturing, use, and end of life. To account for those missing im…
Taxonomy of uncertainty in environmental life cycle assessment of infrastructure projects
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly being used to evaluate infrastructure products and to inform their funding, design and construction. As such, recognition of study limitations and consideration of uncertainty are needed; however, most infrastructure LCAs still report deterministic values. Compared to other LCA subfields, infrastructure LCA has developed relatively recently and lags in adopting uncertainty analysis. This p…
Bottom‐up estimation of material stocks and flows in Toronto's road network
Improving resource efficiency is critical to reduce the environmental impacts of constructing and maintaining the built environment. A growing body of research has been investigating where and for what purposes construction materials are consumed in cities. Much of this existing research relies on archetypes to simplify the analysis of the large number of structures, and city‐scale bottom‐up material stock assessments mostly examine buildings to …
Tracking the material cycle of Italian bricks with the aid of building information modeling
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing
This research addresses two critical problems facing communities today: the growing demand for housing and the need to reduce material consumption to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Material production and use accounts for more than 25% of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and must be reduced to meet the Paris Climate Agreement's 2°C target. At the same time, increasing urban populations are accelerating the demand for housing …
Exploring the geographical equity-efficiency tradeoff in cycling infrastructure planning
Cycling is affordable, healthy, and sustainable, but access to destinations on low-stress safe cycling routes in most cities is both limited and unevenly distributed. Many cities are expanding cycling networks to improve safety, increase cycling mode share, and increase diversity in access to cycling, however resources remain limited which requires prioritization of infrastructure. When proposed infrastructure locations are optimized to provide t…
Planning, ethics and infrastructural time
This paper shows how different properties of time and their ethical implications are reflected in the framing of debates around planning and the perceived problem of delay in the delivery of infrastructure. We examine the way in which plans can take the form of 'time maps' that are linear projections of a series of events. This can lead to assumptions that desired futures can only be achieved if the actions that constitute events are performed co…
Image‐based prediction of residential building attributes with deep learning
This study estimates building attributes—floor area and age—using image‐based machine learning. Building age and floor area are key inputs to the studies of urban metabolism, material stocks and flows, and embodied greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the built environment. However, these data are challenging to generate and maintain using traditional survey methods, their availability is uneven and often, even when available, very uncertain. Improving our…
Circular economy strategies in cities as a value‐driven approach to infrastructure management
The circular economy (CE) is a promising paradigm for reducing the environmental impact and preserving value within modern production systems, including civil infrastructure. However, there is a mismatch between common assumptions in CE thinking, largely developed for smaller‐scale consumer products, and infrastructure systems characterized by their permanency and complexity. This paper discusses the applicability of CE for infrastructure provisi…
Computer Science (9 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Transport engineering (4 works)