Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld

@hvl.no

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld
Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at HVL (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) and Collaborating Member at CITTA (University of Porto). She holds a PhD from Wageningen University. Her dissertation is entitled 'Planning with Roots and Wings. Critical and constructive reflections on social learning in planning', (2021). Kim is passionate about social and environmental justice and sustainability, and seeks to address the related challenges through critical and constructive research, interdisciplinary and multi-cultural perspectives, creativity, and public engagement. She has published widely on the subjects of participatory governance, streets as public spaces of mobility, social learning in co-creative planning, critical innovation studies, degrowth and post-growth. She is looking to engage more with Arts and Humanities. She runs the MobileWorlds project and the Planetary Planning Podcast.

EDUCATION

Research Master Urban Studies 2013-2015
University of Amsterdam. Master-level study of urban issues, with a focus on transportation and land use planning, governance and sociology, culminating in the thesis on the acceptability of cycling in Mexico City and London.

Courses in Spanish Philology and Latin American Studies 2012-2013
Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.

Bachelor Human Geography and Planning 2009-2012
University of Amsterdam. Study of spatial and geographical influences on humans and vice-versa, and urban and regional planning. Focus on urban issues. Minor in International Development Studies. Electives on urban sociology and literature. Bachelor Thesis research self-organized in Brazil in cooperation with the EU-financed project Chance2Sustain.

Schools in Guatemala, Brazil and Germany 1996-2009

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Geography, Planning and Development, Cultural Studies, Transportation
24

Scopus Publications

853

Scholar Citations

15

Scholar h-index

16

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Questioning Mental Comfort in Planning: exploring the pendulum between creativity and safety
    KC von Schönfeld, S Eräranta, W Tan, A Ferreira, J Sturzaker, S Wiberg
    Conversations in Spatial Planning: Exploring Change in Planning Practice and … , 2026
    2026
  • Combining “Science” and “Art” in Planning: aiming for convergence or collaboration?
    KC von Schönfeld, S Eräranta, S Wiberg, S Greaves, R Mäntysalo
    Conversations in Spatial Planning: Exploring Change in Planning Practice and … , 2026
    2026
  • Social Learning as Treadmill, Harness and Springboard: a multi-perspective examination of the ambiguous potentials of social learning in planning practice
    S Eräranta, KC von Schönfeld, P Healey, R Mäntysalo, W Tan, A Ferreira, ...
    Conversations in Spatial Planning: Exploring Change in Planning Practice and … , 2026
    2026
  • The Role of Academia in Initiating or Enabling Change: researcher activism in the context of planning
    KC von Schönfeld, S Eräranta, E Verlinghieri, M Mladenović, A Ferreira, ...
    Conversations in Spatial Planning: Exploring Change in Planning Practice and … , 2026
    2026
  • Conversations in Spatial Planning: Exploring Change in Planning Practice and Academia with Voices Across Generations and Expertise
    KC von Schönfeld, S Eräranta
    Routledge , 2026
    2026
  • Exploring the Potentials of Rural Tactical Action for Co-Creating Heritage: The Case of the “Minante” Project
    KC von Schönfeld, R Monteiro, AC Roberti, GC Conceição
    Heritage & Society, 1-33 , 2025
    2025
  • Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water . An introduction
    KC von Schönfeld, AC Roberti, B Lopes, GC Conceição
    Cultural Studies 39 (5), 657-668 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • From Riverbank to Ocean: Involving Young Generations With Their Territory Through Artistic Practices
    AC Roberti, K von Schönfeld, R Monteiro
    Ocean and Society 2 , 2025
    2025
  • Questioning streets. On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures
    KC von Schönfeld
    Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 31 , 2025
    2025
  • Beyond Car-Centred Adultism? Exploring Parental Influences on Children’s Mobility
    C Cadima, K von Schönfeld, A Ferreira
    Urban Planning 9 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Stepping out of the box of ‘sustainable mobility’into an interconnected, otherwise mobile world. Seeking a new methodology for the future of mobility planning
    KC von Schönfeld
    AESOP Annual Congress proceedings 36 , 2024
    2024
  • On the'impertinence of impermanence'and three other critiques: Reflections on the relationship between experimentation and lasting–or significant?–change
    KC von Schönfeld
    Journal of Urban Mobility 5, 100070 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 21
  • Shrinking cities for economic growth? Insights from the housing sector
    A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld, F Augis, P Conceição
    Urban Planning 9 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Who for rather than who with - how intended audiences help determine framing dynamics in contested planning
    KC von Schönfeld
    Planning Practice & Research 38 (4), 541-563 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Mobility values in a finite world: pathways beyond austerianism?
    KC von Schönfeld, A Ferreira
    Applied Mobilities 8 (3), 218-244 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 16
  • Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19
    A Nikolaeva, YT Lin, S Nello-Deakin, O Rubin, KC von Schönfeld
    Mobilities 18 (1), 1-20 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 53
  • ENTRE A ESPADA E A PAREDE? O dilema da mobilidade no contexto da meritocracia universitária
    A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld, MME Vieira, LE Pappámikail
    Desafios para o Ensino Superior 3, 103-119 , 2023
    2023
  • (Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage
    KC von Schönfeld, AC Nunes Roberti, B Lopes, GC da Conceição
    International Journal of Heritage Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258 … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Post-Growth Planning: Cities Beyond the Market Economy
    F Savini, A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld
    Routledge , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 107
  • Uncoupling planning and economic growth: towards post-growth urban principles: An introduction
    F Savini, A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld
    Post-Growth Planning, 3-18 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 25

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility
    KC von Schönfeld, L Bertolini
    Cities 68, 48-55 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 216
  • Post-Growth Planning: Cities Beyond the Market Economy
    F Savini, A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld
    Routledge , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 107
  • Unpacking social learning in planning: who learns what from whom?
    KC von Schönfeld, W Tan, C Wiekens, L Janssen-Jansen
    Urban research & practice, 1-23 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 66
  • Urban Planning and European Innovation Policy: Achieving Sustainability, Social Inclusion, and Economic Growth?
    KC von Schönfeld, A Ferreira
    Sustainability 13 (3), 1137 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 64
  • Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19
    A Nikolaeva, YT Lin, S Nello-Deakin, O Rubin, KC von Schönfeld
    Mobilities 18 (1), 1-20 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 53
  • Decentralization, participation and deliberation in water governance: a case study of the implications for Guarulhos, Brazil
    F van den Brandeler, M Hordijk, K von Schönfeld, J Sydenstricker-Neto
    Environment and Urbanization 26 (2), 489-504 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 40
  • Social learning as an analytical lens for co-creative planning
    KC von Schönfeld, W Tan, C Wiekens, W Salet, L Janssen-Jansen
    European planning studies 27 (7), 1291-1313 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 36
  • Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles
    A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld, W Tan, E Papa
    Urban Science 4 (3), 41 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 30
  • Interlacing planning and degrowth scholarship: A manifesto for an interdisciplinary alliance
    A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld
    disP-The Planning Review 56 (1), 53-64 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 27
  • Uncoupling planning and economic growth: towards post-growth urban principles: An introduction
    F Savini, A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld
    Post-Growth Planning, 3-18 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 25
  • Urban streets between public space and mobility
    KC von Schönfeld, L Bertolini
    Transportation research procedia 19, 300-302 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 25
  • On the'impertinence of impermanence'and three other critiques: Reflections on the relationship between experimentation and lasting–or significant?–change
    KC von Schönfeld
    Journal of Urban Mobility 5, 100070 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 21
  • Planning cities beyond digital colonization? Insights from the periphery
    A Ferreira, FP Oliveira, KC von Schönfeld
    Land Use Policy 114, 105988 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 19
  • Endurance and implementation in small-scale bottom-up initiatives: How social learning contributes to turning points and critical junctures
    KC von Schönfeld, W Tan
    Cities 117, 103280 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 19
  • Mobility values in a finite world: pathways beyond austerianism?
    KC von Schönfeld, A Ferreira
    Applied Mobilities 8 (3), 218-244 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 16
  • Shrinking cities for economic growth? Insights from the housing sector
    A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld, F Augis, P Conceição
    Urban Planning 9 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Beyond the rule of growth in the transport sector: Towards “clumsy mobility solutions”?
    A Ferreira, KC von Schönfeld
    Post-Growth Planning, 80-93 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 9
  • Every-day mobility anecdotes: Addressing the blind spot of goal-and expert-oriented mobility research
    KC von Schönfeld, W Tan, C Curtis, JF Visser
    Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 7, 100169 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 9
  • What does it mean to be less mobile? Insights from COVID-19 lockdown
    A Nikolaeva, YT Lin, S Nello-Deakin, O Rubin, KC von Schönfeld
    Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 8
  • Unpacking social learning in planning: Who learns what from whom? Urban Research & Practice, 13 (4), 411-433
    KC von Schönfeld, W Tan, C Wiekens, L Janssen-Jansen
    2020
    Citations: 8