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The state-led use of industrial heritage in mega-events in China

Mengke Zhang

This paper investigates the role of industrial heritage during mega-events in a Chinese context. By adopting a comparative analysis of the use of industrial heritage in a few mega-events in China, the paper aims to summarize a framework of the state-led us ...

2022

Modernidades Industriais no Maranhão

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

In the construction of the memory of the modern city, the industrial vestiges are an important part in the understanding of the modernities in Brazilian cities. The ICOMOS advisory body evaluation, when evaluating the candidature of São Luís do Maranhão as ...

2019

UNIVERSITY RESIDENCES AS A TOOL FOR PUBLIC HOUSING REGENERATION

Lorenzo Diana

Nowadays in Rome public housing suburbs face several critical issues, both physical and social: buildings obsolescence, state of neglect of open spaces, inhabitant’s sense of segregation and lack of social inclusion. These critical issues cause a huge redu ...

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca TESIS, Università degli Studi di Firenze2016

A new energy and natural resources investigation method: Geneva case studies

Pascal Blunier, Pascal Piguet, Olivier Ouzilou

The Praille-Acacias-Vernets suburb, located in Geneva, Switzerland, is today considered as an outworn city area (2.3 km(2)). It consists of parking lots, industries, businesses and marshalling yards. The Geneva Government decided to remodel this suburb to ...

2011

Changes in Employment Localization and Accessibility

Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet

Until about the end of WWII, the territorial organization of the economy could be expressed along a very strong center-periphery gradient, with industries and services concentrated in cities while the countryside supplied agricultural products. Since the i ...

EPFL2011

Coordination of land-use planning and transportation: how much room to manoeuvre?

Vincent Kaufmann, Christophe Jemelin

In many countries of Western Europe, cities are being built around cars and individual houses. This trend is often considered unavoidable by urban and transportation professionals because it is believed to correspond to what the population desires. But is ...

2003