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The modern and contemporary city has given birth to vast peripheries due to rapid growth. A first glance at these areas reveals that architectural theories and urbanism paradigms encounter each other without fixed rules or regulated planning. Moreover, the ...

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Triggers for housing development

Philippe Thalmann

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University of Reading2008

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Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese, Claire Sauthier

The paper presents first considerations about methodologies for local hazard mapping related to rockfalls. This work is being currently carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), and it concerns the ESR8 research position ...

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