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Politics of Urban Planning : The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider ...

Springer2022

Logement de masse

Alessandro Porotto

This research has investigated the urban policies about mass housing at the beginning of 20th century. This was a unifying and crucial issue of several modern experiences to which many European cities developed adequate answers showing a wide range of dist ...

EPFL2018

Dense or sprawling cities: what future for the peripheries of the Cities of the Global South?

Jérôme Chenal

In Nouakchott in Mauritania, as in all the Cities of the Global South, the demographic explosion has led to unbridled growth in peripheral zones. This process will continue in future decades when a new Afri- can urban population numbering hundreds of milli ...

2016

Making, Mattering, Mapping: Constituting Underground Potential for Future Urban Development

Michael Robert Doyle

The Deep City project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has, since 2005, been working on an alternative vision for urban planning in which underground resources (water, space, geothermal energy and geomaterials) enter early on in the ...

2014

La ville ouest-africaine. Modèles de planification de l'espace urbain

Jérôme Chenal

Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis – the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable—at least not by using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory approaches for making the city, it nonetheless s ...

MétisPresses2013

Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique

Benjamin Michelon

Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

EPFL2012

Urbanisation, planification urbaine et modèles de ville en Afrique de l'Ouest

Jérôme Chenal

Background Phenomena like rapid growth, unmanageable cities, an urban space in crisis, and the disproportionate expansion of capital cities have rendered instruments traditionally associated with planned urbanism ill-suited for city planning today. Traditi ...

EPFL2009

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