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Advancing Analytical Tools to Understand Urban Planning: Mapping Controversies around the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034
Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Christine Lutringer-Gully
The proposed article suggests that urban studies are in need of new tools to describe and analyze the different “regimes of urbanization” in an increasingly heterogeneous urban world. In order to create dynamic and relational descriptions of contemporary c ...
2016Planning the heterogeneous city: an analysis of the controversies on Mumbai’s Development Plan 2014 – 2034 in the making
The currently on-going revision of Mumbai’s development (MDP) plan is accompanied by heated controversies over a common urban future. After publication of the draft for public consultation in February 2015 an unprecedented public outcry and strong criticis ...
2016Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China
Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...
EPFL2015Impact of the urbanization process on connectivity and genetic diversity - a spatially explicit simulation approach
Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer
Urbanization leads to fragmentation, degradation or loss of natural environments and reduces connectivity between remaining habitat patches. This affects dispersal and establishment of species and their genes and might have adverse effects on biodiversity ...
2015Looking at Cities in Mexico with Crowds
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani
Mobile and social technologies are providing new opportunities to document, characterize, and gather impressions of urban environments. In this paper, we present a study that examines urban perceptions of three cities in central Mexico (Guanajuato, Leon an ...
ACM2015Multiplex networks in metropolitan areas: generic features and local effects
Emanuele Strano, Marc Barthélemy
Most large cities are spanned by more than one transportation system. These different modes of transport have usually been studied separately: it is however important to understand the impact on urban systems of coupling different modes and we report in th ...
Royal Soc2015Science + Space + Society : Urbanity and the Risk of Methodological Communalism in Social Sciences of Space
During the last decades, geography has lost its epistemological exceptionality, but is this enough? Social sciences are commonly threatened by methodological nationalism and, more generally, by methodological communalism, that is the corruption of a scient ...
2014Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies
Ocean space is currently being urbanized on an unprecedented scale, a phenomenon under investigation by the architectural laboratoire bâle, EPFL Switzerland. Lefebvre writes of the all-encompassing process of urbanization, that agriculture, industry and ur ...
2014Urban Morphology and Energy Consumption: Simplified Tools for the Estimation of Energy Needs and Solar Income at the Urban and District level
François Golay, Claudio Magalhaes Carneiro, Gilles Desthieux
Urban form matters in assessing the energy consumption of buildings. This chapter introduces three useful tools to assess the environmental impact of the urban form and to define possible energy scenarios. These outcomes can be used to inform the redevelop ...
IGI Global2014Tracing the Contours of An Urban Morality: A Harmonization of Languages Between Moral Psychology, Urban Anthropology, and Political Geography
Urbanites and non-urbanites don’t vote the same. Within a single metropolitan area, political behaviors and their underlying reasoning differ greatly in relation to individuals’ life context. Votes in Switzerland show the strength and the durability of thi ...
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