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vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

An Indicator System for the Assessment of Sustainability Integrated into the Project Dynamics of Regeneration of Disused Urban Areas

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

In the context of sustainable densification of post-industrial European cities, urban wasteland regeneration projects offer an important potential of surfaces to recapture. Indeed, these projects can contribute concurrently to densify and revitalize existi ...

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Sustainability assessment of an urban neighborhood revitalization project in Bogotá by transposition of European indicator systems to the Colombian context

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With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions in the planet. Its urban areas are characterized by rapid transformations that entail urban sprawl and the subsequent environmental impacts, social segregation ...

2015

Towards sustainable regeneration of disused urban areas : a monitoring tool to integrate assessment into the projects dynamics

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Regeneration of disused urban areas, such as industrial brownfields or abandoned infrastructural zones, has received considerable attention in the context of post‐industrial European cities. Due to the inherent complexity of these projects, a holistic inte ...

2015

Towards sustainable regeneration of disused urban areas : a monitoring tool to integrate assessment into the projects dynamics

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

2015

Growth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing

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The unprecedented speed of urbanization in Asia calls for a fundamental rethinking of urbanism. Conventional master plans typically propose a single static ‘end’ condition derived from top-down visions, often incapable of responding to site-specific microc ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2015

URBIUS : a method for assessing the sustainability of urban renewal strategies at neighborhood scale

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

This paper presents the URBIUS method, developed to assess the sustainability of urban renewal strategies at neighbourhood scale. The conceptual framework of URBIUS gathers the main issues of urban sustainability, including social, economic and environment ...

2015

Integrated Transport and Land Use Modeling for Sustainable Cities

Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Daniel Hurtubia González

Integrated transport and land use models are an increasingly used tool for evaluation of urban policy and large scale projects. Although there is a well-built theoretical background supporting the existing models, there are few exhaustive descriptions of t ...

EPFL Press2015

A Methodology for Holistic Lifecycle Approach as Decision Support System for Closed-loop Lifecycle Management

Fatih Karakoyun

Sustainability of their products and practices provides companies with a competitive set of methods and tools to maintain, improve and expand customer and supplier relationships and to ensure access to strategic markets. Companies pay a lot of attention to ...

EPFL2015

Towards Solar Decathlon: Concepts for a Sustainable Urban Water Management in a new eco-district

Gianluca Antonio Paglia

Water is rarely considered to be a crucial aspect in sustainable housing. In fact, water sustainability in eco-districts and in ecological architecture is frequently limited to recycling and reuse solutions. Why less water? What could explain the choice of ...

2015

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