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Right to housing
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Provision of housing services within planetary limits: A methodological framework for the urban circular economy
The provision of decent housing for all is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) and a fundamental human right. However, the construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and 40% of global CO2 emissions are attributed to housing ...
2023‘Monsieur, I have a wife and child, a house and a garden, et alors?’
Marshall Plan, officially operated from 1948 to 1952 for reconstruction and development in Europe and non-European countries such as Turkey and Switzerland, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Referred by its bureaucrats as “ ...
2023Towards sustainability through housing functions: a systems perspective for the study of Swiss tenants' residential mobility
Problem. Housing is a major contributor to Switzerland's carbon footprint and energy consumption, but it is also a basic need. Research on climate change mitigation strategies has so far paid insufficient attention to households' preferences and their cont ...
EPFL2022The right to housing? The antinomies of social housing between public and private
What is social housing, is it a right or a property? Is it guaranteed for all by welfare state or non-governmental organizations or a commodity in capitalist production and market relations? According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, h ...
2021The question of housing at the center of urban health inequities
Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Akuto Akpedze Konou
If environmental factors are important determinants of health, then universal access to adequate housing is key to tackle urban health inequities. Yet, with over one billion urban dwellers having no other choice than living in so-called slums, the provisio ...
2021The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool
Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi
Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...
2020The Neighbourhood Unit. The relevance of an architectural tool
Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi
Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...
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