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In responsive cities, user feedback and information provided by sensors are combined to improve urban design and to support asset managers in performing decision making. Optimal management of infrastructure networks requires accurate knowledge of current a ...

2018

Peri-urban residential neighbourhoods at the margins of current trends in urban growth: towards sustainable transition paths ?

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Guillaume Lucas

In Switzerland as in most european countries, the last decades of urban development have put much pressure on the environment due to uncontrolled urban sprawl. The existing peripheral residential built-up areas mostly composed of single-family houses are r ...

2018

Peri-urban residential neighborhoods at the margins current trends in urban growth: towards sustainable transition paths?

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles

In Switzerland as in most European countries, the last decades of urban development have put much pressure on the environment due to uncontrolled urban sprawl. The existing peripheral residential built-up areas mostly composed of single-family houses are r ...

2018

Incremental Urbanism: A study of incremental housing production and the challenge of its inclusion in contemporary planning processes in Mumbai, India

Whilst urbanisation reached an unprecedented dimension, in a not so distant future half of the urban population will live in `informal¿ settlements. Often subsumed under the pejorative term slum, these habitats account for the majority of the future urban ...

EPFL2018

Bioclimatic Design of Sustainable Campuses using Advanced Optimisation Methods

Silvia Coccolo

Cities occupy 0.5% of the earth surface, but they consume 75% of worldwide energy, and they are responsible of 50% to 80% of CO2 emissions. Cities are directly responsible for the climate change. However, they are the key for providing solutions to this pr ...

EPFL2017

Challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinarity : insights from human-centric building research at EPFL

Marilyne Andersen

Interdisciplinarity has become an inherent component of most research and education developments nowadays. It brings with it new challenges, from how to share a common language to how to avoid becoming generalists, as well as new opportunities in solving m ...

2017

The Architecture of the Metacity: Land Use Change, Patch Dynamics and Urban Form in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Martina Barcelloni Corte

This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid development of Chiang Mai, Thailand over the last four decades. Modern urbanization since the 1980s in the previously remote Chiang Mai-Lamphun Valley has coincided wit ...

Cogitatio Press2017

Why is promoting daily walking not a priority in European cities? A review and research agenda

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie, Jean Simos

Promoting daily walking is one of the most efficient means of improving urban health, but is rarely recognised as a priority at city level. This contribution investigates the hypothesis that evidence about the importance of walking is having a limited effe ...

2017

Rehabilitación energética de edificios residenciales en España y objetivo europeo 2050

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

One of the top priorities of European countries is to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the built environment. To reach this goal, urban renewal processes are seen as a core strategy towards a sustainable built fabric, given t ...

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya2017

Measuring and typifying mobility using motility

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Yann Francis Eric Dubois

In this article, we will measure individuals’ and groups’ aptitude for movement and consider them relative to their living environment by developing a typology of motility. This will help highlight both the range and variety of skills for being mobile, and ...

2017

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