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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

ICTs and Participation in Developing Countries

Jean-Claude Bolay, Alexandre Repetti

Developing cities are experiencing substantial gaps in urban planning. They are due to approaches and instruments that do not correspond to the realities of the developing city including the prevalence of informal sector and slums, urban governance problem ...

IGI Global2010

Méthodologie de gestion durable des ressources du sous-sol urbain

Pascal Blunier

The world is becoming more and more urban. During the last fifty years, the population in Swiss cities has grown from 45% to 70% of the total population. This change is characterised by urban sprawl and by an increase in the consumption of resources, parti ...

EPFL2009

Uncovering the value of planning in new venture creation: A process and contingency perspective

Marc Gruber

Researchers are engaged in a major debate on the value of business planning in new venture creation. This study suggests a potential resolution by applying a process and contingency perspective. The results indicate that planning is beneficial, yet plannin ...

2007

Differential gene expression between adult queens and workers in the ant Lasius niger

Johannes Gräff, Laurent Keller

Ants and other social insects forming large societies are generally characterized by marked reproductive division of labour. Queens largely monopolize reproduction whereas workers have little reproductive potential. In addition, some social insect species ...

Wiley-Blackwell2007

Conditions to be met for the implementation of urban monitoring systems in western Africa

Alexandre Repetti, Marc Soutter, Amadou Sall

Rapid population growth and city expansion, along with scarce resources for planning and management, are widely shared characteristics of southern cities. The System for Monitoring Urban Functionalities (SMURF) has been designed and developed for the city ...

2005

Conditions to be met for the implementation of urban monitoring systems in western africa

Alexandre Repetti, Marc Soutter, Amadou Sall

2005

Development Consumers: An Ethnography of "The Poorest of the Poor" and International Aid in Rural Tanzania

Martin Benjamin

This is a multi-site ethnographic study of the interactions between programs that intend to bring “development” to rural Africa, and the residents of Malangali division, Tanzania. It explores development through an internal examination of a European non-go ...

Yale University2000

New oportunities: Participating and Planning

Yves Pedrazzini, Jean-Claude Bolay, Antonio Da Cunha

Idea shared between 1993 and 1996 between researchers from EPFL and other universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil and Venezuela, with the support of the Foundation Leopold Mayer for the Progress of Man, alternative ways of urban planning have been teste ...

IREC-EPFL, FPH, Universidad Central de Venezuela1996

The development of means of information in the planning of electrical distribution systems

The analysis of an electrical distribution system will include the load-flow, the calculation of short-circuit currents, a study of its stability, an evaluation of its reliability and co-ordination of the system insulation. In Europe, Electricite de France ...

1987

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