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De ville moyenne à ville intermédiaire : les dynamiques de Jacmel et son positionnement en Haïti

Even though the world’s population is nowadays essentially urban, the mediumsized cities have historically been disregarded by public policies and research due to numerous difficulties defining these “in-between towns”. This lack of definition is even more ...

2019

Mobile Urban Micrometeorological Monitoring (MUMiM)

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Laurent Deschamps, Pierre Loesch, Paul Becquelin

To understand the urban environment from a meteorological perspective in order to design better and more sustainable neighbourhoods, an open-source and low-cost meteorological device was developed and tested at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...

2019

Renovação urbano-cultural e consumo do espaço no Porto Maravilha: Um caso de gentricação?

Mariana Fernandes Mendes

This chapter consists of a literature review of the concept of "gentrification" and its historical development in urban studies. On the basis of an updated (inter)national bibliography on "gentrification", described as a phenomenon that manifests itself th ...

Letra Capital2019

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eléonore Labattut

In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...

2019

Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

Gabriele Manoli, Gabriel George Katul, Paolo Burlando

Urban heat islands (UHIs) exacerbate the risk of heat-related mortality associated with global climate change. The intensity of UHIs varies with population size and mean annual precipitation, but a unifying explanation for this variation is lacking, and th ...

2019

Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Valeria Superti

Currently our world is becoming increasingly urban, with around 50% of its population living in cities. Whereas cities produce 80% of the worldwide GDP and are places with high innovation, they also consume 75% of worldwide resources and produce 80% of CO2 ...

2019

When inclusion means smart city: Urban planning against poverty

Jean-Claude Bolay

A majority of human beings live in cities, half of them in cities of less than 500.000 inhabitants, and around I billion of dwellers live today in slums (meaning 25% of urban residents in the global South). Having these numbers in mind, the main question f ...

Springer2019

De Smart à Responsive, les enjeux de la planification urbaine à l'ère du numérique: Les expériences de Genève et Singapour

Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Rapid urbanization, climate change, sustainable development, resource depletion, the widespread use of the Internet and mobile phones, and the big data phenomenon all pose great challenges to urban planning. By facilitating data exchange, collection, and a ...

EPFL2019

Singularité des slums: Production de l'espace dans la ville indienne

Contemporary urbanism, as a science and ideology, sometimes induces a violence of urbanization that is exercised through formal planning on informal settlements. The latter are marginalized through processes of (in)visibility that exclude them from the cit ...

EPFL2019

Life-Cycle Assessment as a decision-support tool for early phases of urban planning: evaluating applicability through a comparative approach

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Émilie Nault, Katarina Slavkovic

While ambitious environmental objectives are being set for new constructions in Switzerland, the assessment of urban-scale projects and comparison of their performance to national targets are made possible by a growing number of life-cycle assessment (LCA) ...

IOP Publishing2019

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