Concept

Urban renewal

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Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more exte ...

2016

Rich and Poor Cities in Europe. An Urban Scaling Approach to Mapping the European Economic Transition

Vishal Sood, Emanuele Strano

Recent advances in the urban science make broad use of the notion of scaling. We focus here on the important scaling relationship between the gross metropolitan product (GMP) of a city and its population (pop). It has been demonstrated that GMP alpha Y Ypo ...

Public Library of Science2016

Aesthetics and Urbanity

Mirza Tursic

If we study the evolution of the urban space in Switzerland we must notice the high importance assigned by different urban actors to aesthetic questions. In a sense, the subjective realm of the aesthetic has proved to be able to generate conditions that le ...

2016

Sensitivity of calculated solar irradiation to the level of detail: insights from the simulation of four sample buildings in urban areas

Marilyne Andersen, Giuseppe Peronato, Stéphane Bonjour, Jérémie Stoeckli

The assessment of the solar potential in urban areas relies on a geometrical model that can be defined at different levels of detail (LOD). In this work we compare the solar irradiation simulated on the surfaces of four sample buildings, which were modeled ...

2016

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Support Workflow for Early-Stage Neighborhood Design based on Predicted Solar Performance

Marilyne Andersen, Émilie Nault

Despite recent developments, the need for adequate guidance and support in the early decision-making process of urban planners, designers, and architects has recurrently been recognized. Traditional performance assessment methods, which are often based on ...

2016

Seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale for two typical Swiss cities using Risk-UE methodology

Pierino Lestuzzi, Angelo Garofano, Stefano Podesta, Patrick Bischof

This paper contains a seismic assessment at urban scale of the cities of Sion and Martigny in Switzerland. These two cities have been identified for the present research based on their importance regarding size and the characteristics of the building stock ...

Springer2016

Assemblage form

Trevor Patt

The thesis proposes a projective theory for contemporary urbanism that equates the active processes of the city and a new orientation for procedural urban design within a single line of thought that delineates the concept of a generic organizationâone th ...

EPFL2016

Integration of outdoor human comfort in a building energy simulation database using CityGML Energy Ade

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo

Handling data needed by Building Energy Simulation (BES) tools can be a tedious task, especially at the urban scale. Besides BES, users often have different needs (building energy use, human comfort, integration of renewables, urban planning…) in mind when ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

The Symbiotic Districts research project examines dimensions influencing energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood scale by integrating parameters related to buildings, infrastructure, mobility, food, goods and services. Transposing industrial ecology tools ...

2016

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

2016

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