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Sewing a Small Town: the renaissance of a historical center

The design themes focus on the renovation, reuse and re-utilization of old and valuable buildings, now in disuse, and the rethinking of public places to be integrated into the urban context, now partly in ruins and without an active identity to enhance the ...

2015

The Role of Ocean Space in Contemporary Urbanization

Nancy Raewyn Couling

Although the ocean is investigated by many scientific fields, research about ocean space is scarce. But energy production, extraction of resources, infrastructural and logistical development is increasing incrementally, resulting in a quantum shift in scal ...

EPFL2015

On the Symbiosis of People and Building

Sytse de Maat

Controversies continue to exist between architects and the public about what is a good building. High-style modern architecture is often disliked by the public. Moreover, in everyday life people blame the architect for everything they find impractical in a ...

EPFL2015

Evaluation of building energy use: from the urban to the building scale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Alain Clappier

A 1-D canopy interface model (CIM) has been developed recently and integrated in the meso-scale meteorological WRF v3.5 model in order to improve the surface representation. One of the objectives of such a model is to prepare for the coupling of micro-scal ...

2015

Urban Planning in Africa: Which Alternative for Poor Cities? The Case of Koudougou in Burkina Faso

Jean-Claude Bolay

The efforts made to plan cities in emerging and developing countries are confronted to multiple issues, especially in small and middle sized cities which can be considered as poor through several criteria: socio-economic level of majority of population; lo ...

2015

The activity path approach to activity pattern modeling

Michel Bierlaire, Antonin Danalet

In this presentation, we propose a model for the simultaneous choice of activity types, order, start times and durations of activity episodes in a sequence. In particular, we develop a framework for choice set generation based on path choice to deal with t ...

2015

An Indicator System for the Assessment of Sustainability Integrated into the Project Dynamics of Regeneration of Disused Urban Areas

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

In the context of sustainable densification of post-industrial European cities, urban wasteland regeneration projects offer an important potential of surfaces to recapture. Indeed, these projects can contribute concurrently to densify and revitalize existi ...

2015

Translating the City: Interdisciplinarity in urban studies

Yves Pedrazzini, Stéphanie Vincent, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy, Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urb ...

EPFL Press / Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group2015

Traffic modeling, estimation and control for large-scale congested urban networks

Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei

Part I of the thesis investigates novel urban traffic state estimation methods utilizing probe vehicle data. Chapter 2 proposes a method to integrate the collective effect of dispersed probe data with traffic kinematic wave theory and data mining technique ...

EPFL2014

Breaking Vertical Boundaries. The Spatial Logics and Underground Potential of San Antonio, Texas.

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piece-meal out of necessity rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. The underground contains not only potential usable space, but also raw materials, groundwater and geotherma ...

2014

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