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From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

Impact of Digital and Non-Digital Urban Participatory Approaches on Public Access Conditions: An Evaluation Framework

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The gradual institutionalization of public participation increasingly compels local authorities to partially share their power over the transformation of urban areas. The smooth running of a participatory session is based on selecting the appropriate type ...

MDPI2021

Reviewing the application of machine learning methods to model urban form indicators in planning decision support systems : potential, issues and challenges

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Modern cities dynamically face several challenges including digitalization, sustainability, resilience and economic development. Urban planners and designers must develop urban forms that address these challenges. With the integration of new communication ...

2022

Urban cells: Extending the energy hub concept to facilitate sector and spatial coupling

Kavan Javanroodi, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Yi Wang

The rapid growth of urban areas and concerns over climate change make it vital to improve the energy sustainability of cities. Understanding the complex interactions within different sectors (sectoral) and localities (spatial) of cities plays a crucial rol ...

2021

Quantifying the impacts of urban morphology on modifying microclimate conditions in extreme weather conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Kavan Javanroodi, Vahid Moussavi Nik

It is well-known that the morphology of urban areas modifies the variations of climate variables at microscale; known as microclimate conditions. The complexity of urban morphology can lead to undesired wind conditions or excessive air temperature; particu ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Scrutinizing the Circular Economy concept applied at the urban level: A contribution based on the analysis of urban circularity indicators, the categorization of Circular Economy interventions, and the identification of factors fostering the adoption of circular innovation

Valeria Superti

Problem. Our current economic systems are deemed unsustainable. Although a global issue, the objective of living in a sustainable society is increasingly an urban challenge, as a rising 50% of the world's population currently dwell in cities. To secure a b ...

EPFL2021

Climate resilient interconnected infrastructure: Co-optimization of energy systems and urban morphology

Kavan Javanroodi, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

Co-optimization of urban morphology and distributed energy systems is key to curb energy consumption and optimally exploit renewable energy in cities. Currently available optimization techniques focus on either buildings or energy systems, mostly neglectin ...

2021

Energy transition challenges in under-occupied homes: Assessment of two peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses

Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Current planning policies aim at putting a stop to urban sprawl by favouring densification processes. In this context, future developments are more likely to happen in strategic urban areas than in existing peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses ...

2020

Comprendre la construction des périphéries urbaines à Lomé et Yaoundé

Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of decades, it has become more and more difficult to study and control the urbanization processes using the available means due to their rapidity. These conditions ...

EPFL2020

Towards sustainable transitions of peri-urban neighborhoods of detached houses

Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Peri-urban neighborhoods of detached houses are facing countless challenges related to the building stock’s low energy efficiency, to the current demographic transition reducing household size and increasing the proportion of elderlies, to their distant lo ...

2020

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