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Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices

For decades, hosting mega-events in the present place has been considered as a strategy to boost the future urban landscape. More recently, however, the re-use of the city fabric’s past heritage has become central rather than the increasing urbanisation of ...

2023

Rhythmanalysis of Urban Events: Empirical Elements from the Montreux Jazz Festival

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Lucien Jean Delley, Nils Hamel

This article proposes an original approach to urban events mapping. At the theoretical level, the article is based on rhythmanalysis and recent research on urban rhythms. It contrasts with previous research by departing from everyday rhythms to tackle the ...

2020

Les grands projets urbains entre global et local : une étude de cas comparative de Casablanca et de Genève à travers les logiques de marché et les résistances locales.

Kamil Hajji

Globalization implies profound changes in territories that involve the emergence of major urban renewal projects. It has the effect of increasing competition between metropolises. In order to make a place for themselves in this increasingly competitive glo ...

EPFL2020

The optimum is not the goal: Capturing the decision space for the planning of new neighborhoods

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

This article presents the development and application of a methodology that employs optimization not to seek the single or few optimal plan(s) but to provide planners with a systematic overview of their decision space. As urban development projects are not ...

2018

Fostering sustainable urban renewal at the neighborhood scale with a spatial decision support system

Martine Laprise, Maria Gracia Riera Perez

Sustainable urban densification is one of the main challenges of European post-industrial cities. In Switzerland, a recent adaptation of the federal law on spatial planning reinforces the limitation of urban sprawl. Hence, public authorities are confronted ...

2018

Logement de masse

Alessandro Porotto

This research has investigated the urban policies about mass housing at the beginning of 20th century. This was a unifying and crucial issue of several modern experiences to which many European cities developed adequate answers showing a wide range of dist ...

EPFL2018

Rehabilitación energética de edificios residenciales en España y objetivo europeo 2050

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

One of the top priorities of European countries is to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the built environment. To reach this goal, urban renewal processes are seen as a core strategy towards a sustainable built fabric, given t ...

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya2017

Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

As tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, many strategies stress the importance of urban renewalprocesses to address current energy issues. This paper focuses on the Spanish residential building stockbuilt until 2001, which has a low level of energy ...

2017

Méthodologie multicritère d'aide à la décision pour le renouvellement urbain à l'échelle du quartier

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The present work develops a new methodology for assessing urban renewal scenarios at the neighborhood scale. Entitled URBIUS, this methodology seeks to meet the needs of municipalities in terms of planning for the development of their urban built fabric. I ...

EPFL2016

Can North-made IOT solutions address the challenges of emerging cities in the South? The case of Korean born Smart transportation card implementation in Bogota

Matthias Finger, Maxime Ugo Julien Audouin, Mohamad Razaghi

Over the course of the last ten years, the urban population in the Global South has grown at a rate of 1.2 million people per week, putting the developing countries at the center of the urban development in 21st century. This rapid urbanization resulted in ...

2016

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