Publications related to Zürich

Between the Lines: On the Explicit and Implicit in Writing and Building

Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: both weave between the human, personal and emotional experience of place and the physical, spatial and atmospheric place – a dialogue between the inner and ...

2018

Measurement of Precipitation in the Alps Using Dual-Polarization C-Band Ground-Based Radars, the GPM Spaceborne Ku-Band Radar, and Rain Gauges

Alexis Berne, Peter James Speirs, Marco Gabella, Urs Martin Germann

The complex problem of quantitative precipitation estimation in the Alpine region is tackled from four different points of view: (1) the modern MeteoSwiss network of automatic telemetered rain gauges (GAUGE); (2) the recently upgraded MeteoSwiss dual-polar ...

2017

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

Sensing the air we breathe - The OpenSense Zurich dataset

Boi Faltings, Jingshi Li

Monitoring and managing urban air pollution is a significant challenge for the sustainability of our environment. We quickly survey the air pollution modeling problem, introduce a new dataset of mobile air quality measurements in Zurich, and discuss the ch ...

2012

CITYSIM simulation: the case study of Alt-Wiedikon, a neighbourhood of Zürich City

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Maria Papadopoulou, Diane Perez, Urs Wilke

As research in building energy demand simulation is reaching maturity, there is now a growing interest in the evaluation of the energy need of larger and/or pre-existing urban areas [1, 2, 3], to evaluate the energy performance associated with alternative ...

EPFL2011

Assessing airport noise, demand for quietness and land-structure substitution : three applications of the hedonic model in Switzerland

Marco Salvi

This dissertation collects three essays on the hedonic modelling of housing prices, location attributes and environmental amenities – or lack thereof. The first essay applies spatial econometric techniques to measure the impact of airport noise on the pric ...

EPFL2009

Using the hedonic approach to value natural land uses in an urban area: An application to Geneva and Zurich

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

We apply the hedonic model to the rental markets of the Geneva and Zurich urban areas, Switzerland, in order to assess the value of natural land uses and land use diversity. In order to construct variables to quantify land uses and patterns in the neighbou ...

2008

Do Foreigners Pay Higher Rents for the Same Quality of Housing in Geneva and Zurich?

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

The Geneva and Zurich housing markets are characterised by high proportions of foreigners and a large share of rental housing. This provides ideal conditions for testing whether foreigners pay more for the same quality of housing than Swiss households and ...

2008