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Roundabouts and City Limits: The Agency of Visual Phenomena

Antoine Vialle

This contribution proposal is based on a photographic campaign I have conducted over the last years on the borders of the Paris metropolitan and more specifically on the science campus located on the agricultural plateau of Saclay. It is supplemented with ...

2015

The dynamics of multifaceted gentrification. A comparative analysis of the trajectories of six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France region

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marie-Paule Thomas

In this article, we propose to examine the diversity of gentrification trajectories taken by six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France Region. To apprehend the dynamics of the different gentrification processes, we investigate the manner in which changes in ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

"They're Building Villas On the Roofs": Encountering Transnational Elites In a Geneva Central Neighborhood

Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

In the literature on cities and elite migration, the processes through which gentrified neighborhoods emerge and effect on urban life in terms of segregation have been widely studied. However, studies on how host societies negotiate the encounter with elit ...

2012

Towards Integrated Land Use and Transportation: A Dynamic Disequilibrium based Microsimulation Framework for Built Space Markets

Bilal Farooq

Investigating the factors and processes that influence the spatiotemporal distribution of built space and population in an urban area, plays an extremely important role in our greater understanding of the urban travel behaviour. Existing location of activi ...

2012

Morphogenèse de la ville contemporaine

Jong-Jin Park

Unstable growth, unlimited urban sprawl, and multiple fragmentations are contemporary urban phenomena requiring new investigations and interpretations of the physical impact of form on today's cities. The city as a living organism with an evolving structur ...

EPFL2010

Entre ville et campagne

Sophie Lufkin

Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...

EPFL2010

Phenols and amine induced HO center dot generation during the initial phase of natural water ozonation

Urs von Gunten

The initial phase of ozone decomposition in natural water (t < 20 s) is poorly understood. It has recently been shown to result in very high transient HO center dot concentrations and, thereby, plays an essential role during processes such as bromate forma ...

2006

Actionneur à deux degrés de liberté pour micro robot mobile

Reymond Clavel, Walter Driesen

Ce projet présente un actionneur à deux degrés de liberté (mouvement verticale et rotation) pour des micro-robots mobiles. L’actionneur possède un encombrement de 12 x 10.4 x 3 mm3 et une course de 5.5 mm. L’actionnement est basé sur le principe du stick-s ...

2005

"House poor" or simply "poor" ?

Philippe Thalmann

This paper defines a set of indicators for distinguishing housing affordability problems resulting from high rents from those chiefly arising from low income. In place of the common ratio of rent to income, it uses a residual income indicator with indicato ...

2003

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