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Urban sustainability assessment in Geneva: Relevance of the local neighbourhood unit

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, François Golay, Melissa Pang

The physical characteristics of an urban system are typically heterogeneously expressed, creating distinct neighbourhoods shaped by specific local features. Hence, spatially explicit expression of sustainability across the urban system is expected and shou ...

Sage2022

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalise, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with them. As a result, more than 100 households living in 66 traditional ...

Routledge2021

Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: a new step for urbanization and consumption Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Theurillat The 2022 Beijing Winter Games is a multiscale state project involving Central, Provincial, Municipal and Districts Governments. It ai ...

2021

From metrics towards meaningful assessments of urban sustainability - exploring visions, frameworks and indicators

Pekka Jaakko Halla

Problem statement. Cities hold a central role in global efforts towards sustainability, and integrating sustainability concerns into the governance of cities constitutes an increasingly urgent challenge. One avenue holding promise in this respect concerns ...

EPFL2021

Public Strategies for Artificial Intelligence: Which Value Drivers?

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Gianluigi Viscusi

We question the values that inform the artificial intelligence (AI) strategies developed by governments and institutions at the global level. In particular, we investigate the connection between governments? and institutions? fundamental values, second-ord ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Entangled Memories in the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalize, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with it. As a result, more than one hundred households living in 66 tradit ...

2019

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eléonore Labattut

In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...

2019

Vulnerability Assessment of Buildings in Ranau Township: Methodological Design

Pierino Lestuzzi, Noor Sheena Herayani Harith

Structural damage usually happens during earthquake events. This had caused damage of properties and even worse, loss of lives. Usually, the greatest losses were not caused by the quake specifically, but rather because of the fall of the structures. The vu ...

UKM PRESS2019

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

Florence Graezer Bideau

2018

What Regulations For Ict-Based Mobility Services In Urban Transportation Systems? The Cases Of Ride-Booking Regulation In Sao-Paulo And Rio De Janeiro

Maxime Ugo Julien Audouin

Urban transportation is currently experiencing major changes, namely because of disruptive innovations driven by the information and communication technologies (ICTs). During the past few years, ride-booking has emerged in many cities around the world as o ...

WIT PRESS2018

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