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Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories
Paola Viganò, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Qinyi Zhang
A brief critique of the evolution of ecological perspectives surrounding the current environmental crises in the age of climate age and Anthropogenic impacts is highlighted across the inter-disciplinary fields of landscape, urbanism, and ecology. First, re ...
Springer Cham2023Renewable Land: Planning the Evolution of Logistic Areas
Land is the support of life and the generator of energy cycles in the planet, also being a finite resource. The first consequence of urban population growth and build environment expansion is land consumption. Present strategies reduce this expenditure, ge ...
UNIV POLITECNICA CATALUNYA2021Mapping Urbanization as an Anthropedogenetic Process: A Section through the Times of Urban Soils
Current trends of spatial planning policies give a strategic role to soils, the multifunctionality of which must be considered as a crucial driver facing cities’ forthcoming social-ecological transition. However, soils within urban areas are insufficiently ...
2020Life-Cycle Assessment as a decision-support tool for early phases of urban planning: evaluating applicability through a comparative approach
Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Émilie Nault, Katarina Slavkovic
While ambitious environmental objectives are being set for new constructions in Switzerland, the assessment of urban-scale projects and comparison of their performance to national targets are made possible by a growing number of life-cycle assessment (LCA) ...
IOP Publishing2019Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities
In Switzerland, as elsewhere, over the past decades, urban areas have spread outwards â consuming the surrounding countryside in the process. The result has been an urban growth associated with negative effects such as the loss of cultivated land.
Sprawl ...
EPFL2019L'événement proxémique : étude des relations de circulation entre piétons aux heures de pointe à Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo
In a context of traffic networks saturation related to urbanisation acceleration, this research is aimed at contributing to the scientific debate on this issue by building a model to describe dynamic pedestriansâ physical distances regulation behaviours ...
EPFL2018The scaling structure of the global road network
Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Emanuele Strano, Andrea Giometto
Because of increasing global urbanization and its immediate consequences, including changes in patterns of food demand, circulation and land use, the next century will witness a major increase in the extent of paved roads built worldwide. To model the effe ...
2017Living Without a Car
This research explores the links between social exclusion, car dependence and public policies for members of non-motorized households who are potentially socially excluded. It is at the crossroads of urban sociology, public policy and transport geography. ...
EPFL2017Dépasser les bornes
Urban areas across Europe are constantly expanding under the pressure of demographics and of ever-increasing mobility. Meanwhile, the institutional boundaries of the various communities that make up these urban areas remain remarkably stable. The resulting ...
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