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Optimisation of solar energy utilisation potential in the urban context

Around three quarters of global resource consumption takes place in urban settlements, with corresponding adverse environmental consequences. According to population forecasts this situation will be exacerbated during the coming years. It is therefore impe ...

2010

CITYSIM: Comprehensive Micro-Simulation of Resource Flows for Sustainable Urban Planning

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi, Diane Perez, Adil Rasheed, Urs Wilke, Philippe Leroux

In this paper we describe new software “CitySim” that has been conceived to support the more sustainable planning of urban settlements. This first version focuses on simulating buildings’ energy flows, but work is also under way to model energy embodied in ...

2009

On the modelling and optimisation of urban energy fluxes

Jérôme Henri Kämpf

Around 3/4 of global resources are currently consumed in urban settlements, with corresponding adverse environmental consequences. According to population forecasts this situation will worsen in the coming years. It is therefore imperative that we understa ...

EPFL2009

Crowd Patches: Populating Large-Scale Virtual Environments for Real-Time Applications

Daniel Thalmann, Jonathan Maim, Barbara Yersin

Populating virtual environments (VEs) with large crowds is a subject that has been tackled for several years. Solutions have been proposed to offer realistic trajectories as well as interactivity, but limitations remain on the environment dimensions with r ...

2009

Towards integrated decision support for sustainable urban planning

Darren Robinson

Over half of the global population is now living within urban settlements in which some three quarters of global resource consumption takes place. The environmental consequences of this urbanisation are both profound and increasing. It is thus important th ...

2008

Towards integrated decision support for sustainable urban planning

Darren Robinson

2008

Urban District Energy Futures: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis (MFA) Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

With more than half the world population now urbanised, urban metabolism – defined as the throughput and transformation of material and energy flows to sustain human life in urban settlements – is responsible for consuming the majority of global resources ...

EPFL2007

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