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Edge city
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Periurbanization and the Transformation of the Urban Mortality Gradient in Switzerland
While regional differences in life expectancy have flattened out in Switzerland, we investigate the effect of periurbanization on the geography of mortality. Using data from vital statistics and censuses, we find an increasing intra-urban differentiation o ...
2017Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways
Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Iliya Dimitrov Markov
Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an in ...
2017Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways
Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Iliya Dimitrov Markov
Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an in ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways
Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Iliya Dimitrov Markov
Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an in ...
2016Quantitative analysis of structural changes during rapid urban growth
New quantitative measures of urban structural changes are introduced and applied to the fast-growing city of Kerman, Iran. The results of 20,802 street measurements show that the main street orientations are orthogonal, both in the old inner part and in th ...
American Society of Civil Engineers2015A Large Eddy Simulation to determine the effect of trees on wind and turbulence over a suburban surface
Marc Parlange, Marco Giovanni Giometto, Andreas Christen
A proper modeling of flow and turbulence within and over urban canopies is key to properly predict air pollution and dispersion in cities. Trees are an integral part of the urban landscape. In many suburban neighborhoods, tree cover is 10 to 30% and trees ...
2014Analysing and modelling the growth and efficiency of urban transportation infrastructures
Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni
The total population of the United Kingdom is expected to increase from 63 million in 2011 to 73 million people in 2037. This is an increase by 16% in 26 years, which puts the urban infrastructure, particularly the transportation infrastructure, under grea ...
2014Suburban Dystopia And Shopping As A Soap Opera
With an approach between theatre, urban analysis, mapping and deconstruction, this 'glide' through Brasilia is an attempt to understand its urban tissue, formed through architectural action and spontaneous appropriation. In the city laid out between a mode ...
2012Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique
Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...
EPFL2012Changes in Employment Localization and Accessibility
Until about the end of WWII, the territorial organization of the economy could be expressed along a very strong center-periphery gradient, with industries and services concentrated in cities while the countryside supplied agricultural products. Since the i ...
EPFL2011