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Dalmine: From Company Town to Hybridized Productive Habitat
The establishment of company towns played a significant role in developing both urban and rural areas in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By combining historical and urban research, this study provides findings about the industry's pol ...
Louvain research institute for Landscape, Archi- tecture, Built environment, UCLouvain2023Big company, Small town. Spatial and Social Capital in a Persistent Company Town.
Something that is not much discussed when talking about Dalmine is the impact of its production as a supply chain sustaining extractive operations that also serve as a dominance and land exploitation mechanism. For instance, Dalmine supplied various oil an ...
2023Rethinking urban health in productive habitats: a One Health approach perspective
Urban planning in the twentieth century has expressed as one of its main objectives its concern for the health of cities. With the advent of the hygiene movement and the decentralization of industry, new urban models and rationalities came into practice, e ...
2021Projet COOP.Coopérative agricole dans le "township" de Walmer à Port Elizabeth (Afrique du Sud)
«'Mon nom est Mzimasi, mais tout le monde m'appelle Zizi, annonçait le jeune homme. Au début le terrain que l'on nous avait donné ressemblait à une déchetterie. Recouvert de mauvaises herbes, il était jonché par des centaines de déchets en tout genre, alla ...
2019We say we are fine. They say we are not.
Slender yet densely packed with images, this 44-page publication presents items discovered during an artistic research project that investigated various relationships between Swiss people and the South African apartheid regime in the 1980s and 1990s. Adver ...
Auto-édité par Denise Bertschi2018Urbaniser les Alpes suisses
Regional planning, especially in the Alps, is high on the current news agenda in Switzer- land, more so than ever before. The skiing boom has driven massive urbanisation in mountain areas, primarily in locations at altitudes of 1400m or higher. For several ...
EPFL2016Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China
Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...
EPFL2015Modernisation de la champagne chinoise: scenarios urbains alternatifs pour la plaine de Chengdu
Marlène Audrey Bertille Leroux
The author’s doctoral research is primarily focused on analysing the issue of rural urbanisation as a key sustainable development challenge – based on the conviction that rural areas today must be studied on their own account and no longer simply understoo ...
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