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Regional planning
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Methods for Grid-aware Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks
The thesis presents methods for controlling and planning distributed energy resources (DERs) in active distribution networks (ADNs). It deals with three main challenges: (i) developing and experimentally validating grid-aware real-time control frameworks, ...
EPFL2023New perspectives for spatial planning in Switzerland: the role of ecosystem services
Spatial planning deals with the spatial expression of human activities in an integrated way to minimize their negative impacts on the natural and land systems. Rapid land use and land cover changes are important drivers of change of the benefits people der ...
EPFL2020Intermediate Cities
Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern
Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...
2019Application of Association Rules to Determine Building Typological Classes for Seismic Damage Predictions at Regional Scale: The Case Study of Basel
Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana
Assessing seismic vulnerability at large scales requires accurate attribution of individual buildings to more general typological classes that are representative of the seismic behavior of the buildings sharing same attributes. One-by-one evaluation of all ...
2019Decentralization for Productivity: The Politics of Welfare and the Introduction of Suburban Dream to Workers’ Housing in Postwar Turkey
The introduction of regional planning to Turkey dates to late 1950s in parallel to the postwar development discourse brewed under the agency of the Marshall Plan. The financial and technical assistance programs of the Marshall Plan and the United Nations p ...
2018Walking in Switzerland: urban and not so leisurely
Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie
Recently, walking has been embraced as a means of encouraging greater health and well-being, community improvement and more sustainable means of travel. Yet despite the significance of the subject there is as yet no integrated treatment of the subject in t ...
Routledge2018Integrating Bicycle Travel Demand into a Land-Use and Transport Model of the Greater Boston Area
Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss
In the last decades, travel demand models have progressed with tremendous development and are now routinely used to support planning and public policy decisions. However, active modes have often been overlooked and rarely considered as part of the solution ...
2017Dense or sprawling cities: what future for the peripheries of the Cities of the Global South?
In Nouakchott in Mauritania, as in all the Cities of the Global South, the demographic explosion has led to unbridled growth in peripheral zones. This process will continue in future decades when a new Afri- can urban population numbering hundreds of milli ...
2016Urbaniser 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 ...
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