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Spatial Democracy, a Capability Approach towards Commensurability

Metropolitanization, through the upscaling of urban systems and lifestyles, changes the political patterns of urban areas. Many models of governance have been proposed both to improve the quality and optimize efficiency of urban policies. However surveys s ...

2013

Designing complexity, The relationship between obsolescence systems and densification strategies for large-scale intermodal hubs in contemporary European cities

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

The metropolis can be analysed as an infrastructure in perpetual motion, composed of built elements – the system “hardware” – and social networks – the system “software”. The emergence of an overall city-scale infrastructure composed not of a single unit b ...

LIAT / ENSA Paris Malaquais2013

Estimated reduction of energy consumption related to mobility in urban renewal projects

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The urban sprawl that characterizes most European cities relies highly on the use of private motor vehicle. As a result, there is a prominent increase in the energy consumption of the built environment. Therefore, the densification of existing urban areas ...

2013

Morphology of pillow-hollow and quilted-cover bedforms in Lake Geneva, Switzerland

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Yosef Akhtman, Nicolas Le Dantec, Dragos Constantin

Extensive areas of the bottom of Lake Geneva are covered with bedforms that have been referred to as pillow-hollows and quilted-cover pattern by prior observers, as well as with sediment waves and trenches. These structures are decimeter to meter scale. A ...

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and SHOM2013

Are motorways rational from slime mould's point of view ?

Emanuele Strano

We analyse the results of our experimental laboratory approximation of motorways networks with slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Motorway networks of fourteen geographical areas are considered: Australia, Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, I ...

2012

Management of the bedload transport of the Milibach torrent for flood protection purpose – physical model based study

Anton Schleiss, Fadi Hachem

The Milibach River between Hasliberg-Reuti and Meiringen agglomerations in Switzerland has a limited hydraulic capacity leading to frequent flooding. During the 2005 flood event, large populated areas were inundated and damages exceeding many millions of S ...

International Research Society Interpraevent2012

A new energy and natural resources investigation method: Geneva case studies

Pascal Blunier, Pascal Piguet, Olivier Ouzilou

The Praille-Acacias-Vernets suburb, located in Geneva, Switzerland, is today considered as an outworn city area (2.3 km(2)). It consists of parking lots, industries, businesses and marshalling yards. The Geneva Government decided to remodel this suburb to ...

2011

Flood management in the Upper Rhone River basin: from forecast to decision

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández, Tristan Jonas Brauchli

The MINERVE project of flood forecast and management upstream from Lake Geneva is nowadays operational. It aims to protect against inundations in the Rhone Valley, through the Valais and Vaud Cantons. Two main objectives are expected. The first is the hydr ...

2011

Switzerland as a Single Metropolitan Area? A Study of its Commuting Network

Vincent Kaufmann, Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet, Christophe Jemelin

Parmi les nombreux ingrédients qui, ensemble, produisent les zones urbaines, trois méritent une attention particulière car leur relation évolue: la centralité fonctionnelle, la morphologie des zones bâties et le mode de vie. Ces trois caractéristiques ne c ...

2010

Morphogenèse de la ville contemporaine

Jong-Jin Park

Unstable growth, unlimited urban sprawl, and multiple fragmentations are contemporary urban phenomena requiring new investigations and interpretations of the physical impact of form on today's cities. The city as a living organism with an evolving structur ...

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