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Modelling Urban Transitions: A Social Practice Theoretic Approach to the Urban Metabolism

Franziska Meinherz

Urban growth and the increase of the human environmental imprint has led to a growing interest in urban sustainability, a field mainly addressed by urban ecology and urban metabolism studies. The realisation that the urban material and energy flows are mai ...

2017

As vias que removem não abrem caminhos

Mariana Fernandes Mendes

With the 2014 World Cup's confirmation in Brazil, the country massively invested in several road constructions throughout the twelve host cities, alleging that the urban mobility sector needed to be better suited and that this would be the greatest legacy ...

University of Campinas2017

Why is promoting daily walking not a priority in European cities? A review and research agenda

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie, Jean Simos

Promoting daily walking is one of the most efficient means of improving urban health, but is rarely recognised as a priority at city level. This contribution investigates the hypothesis that evidence about the importance of walking is having a limited effe ...

2017

Automobility Beyond Car

Farzaneh Bahrami

How is the future of automobility imagined today? What has structured such imaginary ? And what levers can steer its evolution towards a Post-Car World? These very three questions form the foundational motivations of this thesis. First, through a h ...

EPFL2017

The socio-economic determinants of urban sprawl between 1980 and 2010 in Switzerland

Barbara Franziska Weilenmann, Irmi Seidl

Sprawl, as a particular characterisation of spatial extension of urbanised areas, is a contested issue. In this paper we provide an analysis of the major socio-economic determinants of changes in those urban patterns considered as sprawl in Switzerland. Ou ...

2017

Penser (par) la carte

Carole Thérèse Lanoix

What do Marine Drive and Shibuya have in common? Both the long promenade at the southern end of Mumbai, and the gigantic pedestrian crossing in the heart of the Japanese capital, are places where one walks. This thesis discusses places of convergence and o ...

EPFL2017

Crise et gouvernance

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

On January 12 2010, Haiti was hit by an earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale. Close to 220,000 persons died, more than 300,000 were wounded and almost two other million were displaced. The earthquake¿s epicenter was actually several kilometers away the c ...

EPFL2017

Integrating 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 ...

2017

Aesthetic Space

Mirza Tursic

Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...

EPFL2017

Urban Scars: From invisible to visible – In Beijing and Mexico City

Yves Pedrazzini, Florence Graezer Bideau, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Memory is a process that works through the identification of social references within a spatial framework, without physical marks necessarily found in the tangible present. Nonetheless, these references subsist in representations from the past and continue ...

Icono 142017