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Elena Cogato Lanza

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De l’autosuffisance à la sécurité alimentaire. Notes sur l’expérience suisse en vue d’une transition territoriale

Elena Cogato Lanza, Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret

La sécurité alimentaire constitue l’un des trois enjeux fondamentaux d’une transition urbaine et territoriale, les deux autres concernant la biodiver- sité et la densité. En Suisse, la sécurité alimentaire représente un horizon dont les contenus, modalités ...

2019

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In recent decades, cities and territories have radically changed; the ecological, societal and technological transition has opened up an entirely new season of thinking in the field of urbanism, entailing a necessary and deep revision of tools, categories ...

http://contourjournal.org2019

Comparing habitats. Reframing comparison in the “post - disciplinary” era

Elena Cogato Lanza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Martina Barcelloni Corte

This Thematic Issue compiles the peer-reviewed articles resulting from the contributions to the the International PhD Seminar "Comparing Habitats". The seminar took place was organized by the Laboratory of Urbanism EPFL , Habitat Research Center EPFL, Inst ...

Contour journal for interdisciplinary research in architecture, design and planning2019

From Self-Sufficiency to Food Security. Notes on the Swiss Experimental Heritage

Elena Cogato Lanza

Through this lecture Elena Cogato Lanza presents the Swiss Plan Wahlen, a regime of intensive food production and food rationing, introduced during the Second World War in an effort to increase food self-sufficiency of the nation. The talk establishes a de ...

2019

Dessiner des (éco)systèmes agro-urbains résilients se concentre sur la relation entre dynamiques urbaines et rurales, en situation de compétition dans l’usage des mêmes ressources – le sol, l’eau et l’énergie. La confrontation entre besoin de densité et sé ...

2019

Architecture, système agricole et construction

Elena Cogato Lanza

2019

André Corboz, un portrait intellectuel

Elena Cogato Lanza

Centré sur l’étude de la nouvelle ville de Carouge (projetée et construite par l’Etat de Savoie au XVIIIe siècle près de Genève), l’ouvrage d’André Corboz Invention de Carouge (1968) était une tentative ambitieuse de combiner étude historique, analyse urba ...

2019

Carouge et le principe de la proximité

Elena Cogato Lanza

2019

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"

Paola Viganò, Elena Cogato Lanza, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Chiara Cavalieri, Christian Arnsperger

In light of the rapid population growth forecast for the coming years and the powerful transformations already occurring throughout its whole territory, today's Switzerland stands in urgent need of critical reflection on its urban future. A novel set of co ...

Cogitatio Press2017

Experimenting Proximity. The Urban Landscape Observatory

Elena Cogato Lanza

What are the best tools for assessing the quality of an urban space or landscape, in terms of social, physiological, aesthetic, and functional well-being? What features – spatial, material, or visual – can make some areas of a city welcoming, and perhaps e ...

Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes2014