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Yves Pedrazzini

Yves Pedrazzini is MER / Senior Scientist in the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LaSUR), Faculty of Natural, Architectural and Build Environment (ENAC) of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL).   For more than 20 years, he analyses urban dynamics, social practices, urban cultures, violence and insecurity phenomena, in North and South countries. In 1987, he began ethnographical studies of youth armed gangs in Latin-American slums, developing innovative qualitative methods to make them real protagonists of the research process. Since 1997, Yves Pedrazzini added to his urban experience in Latin America (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela) new expertise of African urban contexts (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Senegal). He published many books and articles on urban violence and Security/insecurity issues, from a sociological and anthropological point of view.

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Courses taught by this person (4)
AR-465: Urban habitat and developement
Centré sur les formes d'habitat des plus pauvres dans les pays du Sud et du Nord et les contextes de crises, en particulier les architectures d'urgence, le cours propose une analyse critique de l'urba
AR-466: UE D : Territory and society
L'UED Territoire et société a pour objectif de familiariser l'étudiant.e avec les méthodes d'observation des SHS en développant une réflexion sur les transformations des villes suisses à partir d'un t
PENS-217: Living in emergency
PENS-217 propose une compréhension technique et sociale de l'habitat d'urgence. Pour cela, il s'agira de concevoir un camp de réfugié.e.s habitable, puis d'y construire un abri et son équipement d'ass
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La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes

Vincent Kaufmann, Yves Pedrazzini, Martin Schuler, Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet, Maxime Carl Felder, Franziska Meinherz, Renate Albrecher, Carmen Fischer, Gian Paolo Torricelli

Et si l'on pensait la Suisse urbaine non pas à partir de ses métropoles, mais de ces villes comme le pays en compte des dizaines ? Celles-ci représentent davantage la norme que l'exception dans le paysage helvétique contemporaine. Pourtant, en Suisse, comm ...
EPFL Press2024

Appropriate Communal Open Spaces: Principle 6

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Principle 6 stresses that an appropriate proportion, number, organization and equitable distribution of Communal Open Spaces are essential for the sustainability of any settlement on the long-term, and should consider cultural, social and environmental asp ...
EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022
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