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This paper is based on an interdisciplinary study – mixing sociology, anthropology, urban planning and architecture - of 40 years of urban struggles in a small neighborhood of Geneva called Les Grottes. In the 70’s, Les Grottes was the place of birth of Ge ...
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 ...
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 ...
Turkey has been facing an aesthetic revivalism of Ottoman and Anatolian Seljuk architecture within public space, a phenomenon which is having been observed not only in the construction of new public buildings but also the renovation of historical housing d ...
Inès Devanthéry-Lamunière will discuss built ans research projects wich question the densification of existing contexts, both urban and rural. From city centers, to suburban backgrounds, and rural settings, architecture is facing the idea of modification m ...
In recent years, interest in crowd dynamics and pedestrian modeling is reviving due to urban growth and its pressure on urban infrastructure. Crowd and pedestrian simulation is emerging as a tool for designing new infrastructures and optimizing the use of ...
Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis – the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable—at least not by using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory approaches for making the city, it nonetheless s ...
Due to its drastic development and evolution from a unique urban model to a new form of an “African City”, Africa's capital city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was presented as an exemplary city pointing out issues evolving from rapid urbanization and the implemen ...
The post-industrial European city is characterized by dispersed urbanization, resulting in increased travel, substantial use of land, social disparities and costs that are unsustainable in the long term. Consequently, most European countries have set the g ...
During the last few decades, environmental impact of the fossil fuel-based transportation infrastructure has led to renewed interest in electric transportation infrastructure, especially in urban public mass-transportation sector. Generally, electric buses ...