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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 ...

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Automobility Beyond Car

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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 ...

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The creativity trap : semantic and pragmatic study of creative capitalism

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The urban order has fashioned a new grammar. In literal terms, the theories of the creative class, creative economy and creative city function as a unit that is both descriptive and prescriptive; they have the advantage of taking into account the utility o ...

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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 ...

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Machine Vision Algorithms on Cadaster Plans

Isabella Di Lenardo, Sofia Ares Oliveira

Cadaster plans are cornerstones for reconstructing dense representations of the history of the city. They provide information about the city urban shape, enabling to reconstruct footprints of most important urban components as well as information about the ...

2017

Machine Vision Algorithms on Cadaster Plans

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Sofia Ares Oliveira

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Aesthetic Space

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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 ...

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Boundaries and urban worlds: the contested ethnoscape of expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

Numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themselves remain insufficient. Based on ethnographic work within the United Nations office in Geneva, thi ...

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Computational Analysis of Urban Places Using Mobile Crowdsensing

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In cities, urban places provide a socio-cultural habitat for people to counterbalance the daily grind of urban life, an environment away from home and work. Places provide an environment for people to communicate, share perspectives, and in the process for ...

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Advancing Analytical Tools to Understand Urban Planning: Mapping Controversies around the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Christine Lutringer-Gully

The proposed article suggests that urban studies are in need of new tools to describe and analyze the different “regimes of urbanization” in an increasingly heterogeneous urban world. In order to create dynamic and relational descriptions of contemporary c ...

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