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A Framework for Measuring Urban Sprawl from Crowd-Sourced Data

Martí Bosch Padrós

The amount of people living in cities by 1800 was roughly around 3 percent of the world population. This number has increased dramatically during the last centuries, and currently it is estimated that one out of two people lives in cities. Furthermore, acc ...

2016

Making land use Transport models operational tools for planning: From a top-down to an end-user approach

Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent

Land Use and Transport Integrated models (LUTIs) are promising approaches for urban planning. There is large literature describing their technical architectures or using them in various scientific contexts. Yet little attention has been paid to expectation ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighbourhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

Utilizing the results of a case study on the Gare-Lac sector in the city of Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland - the site is currently a large urban brownfield, intended to host ca. 3,800 additional inhabitants and 1,200 jobs upon completion - this work examin ...

Springer2016

Urbanity and Construction of the City

Alessandro Porotto

Urbanity is a real quality of an urban place. This concept means that the urbanity is inextricably related to the architecture of a place, the architecture of the city. The presence of the built environment is the first essential condition for the developm ...

2015

Concevoir à grande échelle

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

Large-scale design - Mobility interface models and urban transformation strategies This research project is based on the hypothesis that the urban transformations generated by mobility interfaces constitute a key component of successful sustainable urban ...

EPFL2015

Habiter Cheonggyecheon. L’exception ordinaire

Jacques Lévy

What can a place, discovered by chance and strolled along as any ordinary, permanent or ephemeral, inhabitant tell us? Cheongggyecheon is a small river that had once been turned into a sewer then topped by an elevated expressway and in 2005 transformed int ...

2015

Productive ecologies: Redefining the centrality and marginality of the city-territory

Roberto Sega

With the aim of identifying different perspectives for the future of territory – starting from the dimension of production in the context of urban sprawl – this PhD research intends opening a critical reflections on the dynamics of territorial polarization ...

2015

Relationship between land cover type and Body Mass Index in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Jens Ingensand, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer, Alain Clémence

Past studies conducted in urban areas analyzed the impact of the presence of green spaces on public health, and highlighted in particular the psychological benefits of interacting with nature. To investigate a supposed relationship between overweight and d ...

IEEE2015

Breaking Vertical Boundaries. The Spatial Logics and Underground Potential of San Antonio, Texas.

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piece-meal out of necessity rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. The underground contains not only potential usable space, but also raw materials, groundwater and geotherma ...

2014

GREEN DENSITY

Sophie Lufkin

The research and teaching project GREEN DENSITY focuses on the sector of Waldstadt, a strip of forest bordering the city of Bern and separated from the Bremgarten forest by the highway. This field of investigation is particularly adapted to explore the abo ...

2014