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Automobility Beyond Car

Farzaneh Bahrami

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 ...

EPFL2017

Computational Analysis of Urban Places Using Mobile Crowdsensing

Darshan Santani

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 ...

EPFL2016

Spaces of Effort, Exploration of an Experience of Active Mobility

Alexandre André Robert Rigal, Farzaneh Bahrami

The poster explores the notion of Effort as an integral part of active mobility and in general of urban experience. Considering the increasing value of physical effort in urban life styles, we challenge the general premise of transport planning that tends ...

2016

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 ...

2016

Potentialities of the urban volume

Michael Robert Doyle

This dissertation looks at the urban volume, in its natural and artificial materiality, as a source of potential for future urbanization. Underground resourcesâfor buildable space, geomaterials, groundwater and geothermal energyâtend to be addressed on ...

EPFL2016

Aesthetics and Urbanity

Mirza Tursic

If we study the evolution of the urban space in Switzerland we must notice the high importance assigned by different urban actors to aesthetic questions. In a sense, the subjective realm of the aesthetic has proved to be able to generate conditions that le ...

2016

An exploration of moving walkways as a transport system in urban centers

Michel Bierlaire, André Ourednik, Riccardo Scarinci, Farzaneh Bahrami

Moving walkways (MW) have been imagined as a possible means of transport since the late 19th century, and this system has fascinated urban planners and engineers ever since. Contrary to what has been imagined, moving walkways are only used in transportatio ...

2016

Towards a Post-Car World. How (Not) to Experience the Future of Car Mobility

Vincent Kaufmann, Jérôme Chenal, Alexandre André Robert Rigal

In the face of the depletion of oil reserves in the near future, the considerable damages wrought by the automobile assemblage to urban life, and the threat of global warming, it is crucial to imagine a future without the car in order to preserve the quali ...

2015

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

Urban Experience: Remix of Attachments

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

I propose an essay for understanding how we experiment the fluidity, the density and diversity of the urban space. I purpose to reveal what I call the remix experience, that is to say the habit to of newness and otherness. This habit shows us the importanc ...

2014