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Background Phenomena like rapid growth, unmanageable cities, an urban space in crisis, and the disproportionate expansion of capital cities have rendered instruments traditionally associated with planned urbanism ill-suited for city planning today. Traditi ...

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The determination of the sensible heat flux over urban terrain is challenging due to irregular surface geometry and surface types. To address this, in 2006–07, a major field campaign (LUCE) took place at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne campus, ...

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In a globalized space where mobility is growing, the capacities of attraction of the city are becoming increasingly decisive. Between the cities, through its attractive quality and attraction capacity, the university will become a decisive factor of locati ...

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Geneva Lessons

Harry Gugger, Tarramo Broennimann

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Vers une nouvelle socio-géographie de la mobilité quotidienne. Etude des mobilités quotidiennes des habitants de la région urbaine de Grenoble

A link to a wide range of spatio-temporal practices, mobility is nowadays an important factor of social relations. If the spatio-temporal practices and mobility forms are not homogenous, how can we, however, describe them, qualify and make them more compre ...

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La ville comme "Stimmungslandschaft"

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The relevance of space in human life is increasing. The point of equilibrium between constraint and freedom has moved. Individuals have become actors of their own spatiality as well as of the spatiality of others. Social actors must develop an explicit com ...

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