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Designed by Just Lisch for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the Invalides train station gave the French western railway company a more central terminus in Paris, right next to the exhibition pavilions and the river Seine. From 1893 onwards, the project was ...

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Quartiers rhodaniens en transition

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Over the course of history, the relationship between cities and their waters has shown different gradients of interweaving, marked by cycles of bonding and distancing. Following a period of complete neglect of urban watercourses, the versatile, multifacete ...

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Swiss Coloniality – Unearthing its (in)visibilities: Tracing a fragmented visual and material history of Swiss coloniality between Switzerland and Brazil

Denise Bertschi

Artists, urbanists, anthropologists, architects and other specialists from Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan and other countries are the participants of the “Colonial Endurance Across Eastern Geographies” laboratory. Together they are to exp ...

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Tranquil Vertical Bathhouse in Hong Kong

Tongxin Li

The title of the project is From “Hortus Conclusus” to Tranquility Space in the City. By taking inspiration from the form, materials, and elements of medieval monasteries, the aim is to explore how to create physical and spiritual spaces of tranquility in ...

2023

Facets of Urban Co-Creation

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Participation in the context of urban planning is growing in the urban and architectural processes of democratic cities. Urban co-creation means working with communities by integrating their needs, giving them the opportunity to collaborate in the transfor ...

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Surface temperature is one of the critical factors used to study microclimate conditions through Land surface Temperature (LST), a widely used data source. This paper tests a classification approach using moderate spatial satellite resolution images to ext ...

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OUR COMMON SOILS: West Lausanne Urbanization as Anthropedogenesis, A Section through the Spaces and Times of Urban Soils

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Motivated by ever-increasing soil degradation and artificialization due to past and present urban growth dynamics, the current trend of spatial planning policies at the European and Swiss levels is promoting increased soil protection, by avoiding new devel ...

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Reviewing the application of machine learning methods to model urban form indicators in planning decision support systems : potential, issues and challenges

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Modern cities dynamically face several challenges including digitalization, sustainability, resilience and economic development. Urban planners and designers must develop urban forms that address these challenges. With the integration of new communication ...

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Data Management Plans: the Importance of Data Management in the BIG-MAP Project[**]

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Ivano Eligio Castelli

Open access to research data is increasingly important for accelerating research. Grant authorities therefore request detailed plans for how data is managed in the projects they finance. We have recently developed such a plan for the EU H2020 BIG-MAP proje ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Post-political debate has stimulated a vigorous research agenda about the role of politics in regional and urban planning. It warns of a depoliticization process leading to the emergence of a consensual social order and the retreat of the properly politica ...

2021