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Provenance-based Reconciliation In Conflicting Data

Chi Thang Duong

Data fusion is the process of resolving conflicting data from multiple data sources. As the data sources are inherently heterogenous, there is a need for an expert to resolve the conflicting data. Traditional approach requires the expert to resolve a consi ...

2016

Multiple resources and their sustainable development in Urban Underground Space

Aurèle Parriaux, Chao Liu, Huanqing Li

Traffic congestion and ground space scarcity are increasing the need to find more space in the urban underground. The demand-driven "top-down" planning of Urban Underground Space (UUS) is common worldwide. As natural resource, the endowments of UUS are dif ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

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

From Hydro/Geology to the Streetscape: Evaluating Urban Underground Resource Potential

Michael Robert Doyle

Despite a persistent call for a greater recognition of the underground in urban planning practices, cities still tend to address underground resources only when the need arises. Historically, this has proven costly for cities that have neglected the potent ...

Elsevier2016

The Role of Ocean Space in Contemporary Urbanization

Nancy Raewyn Couling

Although the ocean is investigated by many scientific fields, research about ocean space is scarce. But energy production, extraction of resources, infrastructural and logistical development is increasing incrementally, resulting in a quantum shift in scal ...

EPFL2015

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

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

Translating the City: Interdisciplinarity in urban studies

Yves Pedrazzini, Stéphanie Vincent, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy, Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urb ...

EPFL Press / Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group2015

Geotypen : ein neues Konzept zur Optimierung geologischer Informationen für die Raumplanung

Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Turberg

When we have to valorise the geological information for land planning or engineering applications, it is difficult to integrate the large complexity of the maps of the Swiss Geological Atlas at the scale of 1:25'000. The heterogeneity of the legends betwee ...

2015

The Charter of Elements

Matthew Skjonsberg, Isabella Maria Pasqualini

An overview of the ‘new’ Charter of Athens, asserting and formulating the rights of the elements so as to ensure the fundamental right to life of all, from urban centers to the web of life upon which they rely – thereby fundamentally ‘advocating’ and ‘faci ...

2015