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Trevor Patt

The thesis proposes a projective theory for contemporary urbanism that equates the active processes of the city and a new orientation for procedural urban design within a single line of thought that delineates the concept of a generic organizationâone th ...

EPFL2016

Dense or sprawling cities: what future for the peripheries of the Cities of the Global South?

Jérôme Chenal

In Nouakchott in Mauritania, as in all the Cities of the Global South, the demographic explosion has led to unbridled growth in peripheral zones. This process will continue in future decades when a new Afri- can urban population numbering hundreds of milli ...

2016

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

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

Flânerie in the alternative cultural spaces of Lisbon

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Lisbon is a city of labyrinthine paths, due mostly to its irregular territory. The experiment of Flânerie in is explored in this paper through the identification of particular paths linked to the contemporary alternative cultural life, a debate being under ...

2015

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

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of the alternative culture

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Yves Pedrazzini, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The category of “creative city” is far from neutral. Indeed, it can be linked to very contrasted – and even opposed – practices and urban worlds. In order to grasp those differences, we need to take a closer look at what is entailed in the concepts of “cre ...

Urbancreativity.org2014

Boundaries and Urban Worlds. The Contested Ethnoscape of Expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

After having for long time been neglected by social anthropologists, cities are nowadays central in numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themse ...

2013

Detailing the small city. Building in the built world

Inès Lamunière

Ines Lamuniere will exemplify the attitude of dl-a, / Devanthery & Lamuniere, in architecture by two of their most recent projects for city centers in Switzerland. The Opera House in Lausanne, the national TV Tower in Geneva and other projects still in des ...

2013