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Intermediate Cities
Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern
Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...
2019Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments
Urbanization drives the epidemiology of infectious diseases to many threats and new challenges. In this research, we study the interplay between human mobility and dengue outbreaks in the complex urban environment of the city-state of Singapore. We integra ...
Springer2019Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l'horizon 2050
Since the Industrial Revolution, urban spaces have undergone a profound reorganisation in parallel with a transformation of society and lifestyles. Urban sprawl has become widespread in Switzerland, as in countless countries, due to continuous innovations ...
EPFL2019Peri-urban residential neighborhoods at the margins current trends in urban growth: towards sustainable transition paths?
Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles
In Switzerland as in most European countries, the last decades of urban development have put much pressure on the environment due to uncontrolled urban sprawl. The existing peripheral residential built-up areas mostly composed of single-family houses are r ...
2018Peri-urban residential neighbourhoods at the margins of current trends in urban growth: towards sustainable transition paths ?
Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Guillaume Lucas
In Switzerland as in most european countries, the last decades of urban development have put much pressure on the environment due to uncontrolled urban sprawl. The existing peripheral residential built-up areas mostly composed of single-family houses are r ...
2018Periurbanization and the Transformation of the Urban Mortality Gradient in Switzerland
While regional differences in life expectancy have flattened out in Switzerland, we investigate the effect of periurbanization on the geography of mortality. Using data from vital statistics and censuses, we find an increasing intra-urban differentiation o ...
2017Peri-urban communities in transition: transformation scenarios of neighbourhoods towards sustainability
Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles
The paper outlines the theoretical context and preliminary outputs of the investigation on the prospective evolution of existing peri-urban neighborhoods of single-family houses toward lower carbon and more resilient communities, for 2050, in Switzerland. ...
2017Towards a sustainable renewal of peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses in Switzerland
Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles
Resulting from the society shift of the post-war period, urban growth and urban sprawl of infrastructure and settlements of individual housing are today at the centre of public policies’ focus, in particular due to their widely criticized environmental imp ...
2017Urban Development Processes: Methodological Investigation into the Complexity and Dynamics of Post-socialist Cities
The overall objective of this thesis is to critically address, break down and reassemble the urban development process in post-socialist cities through a set of analyses that covers urban planning strategies, real-estate interventions, participatory and ur ...
EPFL2017Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil
According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more exte ...
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