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Informal settlements pose great challenges to urban planners, as very often the data available on those locations is insufficient to inform planning decisions. For instance, demographic estimates are often approximate at best, what makes it difficult to di ...

2019

Mobile Urban Micrometeorological Monitoring (MUMiM)

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Laurent Deschamps, Pierre Loesch, Paul Becquelin

To understand the urban environment from a meteorological perspective in order to design better and more sustainable neighbourhoods, an open-source and low-cost meteorological device was developed and tested at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...

2019

Optimizing neighborhood-scale walkability

Andrew James Sonta

Many designers and researchers have grappled with the problem of optimally locating buildings and use types in a neighborhood-scale development. But little work has used data-driven optimization to aid in creating urban design schemes. The paradigm of sing ...

2019

Singularité des slums: Production de l'espace dans la ville indienne

Contemporary urbanism, as a science and ideology, sometimes induces a violence of urbanization that is exercised through formal planning on informal settlements. The latter are marginalized through processes of (in)visibility that exclude them from the cit ...

EPFL2019

Transport à câble aérien en milieu urbain: pertinence et pratique

Fernando Anisio De Oliveira Simas

The intense urbanization of cities has left few options when it comes to insert large mobility infrastructure they need to move their inhabitants. A surface rail network, a dedicated roadway bus line or any other mobility infrastructure such as a tramway a ...

EPFL2019

La fragmentation de l’espace urbain postsocialiste en Albanie

Alain Nicolas Jarne

After 30 years of controlled and decentralized urban development, the Albanian urban space has gone through a brutal transition. At the fall of the regime in 1991, the network of small and medium-sized cities set up during communism initially survived, at ...

2019

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Valeria Superti

Currently our world is becoming increasingly urban, with around 50% of its population living in cities. Whereas cities produce 80% of the worldwide GDP and are places with high innovation, they also consume 75% of worldwide resources and produce 80% of CO2 ...

2019

Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l'horizon 2050

Judith Elisa Drouilles

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 ...

EPFL2019

A Multi-Tiered Defense Model for the Security Analysis of Critical Facilities in Smart Cities

The design and development of future smart city services will usher with unprecedented creativity, a plethora of functionalities and conveniences to the urban communities. The success of smart city services depends on the assurance that security is maintai ...

2019

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