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Pour en finir avec la vitesse: plaidoyer pour la vie en proximité

Un panorama des questions relatives à la transformation des mobilités, des crises sociales qu'elle soulève, avec notamment le mouvement des gilets jaunes et l'immobilisation forcée due à la pandémie de Covid-19, jusqu'à ses effets négatifs (fatigue, inégal ...

Editions de l'Aube, collection poche Mikros2023

Big company, Small town. Spatial and Social Capital in a Persistent Company Town.

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Something that is not much discussed when talking about Dalmine is the impact of its production as a supply chain sustaining extractive operations that also serve as a dominance and land exploitation mechanism. For instance, Dalmine supplied various oil an ...

2023

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

Phi Nguyen Yen

This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...

EPFL2023

From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

Self-help housing / autoconstruction

Sila Karatas

This is a historical inquiry on self-help housing, or autoconstruction as its French equivalent, a term mainly overlooked by architects but favoured by policymakers for low-cost housing development. Self-help housing has been a field of ‘aid’ or ‘assistanc ...

2021

STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside

Denise Bertschi

Under the title "State Fiction" (2014–2021) the artist's long-term research focusses on the zone that divides the two Koreas, a locus of congealed international Cold War interests and a source of improbable images. After an internationally brokered armisti ...

self-published2021

The shaping effects of innovation and technology: from micro business model evolution to macro environment sustainability

Qinli Lu

Innovation is a prerequisite guarantee for the development of a country in this new era. It is an important driver not just for corporate growth but also for national social and economic transformation. Considering the strategic supporting role of innovati ...

EPFL2020

From technocrats to laymen: Community planning and self-help housing for workers in Marshall Plan countries

Sila Karatas

With the introduction of the Marshall Plan to Europe after the Second World War, architectural practice for workers’ housing faced a paradigmatic shift by means of procedural approaches and spatial strategies as well as roles of planner, architect and comm ...

2020

Sources of knowledge flow between developed and developing nations

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This article provides a long-term view on the sources of knowledge flow between developed and developing nations. It relies on patent data to explore three potential sources: R&D collaboration, technology sourcing, and technology transfer. All three source ...

2020

On the Design of a Youth-Led, Issue-Based, Crowdsourced Global Monitoring Framework for the SDGs

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Rajiv Ramaswamy

In this paper, we propose a novel methodology and design to contribute towards the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by member states of the United Nations for a better and more sustainable future for all. We particularly f ...

2019

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