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What Future for the Urban Underground? Subsurface and Surface Potential in San Antonio, Texas

The Deep City project at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne has, for the past several years, been developing a method to identify and qualify the urban areas where underground development is high, particularly for human activities. The fourth dis ...

2014

Urban Morphology and Energy Consumption: Simplified Tools for the Estimation of Energy Needs and Solar Income at the Urban and District level

François Golay, Claudio Magalhaes Carneiro, Gilles Desthieux

Urban form matters in assessing the energy consumption of buildings. This chapter introduces three useful tools to assess the environmental impact of the urban form and to define possible energy scenarios. These outcomes can be used to inform the redevelop ...

IGI Global2014

What Future for the Urban Underground? Subsurface and Surface Potential in San Antonio, Texas

Michael Robert Doyle

Underground space provides an opportunity to increase city compactness and pedestrian accessibility through the overlapping of activities in urban areas. The potential for development is not homogeneous throughout an urban area but depends on variations in ...

2014

Exploring the Volumetric City. A Methodology for Investigating the Topology and Morphology of Surface and Subsurface Urban Spatial Networks

Michael Robert Doyle

The urban underground has historically been developed as a series of sporadic responses to surface land shortage or to hide unsightly urban activities (Parriaux et al 2004; 2010). The Deep City project at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Swi ...

2014

Street networks in relation to landforms: Implications for fast-growing cities

Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

In addition to socio-economic factors, major landforms may affect the city structure and urban form. Here we show that landforms have significant effects on the city shape and street patterns of the fast-growing Iranian cities of Dezful (a river) and Khorr ...

Science Press2014

Estimated reduction of energy consumption related to mobility in urban renewal projects

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The urban sprawl that characterizes most European cities relies highly on the use of private motor vehicle. As a result, there is a prominent increase in the energy consumption of the built environment. Therefore, the densification of existing urban areas ...

2013

Designing complexity, The relationship between obsolescence systems and densification strategies for large-scale intermodal hubs in contemporary European cities

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

The metropolis can be analysed as an infrastructure in perpetual motion, composed of built elements – the system “hardware” – and social networks – the system “software”. The emergence of an overall city-scale infrastructure composed not of a single unit b ...

LIAT / ENSA Paris Malaquais2013

Design in the desert. A bioclimatic project with urban energy modelling

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

The increase of the world's population leads to an urgent need of radical measures to diminish the energy footprint of humanity. This study considers the realisation of an optimal Masterplan in energy terms for the new EPFL Research Centre in Ras A1 Khaima ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2013

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

Towards the Layered City: Redefining the Role of Underground Resources in Future Urbanization

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piecemeal rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. There is a growing awareness by urban planners and engineers that the underground contains not only potential usable space, b ...

2013

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