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Peri-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 ...

2018

Peri-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 ...

2018

Digitalizing the urban landscape. Microclimate, energy systems and comfort

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

Urban Green Infrastructures (UGI) play a major role in mitigating the urban climatic conditions, as well as improving people’s health and wellbeing. Indeed, nature has a positive impact both on the pedestrian thermal and psychological perception, increasin ...

2018

Conférence Fiona Pià à "Ecovillages"

Fiona Pia

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences intitulé : " Smart villages, Quelle économie durable pour les villages? " ...

2017

Towards 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 ...

2017

The Big Building

Marta Meira Brandão

Large hybrid objects integrating multiple functions and whose scale, over 100'000 m2, is halfway between the fragment of a city and that of a large-scale building: these are the key features of the complex projects that are triggering new debates on the su ...

EPFL2017

Digital Technologies for Inclusive Urban Planning

Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Rapid urbanization, climate change, resource depletion, the wish for a more sustainable development and the widespread use of the Internet and mobile phones all represent a great challenge for urban planning. While the smart city model is seen as a means t ...

New Zealand Academy of Applied Research Ltd2017

Microcity, an Innovative Building Integrating Sustainability Issues from Urban Design to Constructive Detail

The Microcity building, which houses the new branch of the EPFL in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), is the result of a synergy-generating strategy based on partnerships, experimentation with innovative processes and the continuous integration of sustainability-rel ...

2017

Periurbanization and the Transformation of the Urban Mortality Gradient in Switzerland

Mathias Lerch

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 ...

2017

Modelling Urban Transitions: A Social Practice Theoretic Approach to the Urban Metabolism

Franziska Meinherz

Urban growth and the increase of the human environmental imprint has led to a growing interest in urban sustainability, a field mainly addressed by urban ecology and urban metabolism studies. The realisation that the urban material and energy flows are mai ...

2017

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