Concept

Zonage (urbanisme)

Publications associées (27)

Interactive optimization for supporting multicriteria decisions in urban and energy system planning

Climate change and growing urban populations are increasingly putting pressure on cities to reduce their carbon emissions and transition towards efficient and renewable energy systems. This challenges in particular urban planners, who are expected to integ ...

EPFL2018

Calculating spatial urban sprawl indices using open data

Martí Bosch Padrós

Urban sprawl has been related to numerous negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Meanwhile, urban areas have been growing at alarming rates, urging for assessing sprawl towards sustainable development. However, sprawl is an elusive term and diff ...

2017

An Action Research Inquiry into Professional Training and Development for Addressing Complex Urban Problems

Mohamad Razaghi

The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Municipal, metropolitan, regional and national governments, companies, international organizations, financiers, technology developers and civil society across the globe are faced with increasingly complex probl ...

EPFL2016

Urban fabrique. Une intervention vernaculaire

Kevin Demierre, Thomas Domenger

Le projet se développe au coeur d'un îlot bâti du quartier particulièrement dense des Eaux-Vives à Genève. Il considère la réhabilitation d'une infrastructure sise sur la parcelle d'un même propriétaire, rassemblant un parking souterrain, une portion de la ...

2015

Growth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing

Jeffrey Huang

The unprecedented speed of urbanization in Asia calls for a fundamental rethinking of urbanism. Conventional master plans typically propose a single static ‘end’ condition derived from top-down visions, often incapable of responding to site-specific microc ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2015

How green are British cities? Scaling relations and CO2 emissions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

How green or environmentally friendly urban areas are in comparison with rural areas is a topic that has received much attention in recent years. This is understandable because urban areas already emit around 70% of the global greenhouse gases. This percen ...

2015

New Cadanav methodology for quantitative rock fall hazard assessment and zoning at the local scale

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Rock fall hazard zoning is a challenging yet necessary task to be accomplished for planning an appropriate land use in mountainous areas. Methodologies currently adopted for elaborating zoning maps do not provide satisfactory results though, due to uncerta ...

Springer Verlag2014

Rockfall Hazard Zoning for Land Use Planning

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Although rock instabilities constitute a threat to human lives and settlements all over the world, methodologies for assessing and zoning rockfall hazards for urban development planning are far from being standardised. After presentation of the general bac ...

2014

An Integrated Planning Concept for the Emerging Underground Urbanism: Deep City Method Part 1 Concept, process and application

Philippe Thalmann, Aurèle Parriaux, Huanqing Li

Four underground resources have been seen as having a long-term potential to support sustainable urban development: underground space, groundwater, geomaterials and geothermal energy. Utilization of these resources proposes a new paradigm of economic devel ...

Elsevier2013

Highly Skilled Expatriates' Networks in the Cosmopolitan City: Constructing Post-migration Patterns of Belonging in Geneva (forthcoming)

Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

Within the field of migration studies, the construction of transnational networks and multilocal belongings has been widely described (Beck 2000, Glick-Schiller et al. 1995). However, much of this literature focuses on the construction of networks based on ...

2012

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