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SWICE Working Paper on DLS Mobility

What is the minimum final energy needed to ensure wellbeing for all in Switzerland? What level, type, organization, and approach of mobility could be a basis for such wellbeing? In this paper, we make a methodology contribution to DLS by developing an acti ...

SWEET SWICE2024

Technology and Planning: The Invalides Train Station Project in Paris (1889-1902)

Arthur Grégoire Jacques Emile

Designed by Just Lisch for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the Invalides train station gave the French western railway company a more central terminus in Paris, right next to the exhibition pavilions and the river Seine. From 1893 onwards, the project was ...

2024

Biodiversity: Economics v Financials

Sascha Nick

Allowing companies to damage ecosystems and pay for restoration is unsuitable as a governance mechanism in the current biodiversity crisis, and is highly unlikely to restore genetic and functional biosphere integrity, At the same time, restoring previously ...

2024

Planning urban proximities: An empirical analysis of how residential preferences conflict with the urban morphologies and residential practices

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

Urban proximity planning is foreseen as a solution to foster a “sustainable” city, including economic viability, environmental soundness and social inclusivity. This paper focuses on the inclusivity aspects by questioning the adoption of urban proximities: ...

2024

Assessing the importance of nitric acid and ammonia for particle growth in the polluted boundary layer

Andrea Baccarini, Imad El Haddad, Lubna Dada, Houssni Lamkaddam

Aerosols formed and grown by gas-to-particle processes are a major contributor to smog and haze in megacities, despite the competition between growth and loss rates. Rapid growth rates from ammonium nitrate formation have the potential to sustain particle ...

2024

Using automated design appraisal to model building-specific devaluation risk due to land-use change

Adam Robert Swietek

Uncertainty of spillover effects – including property devaluation - from proposed land-use change elicits opposition to local development. This hinders cities’ ability to implement land-use policy aimed at housing affordability and environmental sustainabi ...

2024

Carbon flows at neighborhood scale Case study in Geneva, Switzerland

Sophie Lufkin, Ulrich Joseph Jacques Liman

In a context of political commitment targeting net zero in 2050, controlling carbon flows is an essential operational imperative. The LOCUS methodology (Low carbon urban strategy) makes it possible to establish an exhaustive vision of carbon flows at neigh ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Urban boundary-layer flows in complex terrain: Dynamic interactions during a hot and dry summer season in Phoenix, Arizona

Aldo Brandi

Anthropogenic modification of natural landscapes to urban environments impacts land-atmosphere interactions in the boundary layer. Ample research has demonstrated the effect of such landscape transitions on development of the urban heat island (UHI), but c ...

Wiley2024

Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: from Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation

Adam Robert Swietek

Zoning reform is a crucial tool for cities to adapt to contemporary challenges. However, its implementation remains challenging. Property owners, with a vested interest in the value of their neighborhoods, are sensitive to local developments and the potent ...

EPFL2024

Quartiers rhodaniens en transition

Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Over the course of history, the relationship between cities and their waters has shown different gradients of interweaving, marked by cycles of bonding and distancing. Following a period of complete neglect of urban watercourses, the versatile, multifacete ...

EPFL2024

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