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Roundabouts and City Limits: The Agency of Visual Phenomena

This contribution proposal is based on a photographic campaign I have conducted over the last years on the borders of the Paris metropolitan and more specifically on the science campus located on the agricultural plateau of Saclay. It is supplemented with ...

2015

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

EPFL2015

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

Transport mode choice in alpine resorts in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

Mountain regions are under-represented in transport research, which tends to concentrate on urban areas. This study investigates transport mode choice in 22 locations in the Alps, using data from the 2010 Swiss transport micro-survey (hereafter: MRMT2010) ...

2015

Sustainability assessment of an urban neighborhood revitalization project in Bogotá by transposition of European indicator systems to the Colombian context

Sophie Lufkin

With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions in the planet. Its urban areas are characterized by rapid transformations that entail urban sprawl and the subsequent environmental impacts, social segregation ...

2015

Rethinking Urban Space in a World Without Cars

Matthew Skjonsberg, Farzaneh Bahrami

The Confluence Collective in partnership with the Municipal Library of Lyon organizes moments of discussion and debate where young researchers present, confront and criticize their work in social sciences, humanities and arts. The reduction in individual m ...

2015

Aesthetics and Spatial Practices. The Example of Switzerland

Mirza Tursic

The main assumption underlying this article is that aesthetic categories and spatial practices are intrinsically connected. I argue that aesthetic experience and aesthetic judgment assume an importance for their high potential to elicit emotions and activa ...

2015

Evapotranspiration model to evaluate the cooling potential in urban areas - A case study in Switzerland

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Govinda Upadhyay

An evapotranspiration model, based on the FAO Penman-Monteith method, taking into account the surface temperature, has been developed and implemented in the ground temperature model of the CitySim software. A case study was conducted in a district of Genev ...

2015

Translating the City: Interdisciplinarity in urban studies

Yves Pedrazzini, Stéphanie Vincent, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy, Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urb ...

EPFL Press / Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group2015

Cadres de vie, modes de vie et mobilités de loisirs

Sébastien Munafò

This thesis aims to examine the causal mechanisms of living environments on leisure mobilities and verify whether their inclusion is actually able to challenge the compact city as a sustainable urban form. The research focuses on the Swiss case and in part ...

EPFL2015

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