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Commoning the touristic city. Urban pedestrian routes and the ambiguous politics of exploration
This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two to ...
Routledge2023Pedestrian typologies - a sociological look on urban walkways
Vincent Kaufmann, Renate Albrecher
Representations of the pedestrian as a sole and healthy individual do not correspond to the reality and diversity of walking practices. The majority of urban pedestrians has to deal with constraints to their degrees of freedom in walking. We propose a typo ...
2022Housing Urban Masses Around a Green Yard. Typological comparison of modern examples in Copenhagen and Stockholm
Since the aftermath of the II world-war till recent years, Nordic countries have looked as inspiring social and architectural models to the rest of Europe. Nevertheless, very few attentions have been addressed towards the first bases of their developments, ...
2020Street grids for efficient district cooling systems in high-density cities
Shanshan Hsieh, Arno Schlueter
The feasibility of district cooling systems is linked to their efficiency, which is associated with their capital and operational costs. For reasons of ownership and maintenance, the piping network commonly follows the city's street layout. This paper exam ...
ELSEVIER2020Beyond Classical Resonances. Stockholm Mass-Housing Experiments Before the 1930
The goal of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition was to illustrate a national project around dwellings and household goods for the Swedish mass. Indeed, in the manifesto acceptera, the organisers masterminded by Gregor Paulsson, investigated the cultural situatio ...
2018WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER? Stockholm – Vienna’s large courtyard blocks
Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto
The purpose of this paper is to look back on some valuable accomplishments at the beginning of the 20th century, built in Stockholm (1916-1930) and Vienna (1919-1933). Far from a mere process of revising history, those first dwelling attempts demonstrate h ...
2017Housing and Contemporaneity: Recent Renovations in Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina
The Plan of 1758 for the reconstruction of Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina followed principles of unparalleled efficiency and regularity. The grid of rectangular urban blocks with pre-designed street façades had a lasting impact on urban identity. Today, the orig ...
2016Dynamics of heterogeneity in urban networks: aggregated traffic modeling and hierarchical control
Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Jack Haddad
Real traffic data and simulation analysis reveal that for some urban networks a well-defined Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) exists, which provides a unimodal and low-scatter relationship between the network vehicle density and outflow. Recent studie ...
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