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Green Density. Interdisciplinary education and research project for the design of sustainable neighborhoods

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Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

André Gabriel Kostro, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

In this paper we discuss progress that has been made in modelling of urban resource flows to support urban designers to optimise the sustainability of their design and planning proposals, In particular we consider models of urban energy demand and more gen ...

BRENET2008

Forum Out of what? Locating the underpinnings of theory

Paolo Tombesi

The Building Research & Information special issue ‘Developing Theories of the Built Environment’ (volume 36(3), 2008) explores the epistemology that underpins the creation of theory. It broadens the perspectives that typically escape the cone of vision of ...

2008

Urbanisation, City Design and tue Urban Model in West Africa

Jérôme Chenal

Linkage between the urbanisation process, urban models, social practices, mutations of the public space, and management and planning approaches of cities in the South was studied. Critical understanding of traditional urban instruments and ways to create i ...

2008

Inland Empire: réconciliation autour du Douro (Porto, P)

Maxime Duvoisin

The cities of Porto and Gaia have grown exponentially towards the seaside, but mainly to the inland. The river Douro, being the sheer existence of the two cities, has been left to an absolute state of lethe. The Douro River has become an amorphous element, ...

2008

Working with extreme urban density: Hong Kong. A prototype of mixed-use building in Hong Kong

Joana Varela, Wing-Chung Cheung

Urban sprawl, a solution to house fast-growing metropolitan populations, dilutes the substance of cities and generates extensive uniformly built fabrics lacking structural poles of attraction. Hong Kong is one of the seldom exceptions of this general tende ...

2008

e-Participation for Urban Development Projects

Marianne Tremblay

This thesis is concerned with the practical results of the use of electronic tools as a means of gathering public input for urban development projects. Of particular interest was the capacity of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve ...

2008

City Profile Nouakchott

Vincent Kaufmann, Jérôme Chenal

Created ex nihilo prior to independence (1958), Nouakchott is both a city of uncontrolled urban growth (especially given the combined influence of the end of nomadic life and the great draughts) and the seat of all trappings of power, designed to symbolise ...

2008

Towards an evolutionary model of city sustainability

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Adil Rasheed, Nataliya Filchakova

In part stimulated by the computer game industry, reasonable progress has been made in the dynamic modelling of urban growth and land use change. However, sustainability considerations in this work remain to be addressed. Yet the environmental impact of ci ...

2007

Innovations in decision-making processes in sustainable urban projects: a comparative analysis in Argentina, Cuba and Thailand

The goal of our presentation it to contribute to gain a better understanding of the strengths and limitations of emerging “innovative” approaches to urban planning aiming at integrating the three relevant EES aspects of sustainable development. Analysis is ...

2007

Havana Lessons

Harry Gugger

This book outlines the urban and architectural analysis and synthesis work undertaken by the lapa and thier students as a collaboration betweden the EPFL and the Technical Univeristy of Havana (CUJAE) and the Center for Urban Studies of Havana (CEU-H). The ...

Laboratoire de la Production d'Architecture2007