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Making the city: re-assembling spaces of manufacturing

Florence Graezer Bideau, Marc Laperrouza, Monique Stéphanie Bolli, Clément Luc Guillaume Renaud

This introductory paper questions how urban places emerging from the maker movement are re-assembling spatial settings in cities, with the example of the Shenzhen/Hong-Kong area. We discuss how the growing importance of assemblage in manufacturing processe ...

2017

Decoding urban development dynamics through actor-network methodological approach

Jean-Claude Bolay, Marija Cvetinovic

Due to growing social and physical transformations, contemporary cities reveal the profound necessity of proper scientific approaches that are adjusted to conditions of global complexity and dynamic patterns of development. Predominance of an overall marke ...

2017

Computational Analysis of Urban Places Using Mobile Crowdsensing

Darshan Santani

In cities, urban places provide a socio-cultural habitat for people to counterbalance the daily grind of urban life, an environment away from home and work. Places provide an environment for people to communicate, share perspectives, and in the process for ...

EPFL2016

Advancing Analytical Tools to Understand Urban Planning: Mapping Controversies around the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Christine Lutringer-Gully

The proposed article suggests that urban studies are in need of new tools to describe and analyze the different “regimes of urbanization” in an increasingly heterogeneous urban world. In order to create dynamic and relational descriptions of contemporary c ...

2016

Assemblage form

Trevor Patt

The thesis proposes a projective theory for contemporary urbanism that equates the active processes of the city and a new orientation for procedural urban design within a single line of thought that delineates the concept of a generic organizationâone th ...

EPFL2016

Potentialities of the urban volume

Michael Robert Doyle

This dissertation looks at the urban volume, in its natural and artificial materiality, as a source of potential for future urbanization. Underground resourcesâfor buildable space, geomaterials, groundwater and geothermal energyâtend to be addressed on ...

EPFL2016

Boundaries and urban worlds: the contested ethnoscape of expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

Numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themselves remain insufficient. Based on ethnographic work within the United Nations office in Geneva, thi ...

2016

Urbanity and Construction of the City

Alessandro Porotto

Urbanity is a real quality of an urban place. This concept means that the urbanity is inextricably related to the architecture of a place, the architecture of the city. The presence of the built environment is the first essential condition for the developm ...

2015

The Role of Ocean Space in Contemporary Urbanization

Nancy Raewyn Couling

Although the ocean is investigated by many scientific fields, research about ocean space is scarce. But energy production, extraction of resources, infrastructural and logistical development is increasing incrementally, resulting in a quantum shift in scal ...

EPFL2015

Concevoir à grande échelle

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

Large-scale design - Mobility interface models and urban transformation strategies This research project is based on the hypothesis that the urban transformations generated by mobility interfaces constitute a key component of successful sustainable urban ...

EPFL2015