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Is planning still political? The politicization of high-speed rail in Spain (1986–2016)

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Planning the heterogeneous city: an analysis of the controversies on Mumbai’s Development Plan 2014 – 2034 in the making

The currently on-going revision of Mumbai’s development (MDP) plan is accompanied by heated controversies over a common urban future. After publication of the draft for public consultation in February 2015 an unprecedented public outcry and strong criticis ...

2016

Aesthetics and Urbanity

Mirza Tursic

If we study the evolution of the urban space in Switzerland we must notice the high importance assigned by different urban actors to aesthetic questions. In a sense, the subjective realm of the aesthetic has proved to be able to generate conditions that le ...

2016

Building Marshall Plan in Turkey: The formation of workers' housing question, 1946-1962

Sila Karatas

This thesis aims to analyze the formation of workers’ housing question at manpower, topographical, morphological and habitual scales with regard to the ideological, political, economical, cultural and institutional programming of Americanization in Turkey ...

Middle East Technical University2015

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

Metropolitan dynamics and institutional fragmentation in the United States, 1950-2010

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

Since 1950, the United States have witnessed a change in their urban dynamics: the advent of the metropolis. Before, the border was clear between big industrial cities, and small rural communities. At the end of the 19th century, large urban centers starte ...

2014

Urban street networks, a comparative analysis of ten European cities

Emanuele Strano, Alessio Vincenzo Cardillo

We compare the structural properties of the street networks of ten different European cities using their primal representation. We investigate the properties of the geometry of the networks and a set of centrality measures highlighting differences and simi ...

Pion Ltd2013

Radical urban movements and the participatory city

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

This paper is based on an interdisciplinary study – mixing sociology, anthropology, urban planning and architecture - of 40 years of urban struggles in a small neighborhood of Geneva called Les Grottes. In the 70’s, Les Grottes was the place of birth of Ge ...

2013

Urban acceptability of building integrated solar systems: LESO-QSV approach

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

The concern for sustainable development issues together with the new EU promotion policies are finally leading to a widespread use of Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal systems in buildings. This upcoming reality is opening a new debate on the urban/architectu ...

Universität Kassel2011

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

Méthodologie de gestion durable des ressources du sous-sol urbain

Pascal Blunier

The world is becoming more and more urban. During the last fifty years, the population in Swiss cities has grown from 45% to 70% of the total population. This change is characterised by urban sprawl and by an increase in the consumption of resources, parti ...

EPFL2009