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Company Town : To Provide and to Separate. An Open Letter to Giorgio Agamben [by] Vittorio Gregotti

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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

Energy Planning in the Urban Context: Challenges and Perspectives

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot

Cities are responsible for roughly two-thirds of global primary energy consumption, and are therefore expected to play an essential role in reaching European climate change targets. Innovative urban planning methods are in particular needed to benefit from ...

2015

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

Suburban Dystopia And Shopping As A Soap Opera

Selena Savic, Gordan Savicic

With an approach between theatre, urban analysis, mapping and deconstruction, this 'glide' through Brasilia is an attempt to understand its urban tissue, formed through architectural action and spontaneous appropriation. In the city laid out between a mode ...

2012

Le vide

Stephanie Bender

Today the question of how to work in the continuous contemporary urban landscape, is a big concern for urban development professionals. Still marked by the modern obsession to define the building forms, a vision influenced by the functionalist movement of ...

EPFL2011

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

Slum Upgrading in developing countries

Jean-Claude Bolay

The slum question is at the very heart to urban planning and social development. The urban growth takes place primarily in developing countries. Around one billion of people (with a perspective of 2 billion in 2030), the third of the world’s total urban po ...

2011

CITYSIM: Comprehensive Micro-Simulation of Resource Flows for Sustainable Urban Planning

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi, Diane Perez, Adil Rasheed, Urs Wilke, Philippe Leroux

In this paper we describe new software “CitySim” that has been conceived to support the more sustainable planning of urban settlements. This first version focuses on simulating buildings’ energy flows, but work is also under way to model energy embodied in ...

2009

Urbanisation, planification urbaine et modèles de ville en Afrique de l'Ouest

Jérôme Chenal

Background Phenomena like rapid growth, unmanageable cities, an urban space in crisis, and the disproportionate expansion of capital cities have rendered instruments traditionally associated with planned urbanism ill-suited for city planning today. Traditi ...

EPFL2009

How Does Urban Public Transport Change Cities? Correlations between Past and Present Transport and Urban Planning Policies

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Christophe Jemelin, Géraldine Pflieger

Is it possible to discern correlations between past and present urban policies? Do path dependencies exist at the urban level? If so, how do they differ from other links between the past and present? A preview of the literature dealing with dependencies an ...

2009