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Place identity

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Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place

Maxime Carl Felder

Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and what we only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as a dynamic relat ...

2021

Architecture in the Data-driven City

Frederick Peter Ortner

In the last ten years, new sources of urban big data have made it possible for algorithms to increasingly control how the city is perceived, understood and managed by its inhabitants; this is the data-driven city. New efforts in the social sciences, like ...

EPFL2019

L'urbanisme de l'entre-deux : des pratiques de mobilité aux prises urbanistiques

Jade Rudler

The democratization of vehicles has often reduced the public space to a place of circulation. For the last fifteen years, the habits of mobility have evolved: a system centered around the automobile leaves room for compositions between different modes of d ...

EPFL2018

Dépasser les bornes : mise en oeuvre de projets d'urbanisation supracommunaux dans les agglomérations urbaines

Marc Antoine Messer

Urban areas across Europe are constantly expanding under the pressure of demographics and of ever-increasing mobility. Meanwhile, the institutional boundaries of the various communities that make up these urban areas remain remarkably stable. The resulting ...

EPFL2017

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

Loud and Trendy: Crowdsourcing Impressions of Social Ambiance in Popular Indoor Urban Places

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

New research cutting across architecture, urban studies, and psychology is contextualizing the understanding of urban spaces according to the perceptions of their inhabitants. One fundamental construct that relates place and experience is ambiance, which i ...

ACM2015

Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique : étude de cas à Douala et à Kigali

Benjamin Michelon

Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

EPFL2012

Étapes marquantes du développement urbain de la Chaux-de-Fonds : les contributions de Moïse Perret-Gentil, de Charles-Henri Junod et de Charles-Frédéric Knab

The city planning of La Chaux-de-Fonds, they way we know it today, is the result of a long evolution. It starts the day after a fire which, in 1794, practically devastated the whole village. With the human and material loss which the fire caused, this disa ...

EPFL2011

"Pékin n'a plus rien à envier aux villes européennes": Descriptions du monde en mouvement, vu de Pékin

Béatrice Ferrari

By examining some of the architectural forms and urban practices that contribute to the worlding of Beijing, this paper suggests ways of understanding how “immobile” actors participate in the creation and circulation of flows. While emphasizing the active ...

2010