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Studies on urban environmental quality are evolving emphasizing the need for policy response concerning the enactment of environmental regulations to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs), mainly target 13. Over the years, the concerns to improve urb ...

Whilst urbanisation reached an unprecedented dimension, in a not so distant future half of the urban population will live in 'informal' settlements. Often subsumed under the pejorative term slum, these habitats account for the majority of the future urban ...

Because of the global warming, urban planning strategies must be investigated to reduce the building energy consumption and increase the thermal comfort in cities. In the framework of Energy Strategy 2050 of Switzerland, this research aim to highlight the ...

In Switzerland as in most European countries, the last decades of urban development have put much pressure on the environment due to uncontrolled urban sprawl. The existing peripheral residential built-up areas mostly composed of single-family houses are r ...

This work describes SenseCityVity, an approach to engage and support youth in a city in Mexico as they investigate, document, and reflect upon urban problems through mobile crowdsourcing. SenseCityVity focused on the development of a mobile crowdsourcing p ...

This thesis aims to examine the causal mechanisms of living environments on leisure mobilities and verify whether their inclusion is actually able to challenge the compact city as a sustainable urban form. The research focuses on the Swiss case and in part ...

With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions in the planet. Its urban areas are characterized by rapid transformations that entail urban sprawl and the subsequent environmental impacts, social segregation ...

This paper aims to provide an insight into the urban governance of four medium-sized Haitian cities hit by the earthquake of 2010, bearing in mind two affirmations of J. Pierre on urban governance; namely, that it is the better analytical model for the con ...

The total population of the United Kingdom is expected to increase from 63 million in 2011 to 73 million people in 2037. This is an increase by 16% in 26 years, which puts the urban infrastructure, particularly the transportation infrastructure, under grea ...

The Praille-Acacias-Vernets suburb, located in Geneva, Switzerland, is today considered as an outworn city area (2.3 km(2)). It consists of parking lots, industries, businesses and marshalling yards. The Geneva Government decided to remodel this suburb to ...

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Determinants of urban environmental quality in Morocco: The roles of energy consumption, urbanization, manufacturing, and financial development in SDG 13

Incremental Urbanism: A study of incremental housing production and the challenge of its inclusion in contemporary planning processes in Mumbai, India

Modeling the effects of future urban planning scenarios on the Urban Heat Island in a complex region

Peri-urban residential neighborhoods at the margins current trends in urban growth: towards sustainable transition paths?

SenseCityVity: Mobile Crowdsourcing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action in Mexico

Cadres de vie, modes de vie et mobilités de loisirs : les vertus de la ville compacte remises en cause?

Sustainability assessment of an urban neighborhood revitalization project in Bogotá by transposition of European indicator systems to the Colombian context

Urban governance in earthquake struck medium-sized Haitian cities

Analysing and modelling the growth and efficiency of urban transportation infrastructures

A new energy and natural resources investigation method: Geneva case studies