Publications related to Influence de la texture périurbaine sur la durabilité d’un quartier

Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

David Michael Volpe Ruggiero, Paola Costanza Miglietta

This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...

2024

The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review

Jeffrey Huang, Simon Elias Bibri

The dynamic landscape of sustainable smart cities is witnessing a signi ficant transformation due to the integration of emerging computational technologies and innovative models. These advancements are reshaping data -driven planning strategies, practices, ...

Elsevier2024

Urban sustainability assessment through spatial lenses: turning the spotlight on the local neighbourhood unit

Melissa Pang

With global environmental change and quality of life issues at the forefront of international discussions today, urban development strategies and policies are often framed around various sustainability or liveability goals. Regardless of the sustainability ...

EPFL2023

Conceptual frameworks in indicator‐based assessments of urban sustainability—An analysis based on 67 initiatives

Albert Merino, Pekka Jaakko Halla

Urban sustainability is today commonly considered to be a crucial determinant of global sustainable development, and indicator-based assessments represent a popular means of operationalizing this complex concept. An important aspect of these assessments co ...

2022

Unraveling how the concept of circularity relates to sustainability: An indicator-based meta-analysis applied at the urban scale

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Valeria Superti, Albert Merino

Cities account for 75% of resource consumption and 80% of CO2 emissions. With rising urbanization, achieving urban sustainability becomes crucial. The Circular Economy (CE) concept has been proposed to reduce resource consumption, although its link to sust ...

2021

Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Emanuele Massaro

Our world is becoming more and more urban. Already, about 50% of the population lives in cities posing new challenges for sustainable development. What does sustainability mean in the context of living in a city? This book provides guidelines for sustainab ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Nouvelles polarités suburbaines : comment comparer des visions projectuelles sous l'angle de leur profil de durabilité ?

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

La dimension holistique inhérente au concept de durabilité a induit des transformations radicales dans les pratiques architecturales et urbanistiques. La complexité croissante qui en découle entraîne la nécessité, pour les professionnels de l'espace, de di ...

2019

Monitoring Tool for Urban Brownfield Regeneration Projects Interaction with Stakeholders

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Urban brownfield regeneration projects are complex operations that are not automatically sustainable. To facilitate the integration of sustainability issues in these projects, a recent research project led to the creation of an operational monitoring tool ...

2018

An operational monitoring tool facilitating the transformation of urban brownfields into sustainable neighborhoods

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The regeneration of urban brownfields is a relevant strategy to limit the sprawling of post-industrial European cities. However, the integration of sustainability issues in urban brownfield regeneration projects is not a spontaneous process, remaining in m ...

2018

Digital tools and citizen participation: Towards sustainable and responsive urban planning

Jérôme Chenal, Marc Soutter, Stéphanie Aline Hasler

The smart city concept has existed for decades now. It was presented as a response to help cities cope with challenges they were facing such as rapid urbanization, climate change, resource depletion, and sustainability. Based mainly on sensors, flow optimi ...

2017

Neighbourhood-scale Evaluation to Benchmark the Integration of Urban Sustainability (NEBIUS). An innovative education and research methodology

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

The holistic nature of sustainability has radically transformed architectural and urban design practices. On the one hand, it enforces the need for simple, efficient, graphical assessment tools to support communication among the stakeholders. On the other ...

2017

Méthodologie multicritère d'aide à la décision pour le renouvellement urbain à l'échelle du quartier

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The present work develops a new methodology for assessing urban renewal scenarios at the neighborhood scale. Entitled URBIUS, this methodology seeks to meet the needs of municipalities in terms of planning for the development of their urban built fabric. I ...

EPFL2016

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

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

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 ...

2015

URBIUS : a method for assessing the sustainability of urban renewal strategies at neighborhood scale

Emmanuel Rey, Maria Gracia Riera Perez

This paper presents the URBIUS method, developed to assess the sustainability of urban renewal strategies at neighbourhood scale. The conceptual framework of URBIUS gathers the main issues of urban sustainability, including social, economic and environment ...

2015

Integration of Sustainability Issues into the Regeneration of Urban Wasteland: From Theoretical Framework to Operational Monitoring Tool

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Regeneration of urban wastelands can contribute to revitalize and densify some portions of post-industrial European cities. A growing number of urban wasteland regenerations is now promoted by diverse territorial measures. However, it must be recognized th ...

2014

Transplantation of subalpine wood-pasture turfs along a natural climatic gradient reveals lower resistance of unwooded pastures to climate change compared to wooded ones

Alexandre Buttler, Thomas Spiegelberger, Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov

Climate change could impact strongly on cold-adapted mountain ecosystems, but little is known about its interaction with traditional land-use practices. We used an altitudinal gradient to simulate a year-round warmer and drier climate for semi-natural suba ...

Springer2014

Sustainable Land-use Practices in European Mountain Regions under Global Change: an Integrated Research Approach

Alexandre Buttler

This Special Feature on sustainable land-use practices in European mountain regions presents results from the inter- and transdisciplinary research project MOUNTLAND. The goal was to investigate the sensitivity of the provision of ecosystem services to bot ...

Resilience Alliance2013

Subalpine Pasture-Woodlands in a Changing Climate : the Role of Land Use Type in Ecosystem Resistance to Simulated Climate Change

Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov

Climate change in temperate mountain systems and associated increase in temperature and decrease in precipitation are expected to have strong implications for vegetation productivity, species diversity and carbon turnover in subalpine grasslands. Little is ...

EPFL2013

Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

André Gabriel Kostro, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

In this paper we discuss progress that has been made in modelling of urban resource flows to support urban designers to optimise the sustainability of their design and planning proposals. In particular we consider models of (i) resource availability, (ii)e ...

2008

Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

André Gabriel Kostro, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

In this paper we discuss progress that has been made in modelling of urban resource flows to support urban designers to optimise the sustainability of their design and planning proposals, In particular we consider models of urban energy demand and more gen ...

BRENET2008