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Urban

Publications associées (5)

Singularité des slums: Production de l'espace dans la ville indienne

Salomé Clémentine Houllier-Binder

Contemporary urbanism, as a science and ideology, sometimes induces a violence of urbanization that is exercised through formal planning on informal settlements. The latter are marginalized through processes of (in)visibility that exclude them from the cit ...

EPFL2019

Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Cities are responsible for the predominant share of anthropogenic environmental pressures. Recently, consistent methodologies to measure the metabolism of cities have been developed in order to enhance comparability between case studies and enable cross-ci ...

Elsevier2017

Ambiguïtés de la « ville créative » : néolibéralisation, condition urbaine et puissances politiques de l'art

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Art and culture have a renewed role in the contemporary city. Theories relative to the creative class, the creative economy and the creative city are both descriptive and prescriptive; they focus on the role of culture in the urban production process and, ...

EPFL2017

Assemblage form : an ontology of the urban generic with regard to architecture, computation, and design

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 organizationâ one th ...

EPFL2016

... Vers de nouvelles formes d'espaces publics commerciaux : "architecturaliser" la périphérie

"Architecturaliser" the suburb is the study of contemporary urban forms of development that have emerged due to the rise of individual mobility and the manner in which people shop. This work investigates shopping centers, in terms of their physical structu ...

EPFL2008