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EPFL2024

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Over the course of history, the relationship between cities and their waters has shown different gradients of interweaving, marked by cycles of bonding and distancing. Following a period of complete neglect of urban watercourses, the versatile, multifacete ...

EPFL2024

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EPFL2024

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EPFL2023

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EPFL2023

Politics of Urban Planning : The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

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Springer2022

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China’s extended urbanization driven by the 'consumption city' in the context of financialized ecological civilization

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This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

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Urban sustainability assessment in Geneva: Relevance of the local neighbourhood unit

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Sage2022

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EPFL2021

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EPFL2021

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EPFL2020

Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)

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Although rapid population growth will give them a significant weight in global urbanization by the middle of the century, African cities remain little known. As a result, they are essentially outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which jus ...

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Mapping urban underground potential in Dakar, Senegal: From the analytic hierarchy process to self-organizing maps

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Mapping Urbanization as an Anthropedogenetic Process: A Section through the Times of Urban Soils

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Current trends of spatial planning policies give a strategic role to soils, the multifunctionality of which must be considered as a crucial driver facing cities’ forthcoming social-ecological transition. However, soils within urban areas are insufficiently ...

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Handbook of Urban Mobilities

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This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, ...

Routledge2020