Publications related to Suburbanization

Frihet, sikkerhet, forstaden: Brev fra Amerika

Why have countries formerly leading public policies of housing – Norway, the U.K., France, etc. – shifted towards privatizing accommodation from the late 1970s? Have these States merely let go of housing and handed it over to private interests in the name ...

2024

Mapping the charging demand for electric vehicles in 2050 from mobility habits

Christophe Ballif, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Nicolas Würsch

This paper proposes a method to spatially model and compare charging needs on the European scale considering local disparities in population density, distance to city centres, car ownership and mobility habits. Mobility habits are modelled across Europe in ...

2024

Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential

Dusan Licina, Evangelos Belias

Residential ventilative cooling via natural ventilation is influenced by outdoor air pollution. However, relative to climate, outdoor air pollution is not comprehensively considered in determining the ventilative cooling potential of buildings. To assess t ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Towards sustainable transitions of peri-urban neighborhoods of detached houses

Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Peri-urban neighborhoods of detached houses are facing countless challenges related to the building stock’s low energy efficiency, to the current demographic transition reducing household size and increasing the proportion of elderlies, to their distant lo ...

2020

From technocrats to laymen: Community planning and self-help housing for workers in Marshall Plan countries

Sila Karatas

With the introduction of the Marshall Plan to Europe after the Second World War, architectural practice for workers’ housing faced a paradigmatic shift by means of procedural approaches and spatial strategies as well as roles of planner, architect and comm ...

2020

La fragmentation de l’espace urbain postsocialiste en Albanie

Alain Nicolas Jarne

After 30 years of controlled and decentralized urban development, the Albanian urban space has gone through a brutal transition. At the fall of the regime in 1991, the network of small and medium-sized cities set up during communism initially survived, at ...

2019

Intermediate Cities

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...

Wiley2019

Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments

Emanuele Massaro

Urbanization drives the epidemiology of infectious diseases to many threats and new challenges. In this research, we study the interplay between human mobility and dengue outbreaks in the complex urban environment of the city-state of Singapore. We integra ...

Springer Nature2019

Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l'horizon 2050

Judith Elisa Drouilles

Since the Industrial Revolution, urban spaces have undergone a profound reorganisation in parallel with a transformation of society and lifestyles. Urban sprawl has become widespread in Switzerland, as in countless countries, due to continuous innovations ...

EPFL2019

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

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

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 ...

2018

Peri-urban communities in transition: transformation scenarios of neighbourhoods towards sustainability

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

The paper outlines the theoretical context and preliminary outputs of the investigation on the prospective evolution of existing peri-urban neighborhoods of single-family houses toward lower carbon and more resilient communities, for 2050, in Switzerland. ...

2017

Towards a sustainable renewal of peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses in Switzerland

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Resulting from the society shift of the post-war period, urban growth and urban sprawl of infrastructure and settlements of individual housing are today at the centre of public policies’ focus, in particular due to their widely criticized environmental imp ...

2017

Urban Development Processes: Methodological Investigation into the Complexity and Dynamics of Post-socialist Cities : Case Study of Savamala Neighbourhood in Belgrade, Serbia

Marija Cvetinovic

The overall objective of this thesis is to critically address, break down and reassemble the urban development process in post-socialist cities through a set of analyses that covers urban planning strategies, real-estate interventions, participatory and ur ...

EPFL2017

Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

Jean-Claude Bolay

According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more exte ...

2016

The Role of Ocean Space in Contemporary Urbanization

Nancy Raewyn Couling

Although the ocean is investigated by many scientific fields, research about ocean space is scarce. But energy production, extraction of resources, infrastructural and logistical development is increasing incrementally, resulting in a quantum shift in scal ...

EPFL2015

Changes in Employment Localization and Accessibility : the Case of Switzerland between 1939 and 2008

Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet

Until about the end of WWII, the territorial organization of the economy could be expressed along a very strong center-periphery gradient, with industries and services concentrated in cities while the countryside supplied agricultural products. Since the i ...

EPFL2011

La densification des espaces urbains, une problématique contemporaine interrogée par le logement collectif

Frédéric Frank

The modern and contemporary city has given birth to vast peripheries due to rapid growth. A first glance at these areas reveals that architectural theories and urbanism paradigms encounter each other without fixed rules or regulated planning. Moreover, the ...

EPFL2009

The Effects of Building Representation and Clustering in Large-Eddy Simulations of Flows in Urban Canopies

Marc Parlange, Jan Overney

We perform large-eddy simulations of neutral atmospheric boundary-layer flow over a cluster of buildings surrounded by relatively flat terrain. The first investigated question is the effect of the level of building detail that can be included in the numeri ...

2009

La ville comme "Stimmungslandschaft" : le sentiment urbain à Buenos Aires aux XIXe et XXe siècles

This thesis analyses the city of Buenos Aires as a lived space in its historical context, based on my childhood memories. It characterizes the specific Stimmung that colours the urban and suburban spaces of Buenos Aires in the XIXth and XXth century. I ach ...

EPFL2007

Construire à distance : les réalisations de l'agence immobilière genevoise Addor et Julliard à Beyrouth dans les années 1950-1960

Habib Sayah

Through a case study, this research aims at contributing to the historic understanding of the international architecture after the Second World War. It is based on the monographic analysis of the projects realised by the Geneva agency Addor & Julliard in L ...

EPFL2007