Publications related to Land tenure

The right to housing? The antinomies of social housing between public and private

What is social housing, is it a right or a property? Is it guaranteed for all by welfare state or non-governmental organizations or a commodity in capitalist production and market relations? According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, h ...

2021

A New Approach to the Collection and Spatial Analysis of Land Values in Lomé and Yaoundé

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós

Understanding the land market is crucial when analyzing the spatial dynamics of cities. Spatial models, which are widely used to describe the growth of cities, are underdeveloped in Africa, due in part to the lack of urban data and/or the difficulty of col ...

2020

The Modern Project: A Research Hypothesis

Paola Viganò

The project of the industrial modern city comprises many heterogeneous paths and stories, in particular those regarding the CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) Functional City. They all come together in a discourse that links the architect ...

2019

Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

In Africa, cities are unable to accommodate population growth within their current administrative limits, putting pressure on ecosystem services (ES) in peripheral areas. Existing ES related studies in the region were conducted in East and South Africa, an ...

2018

Pilot studies on optimizing land use, building density and solar electricity generation in dense urban settings

François Maréchal, Shanshan Hsieh, Arno Schlueter

Previous studies have identified links between the urban form and the performance of urban energy systems. Land use and density are two important aspects of urban planning and design. This paper studies the relationship between these aspects and the perfor ...

UNIV POLITECNICA VALENCIA2018

TOWARDS THE "PEOPLE’S HOME". First housing districts in Stockholm

Chiara Monterumisi

The label «People’s home» coined by Swedish Social-Democrats expresses the first step towards the 1930s, 40s and early 50s, which would make Sweden a model for war-ravaged Europe. But “people” and “home” attracted planners, architects, co-operatives and po ...

2017

Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

Alexandre Buttler, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

The traditional use of land for food, fuel and wood created cultural landscapes, which are threatened across Europe. The factors which contributed to their endangerment need to be identified to achieve effective preservation of such landscapes. The aim of ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Urbaniser les Alpes suisses : stratégies de densification des villes en altitude

Fiona Pia

Regional planning, especially in the Alps, is high on the current news agenda in Switzer- land, more so than ever before. The skiing boom has driven massive urbanisation in mountain areas, primarily in locations at altitudes of 1400m or higher. For several ...

EPFL2016

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, Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov, Thomas Spiegelberger

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

Used planet: A global history

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Human use of land has transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the terrestrial biosphere, a global change often described as historically recent and potentially catastrophic for both humanity and the biosphere. Interdisciplinary paleoecolog ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

What are the right land supply policies for housing in the Geneva trans-frontier conurbation?

Michèle Tranda-Pittion

For decades the trans-frontier conurbation of Geneva has suffered from a recurring housing shortage, and the supply of land has been clearly recognized by local professionals as one of the main factors in a resolution of this problem. The cross-boundary na ...

2010

Do Foreigners Pay Higher Rents for the Same Quality of Housing in Geneva and Zurich?

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

The Geneva and Zurich housing markets are characterised by high proportions of foreigners and a large share of rental housing. This provides ideal conditions for testing whether foreigners pay more for the same quality of housing than Swiss households and ...

2008

Land use changes and transnational migration : the impact of remittances in Western Mexico

Silvia Hostettler

The present study focuses on the economic, political/institutional, technological, cultural, demographic and environmental drivers of land use change. It aims to understand the factors influencing land use decisions at the household level, in particular th ...

EPFL2007