Publications associées à Ceinture verte (urbanisme)

From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural-urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966-2018

Mathias Lerch

In high-income countries, migration redistributed populations from congested city centres into the sparsely populated outskirts, raising challenges to environmental and population health and the conservation of biodiversity. We evaluate whether this periur ...

2023

Spatio-Temporal Relationship between Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature in Urban Areas: A Case Study in Geneva and Paris

Roberto Castello, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Xu Ge

Currently, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, which leads to major changes in land use and land surface temperature (LST). The associated urban heat island (UHI) effects have multiple impacts on energy consumption and human health. A ...

2020

Energy transition challenges in under-occupied homes: Assessment of two peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses

Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Current planning policies aim at putting a stop to urban sprawl by favouring densification processes. In this context, future developments are more likely to happen in strategic urban areas than in existing peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses ...

2020

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

Comprendre la construction des périphéries urbaines à Lomé et Yaoundé

Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of decades, it has become more and more difficult to study and control the urbanization processes using the available means due to their rapidity. These conditions ...

EPFL2020

Addressing Urban Sprawl from the Complexity Sciences

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphane Joost, Martí Bosch Padrós

Urban sprawl is nowadays a pervasive topic that is subject of a contentious debate among planners and researchers, who still fail to reach consensual solutions. This paper reviews controversies of the sprawl debate and argues that they owe to a failure of ...

2019

Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities

Barbara Franziska Weilenmann

In Switzerland, as elsewhere, over the past decades, urban areas have spread outwards â consuming the surrounding countryside in the process. The result has been an urban growth associated with negative effects such as the loss of cultivated land. Sprawl ...

EPFL2019

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

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

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

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

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

Fostering sustainable urban renewal at the neighborhood scale with a spatial decision support system

Martine Laprise, Maria Gracia Riera Perez, Emmanuel Rey

Sustainable urban densification is one of the main challenges of European post-industrial cities. In Switzerland, a recent adaptation of the federal law on spatial planning reinforces the limitation of urban sprawl. Hence, public authorities are confronted ...

2018

A new approach to spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities: the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

Motorcycle taxis operate in a non-regulated, uncontrolled environment, raising public health, environmental and economic issues. Consideration of such issues requires an in-depth understanding of motorcycle taxis’ organizational and operational features. U ...

2017

The socio-economic determinants of urban sprawl between 1980 and 2010 in Switzerland

Barbara Franziska Weilenmann, Irmi Seidl

Sprawl, as a particular characterisation of spatial extension of urbanised areas, is a contested issue. In this paper we provide an analysis of the major socio-economic determinants of changes in those urban patterns considered as sprawl in Switzerland. Ou ...

2017

The Big Building : Housing and Complex Design Strategies

Marta Meira Brandão

Large hybrid objects integrating multiple functions and whose scale, over 100'000 m2, is halfway between the fragment of a city and that of a large-scale building: these are the key features of the complex projects that are triggering new debates on the su ...

EPFL2017

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

Living Without a Car : A Canada-France Comparative Outlook

Dominic Villeneuve

This research explores the links between social exclusion, car dependence and public policies for members of non-motorized households who are potentially socially excluded. It is at the crossroads of urban sociology, public policy and transport geography. ...

EPFL2017

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

Peripheral residential developments in Switzerland : Facing carbon neutrality challenge

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

The notion of urban sprawl is a central topic of discourses about sustainable city. In Switzerland as in most European countries, many single-family houses are still being built in the farthest peripheries of urban agglomerations. Characterized by low dens ...

2016

Cadres de vie, modes de vie et mobilités de loisirs : les vertus de la ville compacte remises en cause?

Sébastien Munafò

This thesis aims to examine the causal mechanisms of living environments on leisure mobilities and verify whether their inclusion is actually able to challenge the compact city as a sustainable urban form. The research focuses on the Swiss case and in part ...

EPFL2015