Civil Engineering

''Slow down''

Published:18.01.22 — Vincent Kaufmann calls for an end to the unequal model of speed. In a book co-written with Tom Dubois, Christophe Gay and Sylvie Landriève, the urban sociology researcher from EPFL reminds us that the territories have been developed on the carbon model of the car, a choice that is incompatible with low incomes, because speed is expensive.

Alternative culture

Published:18.01.22 — Luca Pattaroni, from the Laboratory of Urban Sociology at EPFL, was interviewed by the RTS for the great debate of the program "Forum" on December 23rd, about the alternative culture

Switzerland needs to rethink its spatial planning

Published:18.01.22 — Vincent Kaufmann and Sophie Lufkin from LASUR provide the keys to understanding the densification of the territory and how Switzerland should develop to accommodate the ten million people who will inhabit the territory in 2050.