Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone
Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, a tailor-made multi-criteria evaluation meth...
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| description | Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, a tailor-made multi-criteria evaluation method appears necessary to gather information not only on sustainability performances of neighborhoods projects but also on specific features linked to a balanced relationships between rivers and cities. On these observations, we develop the concept of city-river balance by focusing on the Rhone territory. It serves as a basis to design an innovative decision-support tool for comparing forward-looking visions for rhodanian neighborhoods in transition. First, this paper presents the methodological research approach taken to develop the tool. Then, it explains the structure and functioning of the tool, followed by a test application to a case study, the Jonction sector in Geneva, Switzerland. Preliminary results show that specific city-river balance components and indicators can explicitly be thematized and measured. Moreover, such a tool could unveil hidden potentialities and help stakeholders to make informed-decision through a resilient vision for the regeneration of rhodanian neighborhoods. In that sense, it promotes not only a transition towards sustainability but also the emergence of a city-river balance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c805e2a4265d4e8b9e0c67274ccf9d7d2023-01-26T04:47:29ZengElsevierCity and Environment Interactions2590-25202023-01-0117100093Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the RhoneSara Formery0Martine Laprise1Emmanuel Rey2Corresponding author at: EPFL, ENAC, IA, LAST, BP 2 227/Station 16, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.; Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), Institute of Architecture and the City (IA), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental engineering (ENAC), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), BP 2225/Station 16, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandLaboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), Institute of Architecture and the City (IA), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental engineering (ENAC), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), BP 2225/Station 16, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandLaboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), Institute of Architecture and the City (IA), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental engineering (ENAC), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), BP 2225/Station 16, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandRelationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, a tailor-made multi-criteria evaluation method appears necessary to gather information not only on sustainability performances of neighborhoods projects but also on specific features linked to a balanced relationships between rivers and cities. On these observations, we develop the concept of city-river balance by focusing on the Rhone territory. It serves as a basis to design an innovative decision-support tool for comparing forward-looking visions for rhodanian neighborhoods in transition. First, this paper presents the methodological research approach taken to develop the tool. Then, it explains the structure and functioning of the tool, followed by a test application to a case study, the Jonction sector in Geneva, Switzerland. Preliminary results show that specific city-river balance components and indicators can explicitly be thematized and measured. Moreover, such a tool could unveil hidden potentialities and help stakeholders to make informed-decision through a resilient vision for the regeneration of rhodanian neighborhoods. In that sense, it promotes not only a transition towards sustainability but also the emergence of a city-river balance.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252022000150RhoneSustainable neighborhoodsCity-river balanceProject-based visionResearch-by-designMulti-criteria evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Sara Formery Martine Laprise Emmanuel Rey Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone City and Environment Interactions Rhone Sustainable neighborhoods City-river balance Project-based vision Research-by-design Multi-criteria evaluation |
| title | Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone |
| title_full | Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone |
| title_fullStr | Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone |
| title_short | Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone |
| title_sort | promoting a city river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the rhone |
| topic | Rhone Sustainable neighborhoods City-river balance Project-based vision Research-by-design Multi-criteria evaluation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252022000150 |
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