Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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This research aims to contribute to the integral management of Global Issues. Topics whose complexity and magnitude is so high that affect all humanity, they are long-term issues and cannot be solved by one sole nation. ...
Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation dynamics from different ...
The thesis states that, as economies become more internationalized and as monetary and physical transnational flows increase, the negative externalities associated with these flows also rise. Externalities are distributed ...
The present work proposes to examine the conflict between architecture and the socio-pedagogical problem of social reintegration of the child and adolescent population, in a regime of deprivation of freedom. lt focuses on ...
To analyse the current situation of the Latin American subcontinent is to speak of a process of repression, as explained by Alberto Acosta when referring to the evil of abundance: countries rich in natural resources, whose ...
Con el objetivo de identificar factores y características que faciliten y promuevan la resiliencia social-ecológica en las ciudades, esta tesis doctoral sitúa, analiza, estructura, e interpreta las prácticas urbanísticas ...
El reconocimiento del Derecho Humano al Agua y Saneamiento (DHAS) a través de las resoluciones de la Asamblea General y del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas en 2010 representa un gran avance en el sector del ...
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme predicts that by 2030, the number of inhabitants in urban self-produced settlements (slums for UN-HABITAT) will reach 2 billion. These places have a classic definition: ...
This thesis explores the in-between spaces of the contemporary city, and the role they have in promoting urban togetherness through interstitial practice. By looking at different processes that take place in the borderlands ...
One of the main goals of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is to guarantee quality education for all students, especially the most vulnerable. Engineering studies are a key element in educating and training future ...
"Consumption", a major concern of the late 19th century, was still a disease associated with misery in the collective imagination of the early 20th century. The present dissertation focuses on consumption in the Barcelonian ...
(English) Living in the era of big data and artificiall intelligence this thesis wants to contribute with a new methodology to support data-driven decisions rapidly after data collection, and a technological infrastructure ...
El riesgo sísmico y en general los desastres futuros que puede sufrir una ciudad, una región o un país significan una obligación o pasivo contingente no explícito que puede afectar, desde el punto de vista macroeconómico, ...
The use of urban planning, design and management policies as a tool to prevent crime from a situational perspective, serves as a theoretical framework to analyze, explain and interpret the influence of urban regeneration ...
En esta tesis hemos elaborado una propuesta metodológica de análisis de la sostenibilidad regional utilizando la visión sistémica para su conceptualización, el paradigma de la sostenibilidad para su análisis, la metodología ...
This paper considers the current status of our planet as well as the particular conditions of the economic crisis in Spain in order to propose an analysis of the efficiency involved in reconditioning the skin of the existing ...
The present dynamics in the environment,in which the organizations are inserted, in this globalization time, with a remarkable incidence in the form of negotiating their essential processes,make necessary to have systems ...
Universal Accessibility: On the need of an empathy-based architecture is a PhD thesis researching the paradigm of accessible architectural design. Starting from the very first understanding of accessibility in architecture, ...
