Adaptive urban modelling for solar energy simulations 

    Muñoz Novoa, David (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)

    In summary, this thesis proposes to address the problem of simulating physical effects in large urban environments through the use of procedural rules and Level-of-Detail techniques, in order to reduce the computational ...

    Decision support framework for space-use optimization and arrangement of public services 

    Rusek, Robert (Date of defense: 2017-05-24)

    The thesis concentrates particularly on how to enhance space-use in the case of public facilities. This issue has been approached by repurposing existing facilities and introducing additional services, thereby creating ...

    El cuerpo en espacios públicos brasileños: un estudio en dos plazas de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais, desde la perspectiva educativa. O corpo em espaços públicos brasileiros: um estudo em duas praças de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais, a partir da perspectiva educativa 

    Martiriano de Faria, Wagner Francis (Date of defense: 2022-05-17)

    This thesis proposes to analyze how the space of the Raul Soares and Liberdade squares, in the city of Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil, is manifested by their different bodies, especially through the practices that ...

    Green citites and green urban economy; contributions from case studies for a necessary low-carbon future 

    Nuss Girona, Sergi (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)

    City Governments engaged in climate change mitigation and adaptation face the multiple challenge of self-commitment, the need to involve their communities and stakeholders, and top-down and multi-scalar processes out of ...

    L'edificació en el dret andorrà 

    Figuereda, Pere (Date of defense: 2017-05-16)

    The thesis of the construction in the Andorran Law has been focused on the study of the building law in the Principality of Andorra. Throughout seven chapters, introductory aspects on urban planning and building are ...

    L'Eixample Malagrida d'Olot: urbanisme i arquitectura a la Catalunya-ciutat-jardí 

    Vergés Tejero, Arnau (Date of defense: 2021-03-12)

    THE GARDEN CITY. This is the name under which Eixample Malagrida (the extension district) of the city of Olot is known; this is what it was called in the only plans available to us of the project that was born in the middle ...

    L'expansió urbanística del Poble-sec de Barcelona. El cas dels molers de les pedreres de Montjuïc 

    Bellvehi Casadella, Josep (Date of defense: 2022-02-09)

    The community feeling associated to belonging to a neighbourhood is essential in our life quality. These emotions represent the relationship between the individual and the city. In this sense, this doctoral thesis analyzes ...

    La problemática de los usos del suelo no urbanizable 

    Capell Fabri, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)

    The aim of this thesis is to analyse, study and evaluate the different problems that have arise from the uses that have been authorised on undeveloped land, derived from the urban planning regulations that preceded them, ...

    La responsabilidad patrimonial de las administraciones públicas por cambio de la ordenación urbanística y por la anulación de los títulos administrativos habilitantes, a la luz de la doctrina de la Comissió jurídica assessora de la Generalitat de Catalunya y de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo 

    Capilla Vidal, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)

    The work, based on an applied and academic legal methodology, carries out a critical analysis of the current regulation of the institution of patrimonial responsibility as a guarantee of the citizens in our legal system. ...

    Les grans infrastructures de transport i el desenvolupament de la ciutat mitjana. El Tren d'Alta Velocitat a les ciutats de Lleida, Avinyó i Novara 

    Feliu i Torrent, Jaume (Date of defense: 2005-02-11)

    L'objectiu central de la tesi és estudiar els processos que permeten aconseguir un desenvolupament local a llarg termini de les ciutats mitjanes a partir de la implantació d'una gran infrastructura com el Tren d'Alta ...

    Life cycle assessment of cities: the first steps for standardization 

    Albertí Bueno, Jaume (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)

    Cities are recognised as great generators of impacts and, consequently, seen as an opportunity for reducing them Worldwide. Cities are environmentally relevant because of two reasons. Firstly, because they are responsible, ...

    Nous processos d'urbanització i consum d'aigua per a usos domèstics. Una exploració de relacions a l'àmbit gironí 

    Garcia Acosta, Xavier (Date of defense: 2012-10-16)

    This thesis aims to expand knowledge about the management of domestic water consumption. Among the various factors that influence water consumption, price and other economic variables have already been addressed by much ...

    Paisatge i models urbans contemporanis. Les comarques gironines (1979-2006): del "desarrollismo" a la globalització 

    Valdunciel i Coll, Julio (Date of defense: 2011-06-14)

    This doctoral thesis offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the changes in the urban shape and landscape of the Girona Counties between 1979 and 2006. The theoretical part of the research lies within the framework ...

    El règim jurídic del litoral català 

    Aguirre i Font, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2013-03-07)

    This thesis focuses on regional coastal planning, starting with a look at the scope of the new coastal planning responsibilities assumed by the Catalan Government as established in article 149.3 of the Statute of Autonomy ...

    Ricard Giralt i Casadesús, un noucentista transversal (1884-1970): arquitectura, urbanisme i municipi a la Catalunya del segle XX 

    Gil, Rosa Maria, 1962- (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)

    The present thesis studies in depth a perspective of the noucentista movement focusing on the professional career of the architect Ricard Giralt Casadesús (1884-1970) and particularly on his urban design approach and social ...

    Smarter urban planning through a citizen-based approach. The Smart urban planning method 

    Marsal, Maria Lluïsa, 1974- (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)

    In this dissertation we propose an objective method for updating traditional urban planning methodologies based on input from citizens regarding their current and future urban requirements. Specifically, our methodology ...

    Socioeconomic status determines floristic patterns in suburban domestic gardens: implications for water use and alien plant dispersal in the Mediterranean context 

    Padullés Cubino, Josep (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)

    The recent growth of low-density urban developments in the Mediterranean coast has led to an increase in the number of private domestic gardens. This thesis examines the flora, features and management practices of 258 ...

    Temporal evolution of ancient buildings 

    Fita López, Josep Lluis (Date of defense: 2019-12-10)

    Nowadays, the improvement in Computer Graphics has benefited fields such as Cultural Heritage, where the main efforts have focused on the digital preservation of historic buildings or urban structures. In this thesis, ...

    Towards socially sustainable smart cities: observations and potentials from digitizing participatory planning 

    Bouzguenda, Islam (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)

    This thesis contributes to the current debate on the relationship between the participation of digital citizens in urban planning and social sustainability within the framework of the smart city concept. Recent studies ...

    Urbanismo ambiental y evaluación estratégica 

    Cuyás Palazón, Mercedes (Date of defense: 2005-10-07)

    La tesis doctoral "Urbanismo Ambiental y Evaluación Estratégica" investiga y propone un renovado papel del urbanismo y muy especialmente de la ordenación del territorio como instrumentos no tan sólo de valor para la ...