Stimulating the regeneration of urban areas
Prof. Emmanuel Rey of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) was invited by the Swiss representatives of the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) on April 23. Based on research results and recent operational experiments, he gave on this occasion a lecture entitled "Integration of sustainability at neighborhood scale to stimulate the regeneration of urban areas."
FIABCI is a worldwide federation of a hundred real estate associations in 60 countries of North and South America, Europe and Asia. It has a consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations Organization. This international network is dedicated to all real estate professions, in order to ease the exchange and spreading of information.
As an organization of general interest in the real estate service, FIABCI provides professional training for international management and publishes information, analysis and reflection magazines. It also organizes meetings and seminars between the different professional acting in this field.
The lecture of Professor Rey more specifically focused on the analysis of urban design at neighborhood scale. In a sustainability perspective, the neighborhood level indeed offers an interesting scale both theoretical (research) and operational (practice), as it allows to address a significant number of criteria, while remaining within a relatively confined area of intervention