Keynote Speakers
Sabine BARLES
Professor
Laboratory Géographie-Cités
Institut de géographie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Sabine Barles obtained a civil engineering degree in 1988, a Master in city planning in 1989 (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and a Master in history of technology in 1989 (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales). She received her PhD in urban planning in 1993 (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and her habilitation in 2004 (Université Paris 1). She has been assistant professor, then professor at Institut Français d&rsquoUrbanisme and moved to Université Paris 1 in 2011. She is responsible of the research option of a Master Degree in urban planning.
She is member of Institut Universitaire de France since 2008 and director of the interdisciplinary research programme &ldquoEnvironment and the City&rdquo (CNRS and MEDDTL) since 2010. Her main research topics concern urban environmental history and history of urban technology (18th &ndash 20th centuries), urban metabolism and territorial ecology.
Subject of the conference: Urban metabolism and modelling.
Emmanuel PRADOS
Scientist researcher at INRIA.
Leader of the STEEP research group at the INRIA Rhône-Alpes Research Center (Grenoble).
STEEPresearch group is devoted to systemic modelling and simulation of the interactions between the environmental, economic and social factors in the context of transition to sustainability at local (sub-national) scales. Its objective is to set up some mathematical and computational tools to develop decision-making tools.
E. Prados&rsquos research activities focus on the application of mathematics and computer science to the modelling of the transition to sustainability at local scale. His competences involve various topics of applied mathematics and computer science theoretical and numerical analysis of Partial Differential Equations, control theory, differential games, dynamic programming, variational methods and optimization.
Between 2006 and 2010, he worked in the Perception group(INRIA Rhône-Alpes). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the computer science department of UCLA(2005). He graduated as a Ph.D. (2004) working in the Odyssee Lab.at the INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
Subject of the conference: Integrated Urban Modelling, Principles and Practices.
Raphaël MENARD
Director of Elioth (Egis Concept)
Foresight Studies Director at Egis Group
Raphaël Ménard is an engineer (Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and architect (DPLG Paris-Belleville). He began his career at R.F.R as an architect-engineer and worked in particular on the Simone de Beauvoir footbridge in Paris and on the design of the glass canopy at the Strasbourg railway station.
In 2003, he founded and became Director of Elioth, an engineering team dedicated to ecodesign and complex building engineering. Inside Elioth, he has developed several innovations and patents on renewable energies such as Solar Mountains, Wind-it (Metropolis Next Gen Prize in 2009), interseasonal solar energy storage or Clim&rsquoElioth. In the Egis group, Elioth participates also in different projects for the French National Research Agency (ANR).
Since end 2010, Raphaël is also Foresight Studies Director and Advisor to the CEO of the Egis Group. Raphaël Ménard wrote several articles and lectures on sustainable design and urban prospective.
Subject of the conference: Dense cities in 2050, the energy option?
Keynote Speaker
Sir Alan Wilson
Professor
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
Sir Alan Wilson is Professor of Urban and Regional Systems in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London and is Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Best known for his pioneering work on spatial interaction methods and dynamical systems theory in transportation and urban modelling, he has joined the UCL CASA in 2007. Sir Alan originally trained as a mathematician but converted in the 1960s from theoretical physics to the social sciences through research on the mathematical modelling of cities. He had research posts in Oxford and London before being appointed as Professor of Urban & Regional Geography at the University of Leeds in 1970.
He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1991&ndash2004. From 2004&ndash2006, he was Director-General for Higher Education in the Department for Education & Skills. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Title of the conference: &ldquoUrban Modelling: The science and its contributions to planning&rdquo
Abstract :
The talk begins with two questions: what are we modelling? And why are we modelling? The history is briefly reviewed and the state of the science of urban modelling is illustrated first with reference to the retail flow model. This embraces the standard use of this model in planning and then presents a dynamic version, modelling structural evolution. This illustrates a major challenge: modelling cities as nonlinear systems in relation to path dependence, possible phase changes and the implications of this understanding for longer-term planning. The paper concludes with a review of the common and potential uses of models in urban management and planning, short term and long term, within a policy-design-analysis framework.