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  22 août 2019

  Let’s Play Together Party

  29 août 2019 – 19h30-23h00 – Lieu : La Commune, 3 rue Pré-Gaudry, 69007 Lyon Retour en images Le LabEx IMU, avec le soutien de l’Ecole Urbaine de Lyon, organise dans le cadre du Congrès de l’ERSA – Cities, regions and digital transformations: opportunities, risks and challenges une soirée sur le thème des Jeux Urbains. […]

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  19 juillet 2018

  POLLUX – Nocturnal light pollution: how extensive is it? What are the effects on biodiversity? What legislative measures need to be taken? (2017)

  Summary: Nocturnal artificial light is essentially emitted by urban areas and road infrastructure. This phenomena is constantly increasing and has significant biological consequences. In effect, night-time periods regulate the synthesis of melatonin, the key hormone which synchronises a multitude of physiological processes (metabolism, growth, stress and immunity in the majority of animals). Although effects on […]

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  16 juillet 2018

  REVISOLS – City regeneration and polluted or potentially polluted soils (2015)

  Summary: REVISOLS addresses the issue of city regeneration from the point of view of soil repurposing. Reconstruction/densification is now a priority in a public policy context that aims to limit urban sprawl and encourage compact cities. This project takes an upstream approach, addressing the issue of soils polluted or potentially polluted by past industrial and […]

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  PATHO-AIR – Use of retention basins in managing storm water: Evaluation of the exposure of neighbouring populations and operators to bioaerosols and pathogenic bacteria (2015)

  Summary: The urban environment today concentrates most of the global population and this process does not seem likely to change. As such, town and cities have organised themselves accordingly and significant environmental changes have followed. The water cycle has been particularly disrupted, which has led to the emergence of new risks for societies and their […]

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