Urban Metabolism
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New Urban Metabolism
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Author : Josep Antoni Acebillo
language : en
Publisher: ACTAR Publishers
Release Date : 2012
New Urban Metabolism written by Josep Antoni Acebillo and has been published by ACTAR Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.
"The iCUP (Institute for Contemporary Urban Project) is the institute, directed by ... Acebillo and coordinated by ... Enrico Sassi, within which this book has been produced and it is part of the Accademia di architettura, USI (Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Mendrisio"--Page 6.
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
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Author : Paulo Ferrao
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-30
Sustainable Urban Metabolism written by Paulo Ferrao and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities account for enormous flows of energy and materials—inflows of goods and services and outflows of waste. Thus urban environmental management critically affects global sustainability. In this book, Paulo Ferrão and John Fernández offer a metabolic perspective on urban sustainability, viewing the city as a metabolism, in terms of its exchanges of matter and energy. Their book provides a roadmap to the strategies and tools needed for a scientifically based framework for analyzing and promoting the sustainability of urban systems. Using the concept of urban metabolism as a unifying framework, Ferrão and Fernandez describe a systems-oriented approach that establishes useful linkages among environmental, economic, social, and technical infrastructure issues. These linkages lead to an integrated information-intensive platform that enables ecologically informed urban planning. After establishing the theoretical background and describing the diversity of contributing disciplines, the authors sample sustainability approaches and tools, offer an extended study of the urban metabolism of Lisbon, and outline the challenges and opportunities in approaching urban sustainability in both developed and developing countries.
Understanding Urban Metabolism
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Author : Nektarios Chrysoulakis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-27
Understanding Urban Metabolism written by Nektarios Chrysoulakis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-27 with Architecture categories.
Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions. Urban metabolism considers a city as a system, and distinguishes between energy and material flows as its components. Based on research from the BRIDGE project, this book deals with how the urban surface exchanges and transforms energy, water, carbon and pollutants in cities. This book also introduces a new method for evaluating how planning alternatives can modify the physical flows of urban metabolism components and how environmental and socioeconomic components interact. The inclusion of sustainability principles into urban planning provides an opportunity to place the new knowledge provided by bio-physical sciences at the centre of the planning process, but there is a strong need to bridge knowledge and practice, as well as for a better dissemination of research results and exchange of best practice. This book meets that need and provides the reader with the necessary tools to integrate an understanding of urban metabolism into urban planning practice.
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
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Author : Paulo Ferrão
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Sustainable Urban Metabolism written by Paulo Ferrão and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING categories.
Urban Metabolism
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Author : Yan Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Urban Metabolism written by Yan Zhang and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism. Urban metabolism is an important research philosophy and approach for analyzing urban mega organism and its ecological environmental problems. It has constantly formed quantitative network research framework and analysis methods in a metaphor way and expanded its application in different scales such as global, national, urban agglomeration and city to support the process of multi-scale regional sustainable development.
Urban Metabolism And Climate Change
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Author : Rahul Bhadouria
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-05-23
Urban Metabolism And Climate Change written by Rahul Bhadouria and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the urban sprawl and climate change. Different patterns of urbanization contribute to the changing climate via. differences in their urban metabolism represented by energy and matter. Urban metabolic studies in terms of energy and material inflows, outflows, and stocks can be associated with traditional evaluation techniques to help assess the magnitude and potential effects of variety of environmental challenges the world is facing today. Urban centres are critical real time observatories that indicate the impact anthropogenic activities have on global biogeochemical cycles. Urban processes have significant and lasting impacts on the global carbon budget. The technological and infrastructural advancements have fuelled an increase in urban inputs and outputs of material and energy. Therefore, more sustainable approaches need to be adopted in changing scenarios for urban planning, particularly for sustainable resource utilization and better waste management practices. The book emphasises on the sustainability in urban metabolism, sustainable urban planning, ecosystem services, and disaster resilience to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of urban metabolism. The book also identifies an urgent need to develop new methodological approaches for real time and reliable evaluation of urban metabolism.
Urban Metabolism Of Six Asian Cities
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Author : Asian Development Bank
language : en
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Urban Metabolism Of Six Asian Cities written by Asian Development Bank and has been published by Asian Development Bank this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Business & Economics categories.
The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced. Information generated provides a diagnostic tool for identifying high waste generating or inefficient activities and identifying potential points of policy intervention. The streamlined approach surmounts the lack of city level data, which is often cited as the most significant limitation preventing material flow analysis at the city level. Extension of the methodology to cover more cities can contribute toward creating benchmarks for city typologies.
Urban Metabolism And Ecological Management
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Author : Gengyuan LIU
language : en
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Urban Metabolism And Ecological Management written by Gengyuan LIU and has been published by EDP Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Business & Economics categories.
Urbanization is the one of the most evident forms of anthropization. With most of the world population living in cities, the need of thinking about a more sustainable urban lifestyle has become an imperative. This is why present and future generations of scholars, urban managers and policy makers should be prepared to work together to support the reduction of impacts generated by urban activities, while pursuing the goal of an equitable and sustainable well-being within the planetary boundaries. In this respect, the use of different methods and tools can support the implementation of roadmaps and policies. Besides that, different communication languages can be used to enhance the development of a shared reflective vision about the future of cities among citizens, as major actors of the urban life and its transformation. This book provides an accessible overview of some key methods to deal holistically with the analysis of urban resources flows to readers with an interest in the academic or professional reference of the different approaches for studying urban metabolism. It presents some of the most important tools along with relevant case studies to illustrate their potential application. Experts in the field and holding the belief that visions and hopes trigger decisions and behaviors beyond the knowledge, the authors introduce readers to the use of different art-based methods to engage with citizens towards a common outlook on the future of our cities. The book also offers an enhanced reading experience by featuring a soundtrack composed by one of the authors and available through the QR code at the beginning of each chapter.
In The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Nik Heynen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
In The Nature Of Cities written by Nik Heynen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
Drawing together the theoretical and empirical work of prominent urban scholars, this volume explores how interrelated economic, political and cultural everyday processes form and transform urban environments.
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
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Author : Andrea Capodaglio
language : en
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-15
Sustainable Urban Metabolism written by Andrea Capodaglio and has been published by IWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Science categories.
Sustainable Urban Metabolism summarizes the state-of-the-art in issues related to sustainable urban metabolism referred to treatment and management of water, wastewater and solid wastes, with specific reference to state-of-the-art applicable technologies for energy savings and recovery.