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Developing the urban metabolism approach into a new urban metabolic model
- Title
- Developing the urban metabolism approach into a new urban metabolic model
- Author(s)
- Alessandro Costa
- N Marchettini
- Angelo Facchini
- Year
- 2004
- Type
- Journal Article
- Source
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The sustainable city III: Urban regeneration and assessment, ed. N. Marchettini, CA Brebbia, E. Tiezza, and LC Wadhwa, Pages 31--40
- DOI
- 10.2495/SC040041
- Abstract
- Considering the city as a peculiar kind of ecosystem, this paper explores the potential of a metabolic approach to urban development interpretation, proposing an enhanced metabolic urban model.
This new metabolic model strongly focuses on the influence that institutional activities have on urban sustainability.
Such activities – like planning and other decisional processes - are considered as an important feedback of urban dynamics.
This last updating aims at connecting the conceptual modelling to urban governance.
1 Introduction:
Urban settlements have recently become the most popular choice of life for human kind.
More than 50% of the world population already lives in cities [6] and this figure rises to 80% if referred to the European continent [2]. In environmental terms,...
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/SC040041
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Metabolism of Cities