Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities

© 2017.This paper uses urban metabolism as a way to understand the sustainability of cities. It suggests that the city organism can reduce its metabolic footprint (resource inputs and waste outputs) whilst improving its livability. Like organisms, different cities have different metabolisms. This pa...

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Main Authors: Thomson, G., Newman, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62300
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description © 2017.This paper uses urban metabolism as a way to understand the sustainability of cities. It suggests that the city organism can reduce its metabolic footprint (resource inputs and waste outputs) whilst improving its livability. Like organisms, different cities have different metabolisms. This paper demonstrates that different parts of a city (walking, transit and automobile urban fabrics) also have different urban metabolisms. A detailed case study from the city of Perth, Australia, is used to demonstrate metabolic variations in different parts of the city. Understanding urban metabolism and the processes that drive it is the key to transitioning from ecologically extractive to sustainable cities. Through targeted improvements it is even possible for some elements of the city to become regenerative so that they restore parts of the degraded urban environment thus reversing damage to the biosphere.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-623002018-03-29T05:53:52Z Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities Thomson, G. Newman, Peter © 2017.This paper uses urban metabolism as a way to understand the sustainability of cities. It suggests that the city organism can reduce its metabolic footprint (resource inputs and waste outputs) whilst improving its livability. Like organisms, different cities have different metabolisms. This paper demonstrates that different parts of a city (walking, transit and automobile urban fabrics) also have different urban metabolisms. A detailed case study from the city of Perth, Australia, is used to demonstrate metabolic variations in different parts of the city. Understanding urban metabolism and the processes that drive it is the key to transitioning from ecologically extractive to sustainable cities. Through targeted improvements it is even possible for some elements of the city to become regenerative so that they restore parts of the degraded urban environment thus reversing damage to the biosphere. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62300 10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.01.010 Elsevier restricted
spellingShingle Thomson, G.
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Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
title Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
title_full Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
title_fullStr Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
title_full_unstemmed Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
title_short Urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
title_sort urban fabrics and urban metabolism - from sustainable to regenerative cities
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62300