A living city: using urban metabolism analysis to view cities as life forms
S. Pincetl, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Abstract:
Urban metabolism (UM) is an accounting of inputs into urban systems, the work that gets done and the waste that results from the urban system using those inputs. To date, accounting has been limited to energy, materials, water, nutrients and waste that enter and leave a city at the city scale. This chapter suggests that for UM to be of use in sustainability, UM needs to be downscaled to the census block (for socio-demographic understanding of the users of energy), by sector (to understand how the economy uses energy) and to include life cycle analysis of economic key sectors.
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