The study of urban metabolism and its applications to urban planning and design.

By C. Kennedy, Stephanie Pincetl, P. Bunje. Environmental Pollution, 2011

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Urban scaling laws (2019, background): “The idea of the city as a metabolic system dates back to Wolman (1965) but the usual approach to urban metabolism either investigates energy equivalents or more broadly flows of mass, in particular water, materials and nutrients (Kennedy et al., 2011).”
Toward a Resource‐Efficient Built Environment: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model (2017, background): “Newman (1999, 220) achieves a significant step forward by including livability measures in an “extended metabolism model,” with indicators of health, education, housing, employment, income, and leisure and community activities (Kennedy et al. 2011, p. 1968).”
Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review (2016, background): “It is a rapidly maturing area of study that continues to see growing interest from governments as a benchmarking method of urban environmental performance and methodology to quantify the environmental changes imparted by an urban design or policy decision (Kennedy et al. 2010; Clift et al. 2015).”
A 40-year review of food–energy–water nexus literature and its application to the urban scale (2019, background): “Numerous studies suggested thatUMaccounting could aid in developing andmonitoring urban environmental policy (Wolman 1965, Newman 1999, Hendriks et al 2000, Baccini and Brunner 2001, Kennedy et al 2011).”
Urban energy systems within the transition to sustainable development. A research agenda for urban metabolism (2017, methodology): “Various authors have analyzed selected urban areas (Kennedy et al., 2011; Zhang, 2013) for a review of some of these, and some over time.”
A Material Flow Accounting Case Study of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area using the Urban Metabolism Analyst Model (2014, positive): “First, it is clear from the literature (e.g., Kennedy et al. 2011; Niza et al. 2009; Barles 2010; Weisz and Steinberger 2010) that urban MFA studies lack a unified methodology.”
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism (2012, positive): “While the first followed Odum to describe urban metabolism in terms of energy equivalents, the second focused on new approaches to account for the flows of materials and energy in the city (Kennedy et al. 2011).”