Abstract
Urban Metabolism is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge which investigates drivers of resource demand in cities through the quantification of energy, materials, water, and nutrient flows. Cities are studied as open systems whose metabolism is the result of the interactions with other—close or remote—anthropogenic systems, and the natural environment.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Baerten, N. (2019). Napkin futures: Fragments of future worlds. Journal of Futures Studies, 23(4), 117–122. https://doi.org/10.6531/JFS.201906_23(4).0012
Bai, X. (2016). Eight energy and material flow characteristics of urban ecosystems. Ambio, 45, 819–830. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0785-6
Duvigneaud, P., & Denayeyer-De Smet, S. (1977). L'Ecosystéme Urbs—L'Ecosystéme Urbain Bruxellois. In: P. Duvigneaud, P. Kestemont (eds.), Productivité biologique en Belgique. SCOPE Travaux de la Section belge du Programme Biologique International. Paris: Duculot. pp. 581–597.Duvigneaud, P., Brichard, C., Denayer-De Smet, S. and Lejoly, S. (1986) Les composantes de l'écosystème Charleroi et les prospectives de développement socio-économique régional (étude préliminaire). Brussels: Université libre de Bruxelles.
Galan, J., & Perrotti, D. (2019) Incorporating metabolic thinking into regional planning. Urban Planning, 4(1), 152–171. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v4i1.1549.
Gandy, M. (2018). Cities in deep time. City, 22(1), 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434289
Guattari, F. (2000). The three ecologies (2000). Trans. I. Pindar and P. Sutton. London and New Brunswick, NJ.: The Athlone Press.
Kennedy, C., Pincetl, S., & Bunje, P. (2011). The study of urban metabolism and its applications to urban planning and design. Environmental Pollution, 159(8–9), 1965–1973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.10.022
Isla Urbana. (2019). Rain For All Water sustainability for Mexico. Available at: https://islaurbana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IslaUrbana_Doc_Prensa.pdf. Accessed 06 Jan 2021.
Lyotard, J. F. (1984). The Postmodern Condition. A Report on Knowledge. Trans. G. Bennington and B. Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
McFarlane, C., Silver, J., & Truelove, Y. (2016). Cities within cities: Intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai. Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography, 38(9), 1393–1417. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1243386
Perrotti, D. (2012). La ruralité urbaine: De plateforme d’expérimentation à lieu de la mise en scène d’un nouveau modèle de durabilité: Les territoires périurbains du Parc Agricole Sud de Milan à l’épreuve de l’Expo Milan 2015. Environnement Urbain / Urban Environment, 6, 100–117. https://doi.org/10.7202/1013715ar
Perrotti, D. (2019). Evaluating urban metabolism assessment methods and knowledge transfer between scientists and practitioners: a combined framework for supporting practice-relevant research. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), 1458–1479. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319832611
Perrotti, D. (2020). Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers and the research agenda ahead. In P. Verma, P. Singh, A. S. Raghubanshi, & S. Rishikesh (eds.) Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems. Elsevier, Cambridge, MA, pp.17–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820730-7.00002-1.
Perrotti, D., Hyde, K., & Otero Peña, D. (2020). Can water systems foster commoning practices? Analysing leverages for self-organization in urban water commons as social–ecological systems. Sustainability Science, 15(3), 781–795. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00782-1
Perrotti, D., & Iuorio, O. (2019). Green infrastructure in the space of flows: an urban metabolism approach to bridge environmental performance and user’s wellbeing. In: F. Lemes de Oliveira , & I. Mell (eds.), Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods, Springer, p. 265–277. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_18.
Perrotti, D., & Stremke, S. (2018). Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47(4), 678–694. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808318797131
Saletta, M., Kruger, A., Primoratz, T., Barnett, A., van Gelder, T., & Horn, R. E. (2020). The role of narrative in collaborative reasoning and intelligence analysis: A case study. PLoS ONE, 15(1): e0226981.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226981.
Wolman, A. (1965). The metabolism of cities”. Scientific American, 213(3), 179–188.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Perrotti, D. (2022). Studying the Metabolism of Resilient Communities: Urban Practices, Micronarratives, and Their Agency. In: Carta, M., Perbellini, M.R., Lara-Hernandez, J.A. (eds) Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-85846-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-85847-6
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)