A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
To benefit from the analogies with ecosystems and organisms, which have been rigorously studied by researchers, it is first necessary to understand the relationship between the two. On the one hand, a city resembles an ecosystem because it is composed of multiple components (e.g., sectors such as the manufacturing industry and agriculture) that resemble living organisms because they exchange materials, energy, and information both with each other and with their environment. Ecosystems don’t really have a metabolism, but do have flows of materials and energy that resemble the metabolic flows in an organism. On the other hand, cities are not living bodies with a beating heart, bones, muscles, and nerves, and they don’t have a simple metabolism that provides materials and energy to different parts of the body.
To benefit from the analogies with ecosystems and organisms, which have been rigorously studied by researchers, it is first necessary to understand the relationship between the two. On the one hand, a city resembles an ecosystem because it is composed of multiple components (e.g., sectors such as the manufacturing industry and agriculture) that resemble living organisms because they exchange materials, energy, and information both with each other and with their environment. Ecosystems don’t really have a metabolism, but do have flows of materials and energy that resemble the metabolic flows in an organism. On the other hand, cities are not living bodies with a beating heart, bones, muscles, and nerves, and they don’t have a simple metabolism that provides materials and energy to different parts of the body.
Connotations of Urban Metabolism
Zhang, Yan (author)
Urban Metabolism ; Chapter: 1 ; 3-27
2023-02-08
25 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
The Connotations and Eco-efficiency of Urban Residential District
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007
European cities, international relations and some popular connotations
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2022
Connotations of institutions: implications for governing natural resources
| Springer Verlag | 2021
Development of Connotations in Land Consolidation in China
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005
Garden Planting and its Cultural Connotations in Suzhou's Classical Gardens
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010