Governance of urban metabolism

Smart Urban Metabolism: Towards a Real-Time Understanding of the Energy and Material Flows of a City and Its Citizens

Journal of Urban Technology ◽

10.1080/10630732.2014.954899 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 65-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Hossein Shahrokni ◽

David Lazarevic ◽

Nils Brandt

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Urban Metabolism ◽

Material Flows ◽

Energy And Material Flows

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An integrated, multi-scale approach for modelling urban metabolism changes as a means for assessing urban sustainability

Sustainable Cities and Society ◽

10.1016/j.scs.2020.102695 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 67 ◽

pp. 102695

Author(s):

Meidad Kissinger ◽

Zeev Stossel

Keyword(s):

Urban Sustainability ◽

Urban Metabolism ◽

Multi Scale

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Sustainable Urban Metabolism

Urban Policy and Research ◽

10.1080/08111146.2014.967443 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 123-125 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lavinia Poruschi

Keyword(s):

Urban Metabolism

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Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People’s Subaltern Strategy and Informality: Societalization, Metabolism, and Classes With(out) Housing

Critical Sociology ◽

10.1177/08969205211020502 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089692052110205

Author(s):

Mahito Hayashi

Keyword(s):

Urban Studies ◽

Urban Form ◽

Homeless People ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Theoretical Explanation ◽

Urban Metabolism ◽

Class Relations ◽

Housing Consumption ◽

Urban Theory ◽

Critical Urban Theory

This paper aims to expand critical urban theory and spatialized political economy through developing a new, broad-based theoretical explanation of homelessness and the informal housing of the deprived in public spaces. After reviewing an important debate in geography, it systematicallyreasserts the relevance of class-related concepts in urban studies and, mobilizing post-determinist notions, it shows how a class-driven theory can inform the emergence of appropriating/differentiating/reconciliating agency from the material bedrock of urban metabolism and its society-integrating effect (societalization). The author weaves an urban diagnostic web of concepts by situating city-dwellers—classes with(out) housing—at the material level of metabolism and then in the sociopolitical dynamic of regulation, finding in the two realms urban class relations (enlisted within societalization) and agency formation (for reregulation, subaltern strategies, and potential rapprochement). The housing classes are retheorized as a composite category of hegemonic dwellers who enjoy housing consumption and whose metabolism thus appears as the normative consumption of public/private spaces. Homeless people are understood as a subaltern class who lacks housing consumption and whose metabolism can produce “housing” out of public spaces, in opposition to a hegemonic urban form practiced by the housing classes. These urban class relations breed homeless–housed divides and homeless regulation, and yet allow for agency’s creative appropriation/differentiation/reconciliation. This paper avoids crude dichotomy, but it argues that critical urban theory can productively use this way of theorization for examining post-determinist urban lifeworlds in relation to the relative fixity of urban form, metabolic circuits, and class relations.

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