This website attempts to group together tools and publications related to the metabolism of cities or urban metabolism (UM). The principal sections are the following:
This is the first MOOC provided by the GI-REC (Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities). The GI-REC is a cooperation platform offered by UN Environment to connect different institutions that are using systems approach (and specifically urban metabolism) towards building low-carbon, resilient and resource efficient cities. This MOOC is produced and run for you by Metabolism of Cities, in partnership with the League of Cities of the Philippines and UN Environment.
Four separate parties (the Municipality of The Hague, Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and The Hague University of Applied Sciences) have joined forces in a new partnership. They aim to...
This project is funded by the Flanders Region/Vlaanderen Circulair (in the framework of the call for project Circular Cities) and is collaboration with Université Libre de Bruxelles.Our project is to...
Metabolism of Cities has started a presentation series! In these presentations our new MultipliCity project will be shared with different groups. This first round of presentations will include a number...
From January-March 2018, Metabolism of Cities has run a Stakeholders Initiative with the topic of urban metabolism interviews. During the ISIE/ISSST 2017 Conference in Chicago, various members of the...
This website is an open source initiative launched in August 2014 as 'MFA Tools'. It was launched with the purpose of:
In January 2016 the website was renamed to Metabolism of Cities, to reflect the broadening scope to other methodologies.
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