ENV DES 4C Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Urban Metabolism, Urban Heat Island, Groundwater Pollution

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Design
• Course: ENV DES 4C
• Professor: Kristina Hill

Document Summary

Changing metabolism of cities: data from urban metabolism studies from 8 metro areas across 5 countries, 1965- present, data assembled & compated, results: Increasing per/capita metabolism w/ respect to: energy, wastewater, materials, even though one city showed increasing efficiency & water use of the. 1990"s: metabolic processes threatening city sustainability, altered ground water level, exhaustion of local materials, accumulation of toxic materials, summer heat islands e) Irregular nutrient accumulation: key, understand accumulation or storage processes, growth is part of metabolism, why study urban metabolism, spatial relationships w/ surrounding lands, global resource webs, traffic, pollution. Identify critical processes in urban metabolism that threaten sustainable dev of cities. Previous metabolism studies: brussels, belgium 1977, quantify urban biomass, quantify organic discharge, hong kong 1978, outflow/inflow of construction materials, outflow/inflow of finished goods, hong kong 2001, per capita food, water & material consumption increased.