Urban metabolism redux

Matthew Gandy

Urban Studies, 2025, vol. 62, issue 8, 1483-1511

Abstract: Metabolic readings of urban space point in at least four different analytical directions: the organicist emphasis on cities and their agricultural hinterlands; the diagrammatic city of modelling and trophic imaginaries, extending to interest in material flow analysis, industrial metabolism, and neo-Luhmannian conceptions of socio-metabolic transitions; the neo-Marxian concern with metabolic rift and evolving intersections between capital, the human body, and a variety of material infrastructures; and the more recent interest in metabolic densities, occluded pathways, and multispecies metabolic entanglements. I suggest that an alternative conceptual synthesis might allow for a more embodied, multi-subjectival, and historically situated reading of urban metabolism.

Keywords: metabolic rift; multispecies urbanism; socio-metabolic transitions; urban metabolism; 代谢断裂; å¤šç‰©ç§ åŸŽå¸‚åŒ–; ç¤¾ä¼šä»£è°¢è½¬å ˜; 城市代谢 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980251322663

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