The City as a System: Metabolic Design for New Urban Forms and Functions – Redefining Urban Sustainability

Explore The City as a System: Metabolic Design for New Urban Forms and Functions, a groundbreaking guide to rethinking cities as living organisms with metabolic flows, needs, and challenges. This book argues that solving contemporary urban issues requires more than focusing on visible architecture — designers must study the invisible systems behind the urban fabric: resource use, energy, materials, waste, and performance. Through essays, research and case‑studies, it outlines how sustainable urban development can arise from understanding and redesigning the “urban metabolism.” A must‑read for architects, urban planners, designers, environmentalists, and anyone interested in sustainable cities and systemic thinking about urban life.