Desvaux, Pierre <br/><br/>
Urban metabolism: Understanding the city through its flows 

 -  2022.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Cities can be studied through the matter and energy flows that go through them. The metabolic approach, a concept borrowed from biology, sheds light on several features of cities: their materiality, the source of their wealth, their links to other territories, as well as inequalities and power conflicts in urban space.