Theses

In this section, a collection of ongoing and past urban metabolism-related theses can be found. It gives insights into the topics that students work on and the universities and programmes they are connected to. This way it is easy to get in touch with them to foster an exchange and support each other.

The Metabolism of Cities website is still relatively young, so the list is slowly growing, but everyone who works on urban metabolism studies is encouraged to submit their project here!

Title and institution	Researcher	Status
Applying urban metabolism indicator framework as planning support for sustainable development Delft University of Technology	Yan Song	ongoing Start: 2016
Capture and Control of Material Flows and Stocks in Urban Housing - Based on the Case Study of the Housing Industry in Munich-Freiham Technical University of Munich - Institute of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building	Matthias Heinrich	finished
Data processing in the study of territorial metabolism Université de Strasbourg, Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (ADEME)	Benoit Ribon	ongoing
Differential Urban Metabolism of Cape Town: understanding the resource implications of widespread informal settlement upgrading. Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University	Paul Currie	ongoing
Dynamic Material Flow Analysis of Steel and Aluminum in Europe IRT Matériaux Métallurgie et Procédés; Université de Technologie de Troyes	Daryna Panasiuk	finished
Dynamics of the Urban Metabolism École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	Joao Meirelles	ongoing
Feasibility study of an urban MFA in Cape Town, South Africa University of Cape Town	Paul Hoekman	finished 2013-2015
Feeding the Urban Metabolism within Planetary Boundaries HafenCity University Hamburg	Lisa Harseim	finished 2017-2019
Hybrid life-cycle-assessment-urban-metabolism model as a framework for quantifying the contributions of urban agriculture to the sustainability of urban food systems Technical University of Denmark	Benjamin Goldstein	finished 2013-2016
Material and energy flows through the urban (eco)system of San Luis Potosí, México UASLP (México) & TH-Köln (Germany)	Lucia Benavides	finished 2017
Meaningful Circular Metabolism TU Delft	Brian Nap	finished 2016-2017
Nature-based solutions for long-lasting sustainability of urban contexts Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) / University of Bordeaux, France (UBF)	Javier Babí Almenar	ongoing
Socio-nature Transformations in Establishing Urban Sustainability through Symbiotic and Closed-loop Models of Material Metabolism: A Critical Historical and Socio-political Exploration of Urban Symbiosis in Kawasaki, Japan University College London, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment	Khalid Tebe	finished 2018
The drivers of the urban metabolism Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Franziska Meinherz	ongoing
The urban metabolism of an informal economy University College London	Louise Guibrunet	finished
Towards sustainable cities: A multicriteria assessment framework for studying urban metabolism Parthenope University of Naples	Oleksandr Galychyn	ongoing 2018-2022

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