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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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