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Data visualisations

In October-December 2016, Metabolism of Cities ran a project around data visualisations. The goal was to explore ways in which information can be illustrated, take stock of work in this field, host online discussions and publish blog posts. Below you will see the list of the around 100 data visualisations that were collected.

Why visualise urban metabolism data

When we think about urban metabolism and other urban environmental assessments, we often think about numbers, data analysis, formulas and tables. While we may be very familiar with our own case study, it is often very difficult to share the relevance of our results with other researchers or with the general public and to synthesise all this amount of knowledge into something easy to grasp. This is one of the main reasons why researchers use visualisation techniques. Visualising data can not only enable to summarise big amounts of numbers, but it can also make it easier to share them and use them as policy instruments.

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Many more data visualisations exist and Metabolism of Cities wants to make them accessible in one central space. You can help by submitting more visualisations through the Resources Task Force!

The urban ecosystem of Brussels

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Material Flow Austria

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Imports into Hamburg

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One of the first urban metabolism illustrations

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Glass packaging in New Jersey

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Lisbon material balance

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Urban metabolism of Toronto vs Hong Kong

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In-use copper stocks in Cape Town

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Hong Kong's material flows

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Toronto household mass and energy flows

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Abbreviated Urban Metabolism for Rio de Janeiro

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HDI/Population/Population Density of 155 cities

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The urban ecosystem of Kenitra

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The urban ecosystem of Charleroi

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MetaFlow diagram for food

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General overview of Brussels urban metabolism in 2011

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Representation of a sustainable metabolism for the Toronto Port Lands

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Final energy consumption and GHG emissions by sector for Brussels Capital Region in 2010

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Consumption of direct and primary energy for three urbanisation forms in Kenitra

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The Urban Metabolism of Brussels in 2010

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Inter-regional flows of embodied carbon emissions

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Interactive Urban Metabolism diagram of Paris

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Urban Metabolism of Bangkok for the year 2000

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Flows of embodied GHG emissions related to Melbourne

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Traffic Flow Change in Hong Kong

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Nitrogen flows within different western European agrarian systems

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The urban metabolism of Rennes

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Abbreviated Urban Metabolism for Beijing

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Spatial distribution of the material stocked in buildings in Japan

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Analyzing spatial patterns of urban carbon metabolism: A case study in Beijing, China

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The urban metabolism of London in 2000

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Melbourne Urban Forest

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The material balance of Ile-de-France

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Changing global trade and the digital revolution

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Abatement curve to reduce or prevent GHG emission in the United States

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Global anthropogenic metallurgical aluminium cycle in 2009

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Simplified value chain of a passenger vehicle

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In-use product stocks drive anthropogenic material cycles and provide functions or services demanded by modern human society

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The urban metabolism of Geneva in 2000

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The copper balance of Taipei in 2009

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A comparative visualization of urban bike mobility

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Abel Wolman's Metabolism of Cities

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The metabolic flows for Sydney, Australia in 1990

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The material turnover of primitive man in his private household

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The urban metabolism of the Toronto Port Lands

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Elements according to relative abundance in the Earth's crust

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Periodic Table of Elements - Part 2

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Imports and exports of Ile-de-France

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Electricity consumption in Hong Kong in 2010

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Los Angeles County Energy Atlas

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How Populations and Vehicle Densities affect Air Quality in India

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Tracing the global path of hazardous garbage

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Bilan de flux de matière pour la Région de Bretagne 2011

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Resource and waste flows for 27 megacities in 2011

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The Material Footprint of Global Consumption

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The Urban Metabolism of Rotterdam (flow of goods)

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Absolute and Per square foot of Residential and Commerical Energy use in Los Angeles

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Bangalore Urban Metabolism Project (BUMP) 2011

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Interactive Visualization and Measurement of Urban Areas 2012

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Material Flow Analysis of the Italian Economy 1994

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Flows and stocks of goods in the anthroposphere of Vienna, Austria

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Global iron stocks (in use and reserves)

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How much is left?

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Ideal Urban Metabolism

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Cities as urban mines

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Electricity and natural gas use in Amsterdam (open data)

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Direct Material Consumption and Water use in Lisbon

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The urban metabolism of Plaine Commune in 2012

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Six maps that show the anatomy of America's vast infrastructure

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Word Map

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Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

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Water flows in Amsterdam

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Cape Town Population Density

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Metabolic pattern in Shanghai

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Metabolic network model for urban carbon metabolism

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Urban metabolism methodologies and scales

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Hong Kong's material flows in 1978

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Material flow diagram from 1969

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Water consumption in Los Angeles

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Urban metabolism methodologies

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Italia Post-Metropoli Atlante

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Major agglomerations of the world

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Power from the sun 1953

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Cities that think like planets: complexity, resilience, and innovation in hybrid ecosystems

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Los Angeles Net Solar Potential

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Urban Metabolism: Metro Manila, Phillippines

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Urban Metabolism: City of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Urban Metabolism: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Material flow accounting of an Indian village

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The energy metabolism of the Lombardy region in northern Italy

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Lombardy region, Italy: energy consumption in the agriculture sector

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Metropolitan Toronto energy flow Sankey diagram for 1988

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The Flavor Connection

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The Vast Majority of Missing Workers Are Under Age 55

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Live Wind Map

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Wood Building Technology Over Time: A Partially Comparative Timeline

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Where we donate vs. disease that kill us

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Spatially explicit material stock analysis of buildings in Eastern China metropoles

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