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19 - Conceptualizing Urban Systems for Ecologic Sustainability Assessments: Case Study of the Stockholm Royal Seaport City District

from Part IV - Focal Points of Urban Sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2020

By
Ulf Ranhagen  and
Björn Frostell
Edited by
Claudia R. Binder ,
Romano Wyss  and
Emanuele Massaro
Claudia R. Binder
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Romano Wyss
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Emanuele Massaro
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Summary

Ecologic sustainability assessments are of increasing importance in understanding the physical resource metabolism of urban systems. In Stockholm, the so-called Hammarby Model visualised important synergies in waste and energy flows in the Hammarby Sjöstad urban district and supported improved metabolic thinking. Following the success of this approach, the Eco-Cycle Model 2.0 for the Royal Seaport was developed in cooperation between KTH University and the City of Stockholm. The Eco-Cycle Model 2.0 can take account of more dimensions than the Hammarby Model, including overall and detailed descriptions of resource flows in a lifecycle perspective. Important starting points for the model were (1) global and local challenges concerning the use of resources, with specific relevance for urban development, (2) available models which visualise functions, resource flows, and resource synergies and (3) approaches to material, energy, and water accounting. The primary objective of the model is to show important connections and synergies between resource flows in a modern urban area. Secondary objectives that can be fulfilled in the long term are: to be a tool for the monitoring and follow-up of environmental objectives, to serve as a dynamic tool for the analysis of resource flows, and to contribute to improved urban planning.

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urban metabolismeco-cycle modelphysical resource flowsvisualizationphysical resource accounts
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Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems , pp. 460 - 479
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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