IntroductionNowadays, urban metabolism (UM) is believed to provide new insights for more sustainable resource management in cities and their hinterlands. UM studies, however, focalize chiefly on quantitative resource input and output (e.g. energy, materials) and tend to neglect the element of space and the qualitative characteristics of the urban landscape. This paper explores the use of UM as a basis for planning and design, focusing on the design process and on landscape configuration, in an attempt to bridge the gap between such an approach and the perceptions of urban inhabitants.Case descriptionTwo case studies on the metropolitan scale based on UM quantification which aim to develop projects that can improve urban sustainability are analyzed: the International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam and the Amsterdam Urban Pulse project. Subsequently, De Ceuvel is explored, an experimental neighborhood in Amsterdam that deployed the UM approach to develop a participatory design and implementation process.Discussion and EvaluationThe method consists in a case study analysis centered on field work, document analysis, and semi-structured interviews with the designers involved, while the inhabitants’ points of view are also polled on the neighborhood scale.ConclusionsThe key results highlight how the UM approach can be integrated with spatial design in two different ways, according to the scales implicated. On the metropolitan scale, UM provides a means of identifying key locations and proposing interventions that can improve a city’s global metabolism. On the scale of the neighborhood, however, the UM approach aims to close the energy and material cycles on the design plot, though without necessarily connecting the neighborhood to the city network.

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定量分析与城市景观之间的城市代谢规划与设计方法

简介如今，城市新陈代谢 (UM) 被认为为城市及其腹地更可持续的资源管理提供了新的见解。然而，UM 研究主要关注定量的资源输入和输出（例如能源、材料），而往往忽视空间元素和城市景观的定性特征。本文探讨了使用 UM 作为规划和设计的基础，重点关注设计过程和景观配置，试图弥合这种方法与城市居民的看法之间的差距。 案例描述两个关于大都市的案例研究分析了基于 UM 量化的规模，旨在开发可以提高城市可持续性的项目：鹿特丹国际建筑双年展和阿姆斯特丹城市脉冲项目。随后，探索了 De Ceuvel，阿姆斯特丹的一个实验社区，该社区部署了 UM 方法来开发参与式设计和实施过程。讨论和评估该方法包括以实地工作、文件分析和半结构化访谈为中心的案例研究分析参与的设计师，而居民的观点也在邻里尺度上进行了调查。结论主要结果突出了 UM 方法如何根据所涉及的尺度以两种不同的方式与空间设计相结合。在大都市范围内，UM 提供了一种确定关键位置并提出可以改善城市全球新陈代谢的干预措施的方法。然而，在社区规模上，UM 方法旨在关闭设计图上的能量和材料循环，