CyberSEES: Type 2: Data Integration for Urban Metabolism

城市新陈代谢(UM)是一个术语，涵盖了城市及其居民的基本功能：物质和能量的流动和转换、人员的流动、商业、资本的创造、设施的维护和更新以及服务的产生和使用。为了研究UM，需要对大量的异质数据进行访问、集成和分析。该项目将调查城市管理框架的可行性，该框架包括：(1)对城市管理趋势应用适当的衡量标准，以确定体制转变是否预示着城市国家的可持续程度更高或更低；(2)确定和整合城市系统在其生命周期阶段和不同地理尺度上的投入和产出的分类数据。跨学科小组由六名调查人员(一名计算机科学家、一名土木工程师、一名城市规划师、一名环境工程师、一名医生和一名公共卫生科学家)和四名国际合作者(三名计算机科学家和一名环境工程师)组成。更广泛的影响包括提供独特的机会，教育学生在各种社会文化背景下分析和设计可持续城市区域。此外，通过揭示物质流动与环境、社会、健康和经济影响之间的联系，这项研究旨在证明城市规划的综合系统方法的迫切需要，而不是像目前的范式那样专注于管道末端和危机后管理。

Urban metabolism (UM) is a term that captures the essential functions of cities and their inhabitants: flows and transformations of materials and energy, the movement of people, commerce, the creation of capital, the maintenance and renewal of facilities, and the generation and use of services. In order to study UM, large amounts of heterogeneous data need to be accessed, integrated, and analyzed. This project will investigate the feasibility of a framework for UM that encompasses: (1) The application of appropriate metrics to UM trends to establish whether regime shifts are indicative of greater or lesser sustainable urban states; (2) The identification and integration of disaggregated data for the inputs and outputs of urban systems through their life cycle stages and at various geographic scales. The interdisciplinary team consists of six investigators (a computer scientist, a civil engineer, an urban planner, an environmental engineer, a medical doctor, and a public health scientist) and of four international collaborators (three computer scientists and one environmental engineer). Broader impacts include providing unique opportunities to educate students in the analysis and design of sustainable urban regions in a variety of socio-cultural contexts. Further, by revealing the connections between physical flows and environmental, social, health, and economic impacts, this research aims to demonstrate the critical need of an integrated systems approach to urban planning, instead of focusing on the end-of-pipe and post-crisis management, as the current paradigm.