Circular Metabolism Podcast

On this episode of the Circular Metabolism Podcast, we were very excited to catch up with David Wachsmuth during the conference Brussels Ecosystem. David is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance at McGill University, where he is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Urban Planning and an Associate Member in the Department of Geography. He is an urban political economist whose research interests include city and regional governance, urban sustainability, housing policy, social theory, and the politics of urban public space. In 2012, David wrote an influential paper in the urban metabolism realm entitled: Three ecologies: Urban Metabolism and the Society-Nature Opposition.During this episode, we discuss how the urban metabolism metaphor was used over the years and it is a not necessarily a fleshed out method but a working metaphor to describe the relationships between urban areas and the environment.We take a closer look at how urban political ecology helps us to understand what happens when flow