Analysis and Evaluation of the Ecological Restoration of the City with an Emphasis on Urban Metabolism ()
ABSTRACT
It would not
be far-fetched to say that people’s lives depend on their environment and its quality.
With growing urbanization of this dependence is growing increasingly urban environment.
Urbanization not only balances economic and social development in the cities but
also stirs the regional ecological imbalances and the natural areas. In addition
to these problems, there is disruption of water, air, soil and environment built
on imbalances between urban areas and the lack of social vitality and frustration.
All cities, especially metropolitan with developing economies face to uncertainty
in terms of health, environment and quality of life. This article utilizes the ecological
and environmental issues and integrates it with urban metabolism approach to the
study’s revival of urban ecology, something that results in enhanced quality of
life for citizens. This research is the theoretical and analytical method. In the
research process of this study, related domestic and foreign literature subsequently
of traditional and electronic library resources, books and articles published in
journals have been used. According to the type of research in this study, descriptive
analysis was performed. Based on findings of this study, urban ecology is a tool
to control and guide of urban growth and activities in a way to improve quality
of urban environment. Applying urban ecology in designing cities has provided opportunities
to create practical ecological systems. By using them, natural process, human activities
and urban environment could be combined. Moreover, urban metabolism as an indicator
of urban sustainability and a part of urban ecology includes two main related and
non-contra-dictory approaches of odum and MFA. Due to difficulties which modern
cities face to, benefiting and applying these approaches seem vital.
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Lotfi, A. and Daneshpour, S. (2016) Analysis and Evaluation of the Ecological Restoration of the City with an Emphasis on Urban Metabolism.
Open Journal of Ecology,
6, 377-386. doi:
10.4236/oje.2016.67036.