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Introduction

Welcome to the fifth edition of the newsletter of the Metabolism of Cities website. Some very exciting news in this newsletter including the co-organisation of three Urban Metabolism Masterclasses and the voting process for our Data Visualization collection. Remember, our website is an open source initiative that is open to contribution by anyone. Feel free to share your thoughts and be in touch if you want to help out improving our website! Also make sure to Follow us on Twitter!

Quick Status Update

Number of publications: 388
Public research projects: 11
OMAT datasets: 40 private & 4 public datasets
Total lines of code: 21,087
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Co-organisation of 3 masterclasses

As part of our Stakeholders Initiative, we are proud to announce that Metabolism of Cities will be co-organising (with OVAM, .Fabric, Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij (VMM/MIRA), and Team Vlaams Bouwmeester) three masterclasses on urban metabolism. The masterclasses are entitled Designing With Flows: Towards an Urban-Metabolic Agenda for a Circular Future and will take place in Brussels on the 08/12/2016, 12/01/2017, 02/02/2017.

For more information and registration click here.

Data visualization project - Vote!

There are many ways to visualize your results in urban metabolism research. However, it is a challenge to design a map or diagram that is clear and appealing at the same time, and that captures the full extent of your dataset. Back in October we launched our Stakeholders Initiative and invite everyone to join the discussion. Data Visualizations will was our first topic of discussion, running from October-December 2016. In this period, we include one data visualization every day (we now have 67 of them see Data Visualization portal).

From January 1st to Jan 20th we will open the voting process in order to find out which are the best urban metabolism visualization. You can choose you three favourites and we will give a Metabolism of Cities certificate for the three winners! So make sure to vote!

New blog posts

We now have our own blog! We have added three posts in our blog and expect to see more in the future! Our blog posts will be written by our own team members, but they can also be authored by guests, so if you have something on your mind, please feel free to share!

Read our blog here
Contact us if you would like to write a guest blog

Call for assistance

There are more things than the ones we can do ourselves! Why don't you join our efforts and help us make useful tools and information around urban metabolism available to the public! Here are a couple items on our wish list where we can use your support:

Extracting data from publications and adding it to our global urban metabolism dataset.
Creation of a list of relevant journals, and preferably some background information about what kind of urban metabolism publications are covered there.
Revision of our collections by an expert and support adding missing publications.
Testing and feedback of our OMAT tool, especially for use that differs from urban Eurostat-based MFAs

Also feel free to come up with other improvements for our website. Constructive criticism is always welcome! You can view our full wish list here: Metabolism of Cities Wishlist.