Metabolism of the Anthroposphere, second edition: Analysis, Evaluation, Design - Paperbackby Peter Baccini (Author), Paul H. Brunner (Author) An overview of the cultural evolution of material flows and stocks with an emphasis on the design of metabolic processes in urban systems. Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban