Abstract
Ecology has been used as a metaphor for industries and cities with the goal of creating better systems. The field of industrial ecology incorporates the principles of ecology into industrial network design, but this field often analyzed industries in a vacuum. Similarly, ideas such as urban metabolism and infrastructure ecology have been applied to cities in an effort to understand them and design them as ecosystems. These fields look at the high level of a city, without the finer detail found in both industrial ecology and natural ecology research. This paper proposes a combined urban-industrial ecosystem to create better biologically-inspired industrial and urban networks, discussing the guiding principles of this type of ecosystem in addition to the form of analysis to be done on these systems. Specifically for these types of network, Ecological Network Analysis is used to evaluate them. The construction of urban-industrial ecosystems and the evaluation with Ecological Network Analysis are shown through an industrial case study that compares different configurations of water sources for a manufacturing plant and nearby city.
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