Wang and Lim test whether urban metabolism has actually entered resilience practice rather than assuming that conceptual compatibility guarantees operational uptake. Reviewing thirty-five strategies from the 100 Resilient Cities programme, they classify the presence of metabolic terms, frameworks and tools and relate these to socioeconomic considerations. Their most consequential finding is the uneven translation of metabolic knowledge into policy: only a minority of strategies display comprehensive integration, while others use metabolic concepts partially or not at all. The methodological strength lies in converting an abstract interdisciplinary relationship into a comparative diagnostic of planning documents. Urban metabolism contributes where it provides evidence-based structure, benchmarks, spatially precise intervention points and opportunities for stakeholder coordination. The paper therefore distinguishes rhetorical resilience from analytically grounded resilience. Its wider intellectual bridge joins industrial ecology with policy studies and evidence-based planning, showing that the political significance of metabolic thinking depends on whether flows become actionable criteria inside decision systems rather than remaining descriptive representations of urban resource use.
URBANISM MEETS ART