ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the theoretical and conceptual approach summarized as Urban Political Ecology (UPE) and specifically its aspect of urban metabolism. Specifically, we argue that in Toronto, during the past decade, something we call “metabolic metropolitics” has taken hold. Largely in spite of, or in the back of dramatic neoliberalizing processes, which the urban region underwent during that time, there has been a process of “roll-out-environmentalism”. This development has had particular visibility in those areas of urban society-nature interactivity, where a massive physical redistribution of material flows in the urban fabric has taken place, often with a concomitant change in the mode of social regulation that accompanies these flows.
