| Summary: | Can a metabolic perspective provide new narratives about modern urban development? In this article, we propose to retrace the joint history of the Gruber brewery and its territorial context. By bringing together different territorial scales, the factory asserted itself as one of the most important industrial breweries at the turn of the 20th century in Alsace. This occurred alongside changes in the materializations and uses of the suburb in which it was established. Through a socio-material study of its metabolism, the aim is to understand how the Gruber factory characterizes a double transformation process of its environment, both in terms of consumption (raw materials, labor force) and production (uses, sociabilities and spatialities).
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