Resource Driven Urban Metabolism: How can metabolic scaling affect urban design

City scale projects are complex multi variable problems and have previously been addressed using a variety of organisational principles, whether it be the infrastructural grid used by Ludwig Hilbersheimer in his project "Hochhaussatdt" or the spinal organisation of the Tokyo master plan done by Kenzo Tange and the Metabolism Movement. This project strays from traditional methods of structuring a city and investigates a novel self engineered anticipatory model, which focuses on the use of generative and genetic algorithms to develop a new associative system to develop coastal cities in arid climates. The system functions as a negative feedback loop, analysing existing conditions, and by a series of mathematical functions, projecting the new growth patterns for major components of a city, such as building envelopes, road networks, canal networks and public space distribution as a result of the cities internally generated resources.