Uploaded on 2016-06-29 by Alejandro Juan Pineda Sánchez

(I was living in Osaka the last year, so all the pictures i will upload of this city are taken by me) This is a picture of one little part of the Osaka port. Osaka is a very industrial city, and its port is completely dedicated to the production, logistic and storage of industrial resoureces. But at the same time is a very old city, and has a very strong culture. For all of this, it is very easy to identify relevant stocks and flows in the city: 1_The most important flows are, i think, the exchange of industrial resources, the import o electric enery and the flows of people (many young people come to work to Osaka, and of course a lot of tourists). As stocks, of course the most important are the old-cultural stocks, like the Osaka Castle and a lot of temples in the city with hundreds or thousands of years, but also the pieces of the museums (like the national museum), and, uncommonly i think, some business companies. This last, usually, are seen as flows i think: the business companies go and leave a city; but in this case, there are a lot of business companies very ingrained in Osaka, with decades of old, and in some cases they are the image of the city (and its rivality with Tokyo). The Osaka university could be also be seen as an stock. 2_In this way, Osaka generates 1.080 billions of dollars annualy exportating products (flows), more than a lot of whole countries. Also, about 8.000 people (flow) arrive every month to Osaka searching for job. Thousands of tourists (flows) also come to see cultural goods (stocks) of the city, generating a lot of money (flows). 3_For the future, it would be beneficial for the city to have a bigger stock of natural places an green areas, actually very poor, for making the city more resilient if there is an industrial crisis (a change similar of the city of Bilbao in Spain with the industrial crisis of 1970s: the city renewed its image to be more attractive, increasing the flow of tourists and reducing its dependence on industry).