Urban Energy Transition

This compendium of 29 cities is a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers, among others, carbon emissions policy and practice; the role of embodied energy; urban thermal performance planning; building efficiency services; energy poverty alleviation efforts; renewable community support networks; aspects of household level bio-fuel markets; urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives; innovations in individual transport systems; global urban mobility trends; implications of intelligent energy networks and distributed energy supply; and the case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles. Presented are practical and the subject of technology, economics, design, culture and society, presenting perspectives.

Urban energy transition: an introduction
1 Principles and drivers
* Solar City: reconnecting energy generation and social logic of solar power
* Urbanization, increasing wealth and energy transitions: developing Asia Pacific economies
* Undoing atmospheric harm: civil action to shrink the carbon footprint
* Direct versus embodied energy: the need for urban lifestyle transitions
* Energy, development and sustainable monetary systems
2 Policy, practice and dynamics
* Energy and urban environmental regimes
* Climate change and cities: the climate friendly future
* City energy networking in Europe
* Energy use in the international transport system of 84 international cities: findings and policy implications
3 Aspects of technology: opportunities and applications
* Storage systems for reliable future power supply networks
* The Media Laboratory City Car: a new approach to sustainable mobility
* Towards the intelligent grid: a review of the literature
* Innovations in rural and peri-urban areas
4 Transforming the built environment
* Towards the renewable built environment
* Counteracting urban heat islands in Japan
* Ecodesign and the transition of the built environment
* Financing the energy refurbishment of buildings
* Sustainability on the urban scale: green urbanism - new models for urban growth and neighborhoods
5 International urban agendas
* Barcelona and the power of solar ordinances: political will, capacity building and people's participation
* Reducing carbon emissions in London: from theory to practice
* Urban energy and carbon management in Leicester
Oxford's carbon emissions reduction: plans and tools
* Integrating energy in urban planning in Vietnam and Thailand
* Sustainable energy systems and the urban poor: Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines
* Energy planning in South African cities
* Household markets for ethanol - prospects for Ethiopia
* Lagos, Nigeria: Sustainable energy technologies for emerging African mega-city
* Freedom from fossil fuel and nuclear power