Urban Energy Transition: An Introduction ........................ 1
Peter Droege
PART I Principles and Drivers
1 Solar City: Reconnecting Energy Generation and Use to the
Technical and Social Logic of Solar Energy .................. 17
Hermann Scheer
2 Undoing Atmospheric Harm: Civil Action to Shrink the
Carbon Footprint ............................................ 27
John Byrne, Lado Kurdgelashvili and Kristen Hughes
3 Urbanization, Increasing Wealth and Energy Transitions:
Comparing Experiences between the USA, Japan and Rapidly
Developing Asia-Pacific Economies ........................... 55
Peter J. Marcotullio and Niels B. Schulz
4 Direct versus Embodied Energy - The Need for Urban
Lifestyle Transitions ....................................... 91
Manfred Lenzen, Richard Wood and Barney Foran
5 Energy Development and Sustainable Monetary Systems ........ 121
Shann Turnbull
PART II Policy and Practice Dynamics
6 Renewable Energy Policymaking in New York and London:
Lessons for other 'World Cities'? .......................... 143
Stephen A. Hammer
7 Climate Change and Cities: The Making of a Climate
Friendly Future ............................................ 173
Shobhakar Dhakal
8 City Energy Networking in Europe ........................... 193
Marco Keiner and Arley Kim
9 Energy Use and CO2 Production in the Urban Passenger
Transport Systems of 84 International Cities: Findings and
Policy Implications ........................................ 211
Jeffrey R. Kenworthy
PART III New Aspects of Technology
10 Storage Systems for Reliable' Future Power Supply
Networks ................................................... 239
Dirk Uwe Sauer
11 iedia Laboratory City Car: A New Approach to Sustainable
Urban Mobility ............................................. 267
William J. Mitchell, Ryan Chin and Andres Sevtsuk
12 Towards the Intelligent Grid: A Review of the Literature ... 283
John Gardner and Peta Ashworth
13 Innovations Promote Rural and Peri-Urban Electrification
in Developing Countries .................................... 309
Nancy E. Wimmer
PART IV Transforming the Built Environment
14 Towards the Renewable Built Environment ................... 329
Federico Butera
15 Counteracting Urban Heat Islands in Japan .................. 365
Toshiaki Ichinose, Futoshi Matsumoto and Kumi Kataoka
16 Ecodesign and the Transition of the Built Environment ...... 381
Ken Yeang
17 "Energy-Contracting" to Achieve Energy Efficiency and
Renewables using Comprehensive Refurbishment of Buildings
as an Example .............................................. 387
Jan W. Bleyl-Androschin and Daniel Schinnerl
18 Sustainability on the Urban Scale: Green Urbanism - New
Models for Urban Growth and Neighbourhoods ................. 409
Steffen Lehmann
PART V International Urban Agendas
19 Barcelona and the Power of Solar Ordinances: Political
Will, Capacity Building and People's Participation ......... 433
Josep Puig
20 Reducing Carbon Emissions in London: From Theory to
Practice ................................................... 451
A.R. Day, C. Dunham, P.G. Jones, L. Hinojosa, A. Dunsdon
and P. Ogumka
21 Urban Energy and Carbon Management in Leicester ............ 475
Peter Webber and Paul Fleming
22 Reducing Carbon Emissions From Oxford City: Plans and
Tools ...................................................... 491
Rajat Gupta
23 Integrating Energy in Urban Planning in the Philippines
and Vietnam ................................................ 507
Jessie L. Todoc
24 Sustainable Energy Systems and the Urban Poor: Nigeria,
Brazil and the Philippines ................................. 533
Joy Clancy, Olu Maduka and Feri Lumampao
25 Energy Planning in South African cities .................... 563
Mark Borchers, Megan Euston-Brown and Leila Mahomed
26 Household Markets for Ethanol - Prospects for Ethiopia ..... 585
Erin Laurell Boyd
27 Freedom from Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Power: The Scope for
Local Solutions in the United States ....................... 619
Tam Hunt
28 Lagos, Nigeria: Sustainable Energy Technologies for an
Emerging African Megacity .................................. 631
Richard Ingwe, Eugene J. Aniah and Judith Otu
Index ......................................................... 647
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