Urban Energy Transition

Urban energy transition: an introduction
1 Principles and drivers
_Solar City: reconnecting energy generation and use to the technical and social logic of solar power
_Urbanization, increasing wealth and energy transitions: comparing experiences between the USA, Japan and rapidly 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 making of a climate friendly future
_City energy networking in Europe
_Energy use and CO2 production in the urban passenger transport systems 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 neighbourhoods
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