Smart Cities, Energy and Climate
Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future
1. Auflage Juli 2024
416 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field to clarify and reshape the vision of smart cities
Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future is a seminal work that draws together insights and case studies on post-carbon urbanism across a variety of fields--from smart energy grids to active buildings, sustainable mobility and urban design.
Another objective is to foster an understanding of how digitally-enhanced smart city solutions can assist energy transitions, and what new developments and challenges they bring in areas ranging from urban governance to energy security.
Key topics covered in this book include:
* Recent developments in urban planning, building design and smart technologies
* Urban-scale digital platforms and innovation for clean energy systems, energy efficiency and net-zero policies
* Socio-technical and political relationships in climate-neutral cities and smart cities
* Context-rich, situated perspectives from Europe, Africa and Asia
Smart Cities, Energy and Climate serves as a primary reference for scholars, students and policy makers interested in the conceptual, technical, economic and political challenges associated with the transition towards a smart and sustainable urban future.
Part I: Imagining smart urban energy systems
2. Competing narratives and interests in smart urban energy systems
3. Where are smart sustainable cities made? Tracing wired socio-technical relationships in, through, beneath, and beyond a city
4. Smart energy cities: A perspective from West Africa
5. Beyond urban smart grid experiments: replication and upscaling as contested concepts
6. The role of active buildings in smart energy imaginaries: Implications of living well in low carbon homes and neighbourhoods
7. Do mobility and sustainability rhyme in the autonomous city?
Part II: Urban design, planning and policies
8. Re-defining the smart-city concept from the urban climate perspectives
9. Berlin's pathway to climate neutrality: scenarios and measures for a European metropole
10. City, neighbourhood, citizen: putting the '20-minute' idea to work in Edinburgh
11. From smart urbanism to sustainable urban mobility plan: A critical evaluation of the case of Cagliari
12. Analysing India's smart cities mission from a sustainability perspective
13. Energy transitions and smart cities in Russia
14. Energy poverty in cities: A behaviourally informed perspective
Part III: Technologies and data for smart and low-carbon urban futures
15. Energy security of smart cities
16. Governing the transition towards smart grids through organized industry events
17. Emission reduction and renewables integration through distributed ledger technology
18. Just comfort: District Heating and Cooling as a sustainable energy solution
19. The role of energy-efficient buildings in the post-carbon future
20. Using bottom-up digital technologies in technical decision-making for designing a low-carbon built environment
21. Street lighting as a dimension of smart energy cities
Dr Komali Yenneti School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
