This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: 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 storage; and the case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles. Presented are practical and principled aspects of technology, economics, design, culture and society, presenting perspectives that are both local and international in scope and relevance.

• Front Cover 2
• Urban Energy Transition 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Contents 7
• Urban Energy Transition: An Introduction 11
• PART I: Principles and Drivers 25
  • Chapter 1 Solar City: Reconnecting Energy Generation and Use to the Technical and Social Logic of Solar Energy 27
    • 1.1 No Possible Change within the Conventional Energy System 27
    • 1.2 Renewable Energies as an Energetic Imperative 28
    • 1.3 Energy Generation and Energy Use: from Disconnection to Reconnection 29
    • 1.4 Looking Back to Look Forward 32
    • 1.5 From Global Energy Supply to the City as Power Station 34
    • References 36
  • Chapter 2 Undoing Atmospheric Harm: Civil Action to Shrink the Carbon Footprint 37
    • 2.1 Changing the Sky 38