Urban Energy Transition

The great shift<br>From cities of waste to climate stabilizing communities<br>Peter Droege<br><br>Solar and smart cities<br>Smart solar integration insights from four pioneers: Masdar City, Stockholm, Freiburg and San Diego<br>Saeed Esfandi and John Byrne<br><br>Urban housing transformations<br>Refurbishing suburbs to regenerate cities: energy, architecture and technology for housing<br>Eliana Cangelli, Michele Conteduca, Hassan Zaiter and Elnaz Behnam Kia<br><br>Distributed renewable energy<br>Enabling distributed renewable energy uptake in South African cities<br>Tanaka Shumba-Mukudu, Mark Borchers, Joshua Archibald Dippenaar and Silas Mulaudzi<br><br>Net-zero to climate-positive city<br>Towards a climate-positive world: the dramatic shift to net-zero, then climate-positive cities<br>Peter Newman, Jan Peters, Xavi Riuz Arozarena and Jemma Green<br><br>The renewable energy precinct<br>Learning from Fairwater Living Laboratory – towards a precinct-based approach for decarbonization and regeneration<br>Leena Thomas, Nimish Biloria, Sara Wilkinson, Joseph Wyndham and Alfredo Huete<br><br>Cities after petroleum<br>Transition from the oil economy to post-oil cities<br>Roger Brewster <br><br>EV infrastructure propagation<br>Electric vehicle adoption: a review of the quality of infrastructure in Kenya<br>Winfred Kimuya and Wilson Ombati Nyang&rsquo;au <br><br>Towards autonomous islands<br>Designing a safe and cost-efficient power supply with a PV system in the City of Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia<br>Parag Patil, Giovanni Maurice Pradipta and Dieter D. Genske<br><br>Beyond heat islands<br>Energy conservation effects on air conditioning due to urban heat island countermeasures: a simulation at city-block scale<br>Yujiro Hirano and Toshiaki Ichinose<br><br>Building in the Pyrocene<br>Resistant architecture for bushfire zones<br>Deborah Ascher Barnstone<br><br>The role of the building sector<br>Net-zero buildings: exploring the complexity of a sector-wide transition in the new-buildings sector in South African cities<br>Megan Euston-Brown<br><br>Understanding energy in cities<br>Energy and emission profiles of sub-Saharan African cities: an evidence-based analysis to empower cities in responding to energy and climate change Issues<br>Joel Yongoua Nana, Mark Borchers and Zanie Cilliers<br><br>Urban energy governance<br>Community assumption of energy governance shifts decision-making and planning in the U.S. to community clean-energy authorities<br>John Byrne and Job Taminiau<br><br>Public urban energy innovators<br>Empirical analysis of local government efforts in the U.S. to drive urban energy transition: subscriber versus community solar energy<br>Job Taminiau, John Byrne and Thomas Benson<br><br>Metropolltan energy transition<br>Climate neutrality in large cities – the Berlin case<br>Bernd Hirschl<br><br>Thermal city and community perspectives<br>Accelerated heat transition in Germany: socio-economic challenges using the example of Berlin<br>Julika Weiss and Janis Bergmann<br><br>Tapping liquid waste for urban energy efficiency<br>Wastewater heat in Berlin: how geo-based wastewater heat maps and wastewater heat can contribute to a low-carbon urban energy system<br>Elisa Dunkelberg, Lukas Torliene, Michel Gunkel and Heinrich Gürtler<br><br>Searching for urban resource efficiency<br>Decarbonization of urban environment by municipal solid waste-to-energy system: technical and policy considerations<br>Ogheneruona Endurance Diemuodeke, Kesiena Owebor and Chukwumerije Okereke<br><br>Avoiding unintended consequences<br>Burning landscapes: the country's great transformation through renewable energies threatens to fail because of its mistakes<br>Uli Hellweg<br><br>Nature-based support in national strategies<br>Unlocking nature-based solutions for climate resilience: mangroves and Somalia&rsquo;s Nationally Determined Contributions<br>Liban Hassan <br><br>Shoring up the biosphere<br>All for Earth: accelerating the urban energy transition in its planetary rescue context <br>Peter Droege