| Cities present politically difficult challenges that can easily replace positive change with negative change. City planners and city councils are bombarded with emotional arguments, and often pressured to spend money counterproductively. This pattern can be devastating to the environment as well to a city's economy and quality of life. Not to mention the drain on its tax base. Opening with a definition of renewable power, The Renewable City: A comprehensive guide to an urban revolution
concisely sets out the fundamental logic and philosophical framework of the urban energy revolution. It then progresses to look at how cities best attempt adaptation to accelerating, anthropogenic climate change: by mitigating it and fighting its root causes.
Two central chapters map the spatial implications of the urban renewable energy transformation and the new technologies that might be involved in successfully creating the renewable city. The guide not only compares different approaches to creating renewable cities, but also examines various sustainable building assessment and design tools. The volume concludes with an easy-to-use best-practice template for local governments and planners, applying lessons from advanced cities around the world.
The Renewable City: A comprehensive guide to an urban revolution is an original guide to an unprecedented urban transformation: cities and towns powered by renewable energy. Squarely focused on action, it supports design, planning, and management decisions. It serves as a practical guide to practitioners, academics, and political leaders in communities and cities worldwide, as a useful and well-structured reference text.
It is built on the most successful of past and present urban sustainability trends and emerging infrastructure directions, It presents renewable energy applications as offering new and inevitable approaches to urban infrastructure planning and the design of cities.
About the Author
Peter Droege is an expert on the role of renewable energy within the fields of urban design, development and urban infrastructure. He has directed and developed Solar City, a research development effort conducted under the auspices of the International Energy Agency.
Droege has performed academic roles at major universities in the United States and Japan, and is presently holding professional positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Beijing, China. He is Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, For Asia Pacific, and directs Epolis, a Sydney-based consultancy active in sustainable urban change worldwide.
Author: Peter Droege
Format: Softcover
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 321 |
