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

Covers design, engineering, planning, and modeling of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation measures; Presents global city-wide renewable energy strategies, resource efficiency and urban thermal performance planning, electric vehicle accommodation and solar-smart distributed renewable energy systems; Explains successful innovations in distributed renewable energy communities, finance, policy and the need to manage emerging conflicts and divergent realities in a warming world; Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around that provide local, regional, and country-specific and global governance and organizational perspectives.