"This book is a magnificent resource for students, practitioners and concerned citizens. It belongs on one’s desk as a constant reference source and, in these times, not on the shelves ... The author combines an encyclopaedic knowledge with a lucid writing style that places this book in the Meadows, Carsons and Lovins class as one who can turn around mindsets but also provide a vision ahead."
Dr Pem Gerner - Cityscape News and Comment, March 2007

Despite the mounting costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities is planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urban future marked by a radically new, renewable energy infrastructure requires entirely new tools and frames of decision-making.

This is an original guide to an entirely unprecedented urban transformation, to cities and towns powered by renewable energy. Squarely focused on action, it supports design, planning and management decisions and 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, presenting renewable energy applications as offering new and inevitable approaches to urban infrastructure planning and the design of cities.


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.

Peter Droege has performed academic roles at major universities in the United States and Japan, and is presently holding professorial positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Beijing, China. He is a Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, for Asia Pacific, and directs Epolis, a Sydney-based consultancy active in sustainable urban change worldwide.

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Contents
Introduction
This revolution in context
Renewable energy
The fourth industrial revolution
Cities are settings of hope
The price of inaction

1 In the hothouse, beyond the peak: the logic of the urban energy revolution
1.1 Energy and urban sustainability in the 21st century
1.2 Fossil and nuclear energy systems, and the industrial construction of reality
1.3 Summary and outlook: Renewable Energy and Renewable City

2 How to cope with Peak Oil by preparing for climate change
2.1 Confronting the risk to cities
2.2 Mitigating adaptation
2.3 Urban risks
2.4 Urban exposure and impacts
2.5 Urban vulnerability

3 Renewable geography
3.1 Other drivers of change
3.2 The design of the Renewable City
3.3 Renewable City form and formation
3.4 Space, time and energy: storing and dispatching renewable power
3.5 Renewable citizenship: support communities and programs

4 Building the Renewable City: tools, trades, technology
4.1 Form follows fuel
4.2 Citywide efficiency
4.3 The Renewable City toolbox
4.4 Urban renewable power finance
4.5 Municipal power

5 Renewable City buildings: guidance and learning
5.1 Renewable city building tools: rating performance
5.2 Learning from renewable building practice

6 Templates for planning and action
6.1 The Solar City® Program
6.2 Rating the Renewable City
6.3 Renewable City engagement: Portland best practice

Source:
The Renewable City 2007
Peter Droege 2007