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<p>1. Introduction</p> <p><b>Part I: Imagining smart urban energy systems </b></p> <p>2. Competing narratives and interests in smart urban energy systems</p> <p>3. Where are smart sustainable cities made? Tracing wired socio-technical relationships in, through, beneath, and beyond a city </p> <p>4. Smart energy cities: A perspective from West Africa </p> <p>5. Beyond urban smart grid experiments: replication and upscaling as contested concepts </p> <p>6. The role of active buildings in smart energy imaginaries: Implications of living well in low carbon homes and neighbourhoods </p> <p>7. Do mobility and sustainability rhyme in the autonomous city? </p> <p><b>Part II: Urban design, planning and policies</b> </p> <p>8. Re-defining the smart-city concept from the urban climate perspectives </p> <p>9. Berlin's pathway to climate neutrality: scenarios and measures for a European metropole </p> <p>10. City, neighbourhood, citizen: putting the '20-minute' idea to work in Edinburgh </p> <p>11. From smart urbanism to sustainable urban mobility plan: A critical evaluation of the case of Cagliari </p> <p>12. Analysing India's smart cities mission from a sustainability perspective</p> <p>13. Energy transitions and smart cities in Russia</p> <p>14. Energy poverty in cities: A behaviourally informed perspective </p> <p><b>Part III: Technologies and data for smart and low-carbon urban futures </b></p> <p>15. Energy security of smart cities</p> <p>16. Governing the transition towards smart grids through organized industry events</p> <p>17. Emission reduction and renewables integration through distributed ledger technology </p> <p>18. Just comfort: District Heating and Cooling as a sustainable energy solution</p> <p>19. The role of energy-efficient buildings in the post-carbon future</p> <p>20. Using bottom-up digital technologies in technical decision-making for designing a low-carbon built environment </p> <p>21. Street lighting as a dimension of smart energy cities</p>

<p><b>Prof. Oleg Golubchikov</b> School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. <p><b>Dr Komali Yenneti</b> School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.

<p><b>Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field to clarify and reshape the vision of smart cities</b> <p><i>Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future</i> is a seminal work that draws together insights and case studies on post-carbon urbanism across a variety of fields—from smart energy grids to active buildings, sustainable mobility and urban design. <p>Another objective is to foster an understanding of how digitally-enhanced smart city solutions can assist energy transitions, and what new developments and challenges they bring in areas ranging from urban governance to energy security. <p>Key topics covered in this book include: <ul><li>Recent developments in urban planning, building design and smart technologies</li><li>Urban-scale digital platforms and innovation for clean energy systems, energy efficiency and net-zero policies</li><li>Socio-technical and political relationships in climate-neutral cities and smart cities</li><li>Context-rich, situated perspectives from Europe, Africa and Asia</li></ul> <p><i>Smart Cities, Energy and Climate</i> serves as a primary reference for scholars, students and policy makers interested in the conceptual, technical, economic and political challenges associated with the transition towards a smart and sustainable urban future.

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