Foreword xvii
Grrett Fitzgerald
Foreword xxi
Eduardo da Costa Paes
Acknowledgements xxiii
World’s Cities at a Glance xxvii
Gary Gardner
Part I. Cities as Human Constructs
Chapter 1. Imagining a Sustainable City
Gary Gardner 3
Chapter 2. Cities in the Arc of Human History: A Materials Perspective
Gary Gardner 11
Chapter 3. The City: A System of Systems 27
Gary Gardner
Chapter 4. Toward a Vision of Sustainable Cities
Gary Gardner 45
Chapter 5. The Energy Wildcard: Possible Energy Constraints to Further Urbanization 65
Richard Heinberg
Part II. The Urban Climate Challenge
Chapter 6. Cities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Scope of the Challenge 77
Tom Prugh and Michael Renner
Chapter 7. Urbanism and Global Sprawl 91
Peter Calthorpe
Chapter 8. Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Buildings 115
Michael Renner
Chapter 9. Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Crisis of Opportunity 141
Gregory H. Kats
City View : Melbourne, Australia 155
Gregory, H. Kats
Chapter 10. Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Cities Possible? 161
Betsy Agar and Michael Renner
Chapter 11. Supporting Sustainable Transportation 177
Michael Renner
Chapter 12. Urban Transport and Climate Change 195
Cornie Huizenga, Karl Peet, and Sudhir Gota
Chapter 13. Source Reduction and Recycling of Waste 217
Michael Renner
Chapter 14. Solid Waste and Climate Change 239
Perinaz Bhada-Tata and Daniel Hoornweg
Chapter 15. Rural-Urban Migration, Lifestyles, and Deforestation 263
Tom Prugh
Part III. Politics, Equity, and Livability
Chapter 16. Remunicipalization, the Low-Carbon Transition, and Energy Democracy 275
Andrew Cumbers
Chapter 17. The Vital Role of Biodiversity in Urban Sustainability 297
Martí Boada Juncà, Roser Maneja Zaragoza, and Pablo Knobel Guelar
Chapter 18. The Inclusive City: Urban Planning for Diversity and Social Cohesion 317
Franziska Schreiber and Alexander Carius
Chapter 19. Urbanization, Inclusion, and Social Justice 343
Jim Jarvie and Richard FriendNotes 355
Index 401