Smart Energy in the Smart City Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future [Paperback]

This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects. In addition, it aims to illustrate how the concept of the smart city can enhance understanding of the urban system and foster new forms of management of the metropolis, including with respect to energy supply and use. Specifically, the book explores the different dimensions of the relationship between energy and the city, discusses methodological issues with a special focus on ontological approaches to sustainability, and describes practices, tools, and good examples of energy-related urban planning. The authors represent the main Italian research groups working in the field, Italy being an excellent example of a country exposed to energy problems due to, for example, vulnerability to climate change and lack of primary energy resources. This book will be valuable for students of urban planning, town planners, and researchers interested in understanding the changing nature of the city and the challenges posed by energy issues.

Smart City: the energy issue: a brief introduction.-City SmartNESS: the energy dimension of the urban system.- Smart city, urbanperformance and energy.- Energy and Spatial Planning: A smart integratedapproach.- Towards the definition of the urban saving energy model (UrbanSEM).-Energy Supply and the Territorial Processes as a New Paradigm of Sustainabilityin Planning Science and Practice.- Managing mobility to save energythrough parking planning.- ISUT model. A composite index to measure thesustainability.- The Landscape Assessment for the New Energy Facilities.An integrated approach for Innovative territorial policies.- Technologicalchange and innovation for sustainable cities.- Planning for theconservation of historic districts in Sardinia, Italy. Strategic and energyefficiency-related ilC"