Urban Energy Landscapes

✍ Scribed by Vanesa Castán Broto

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The urban energy transition represents a transformation of such magnitude that it will require a re-examination of the fundamental relationship between societies and energy resources. The potential for cities to deliver sustainable energy for their citizens requires context-specific action. One-size-fits-all approaches - which assume homogeneity across cities and economies of scale in the extension of electricity networks - have largely failed to deliver sustainable energy for all. This challenge is existential, questioning the fundamental ways in which contemporary life is organized around energy. This innovative volume argues that the urban energy transition depends on specific urban trajectories and heterogeneous urban energy landscapes, reflecting both strategic projects of urbanization and people's dwelling practices. Looking at in-depth case studies of urban energy landscapes in four major cities, it calls for citizens' active engagement with experimentation in everyday life. The book will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Three Propositions about Urban Energy Landscapes
1.2 Heterogeneous Urban Energy Landscapes
1.3 Structure of the Argument
Part I: Understanding Urban Energy Landscapes
Chapter 2: Energy Transitions and Urban Infrastructure
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Urban Energy Transitions and the Politics of Infrastructure Regimes
2.3 The Mundane Life of Energy Infrastructures
2.4 The Political Ecology of Urban Energy Flows
2.5 Everyday Practices and the Making of Energy Choreographies
2.6 Extraordinary Ordinariness of Urban Infrastructure Landscapes
Chapter 3: Urban Energy Landscapes as Connective Tissue
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Three Theoretical Approaches to Energy Landscapes
3.3 Phenomenological Perspectives on Landscapes and Technology
3.4 Connective Tissue
3.5 Fostering Transitions in Energy Landscapes
Chapter 4: Change and Agency in Landscapes of Dwelling
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Landscapes of Being
4.3 The Worldhood of the World
4.4 Failure and Visibility: Within-the-World Encounters
4.5 Neo-Materialism and the Notion of Agency
4.6 Conclusion
Part II: Heterogeneous Urban Energy Landscapes
Chapter 5: Modernity Promises and the Quest for Autonomy: Urban Energy Landscapes in Maputo, Mozambique
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Coevolution of Energy Services and the Urban Fabric
5.3 Energy Flows and Urban Circulation
5.4 Urban Choreographies of Energy Use
5.5 Governing Energy
5.6 The Cycle of Charcoal
5.7 Transition Trajectories
Chapter 6: Contiguous Heterogeneity and Private Strategies for Energy Provision: Urban Energy Landscapes in Bangalore, India
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Coevolution of Energy Services and the Urban Fabric
6.3 Energy Flows and Urban Circulation
6.4 Urban Choreographies of Energy Use
6.5 Governing Energy
6.6 Engineering and the Making of Electric Modernities
6.7 Scarcity in the Electric City
6.8 Transition Trajectories
Chapter 7: When Equal Access to Energy Causes Injustice: Urban Energy Landscapes in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Coevolution of Energy Services and the Urban Fabric
7.3 Energy Flows and Urban Circulation
7.4 Urban Choreographies of Energy Use
7.5 Experiences of Energy Poverty in a Densely Built Environment
7.6 Governing Energy
7.7 Reliability as Electricity Politics
7.8 The Politics of Lighting Transitions
7.9 Transition Trajectories
Chapter 8: Industrial Legacy and Governance through Activism: Urban Energy Landscapes in Concepción, Chile
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Coevolution of Energy Services and the Urban Fabric
8.3 Energy Flows and Urban Circulation
8.4 Urban Choreographies of Energy Use
8.5 Governing Energy
8.6 Environmental Planning as Energy Governance
8.7 Local Practices as Spaces of Possibility
8.8 Transition Trajectories
Part III: Change and Transformation in Urban Energy Landscapes
Chapter 9: Exploring Connective Tissues through Walking Different Urban Energy Landscapes
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Walking Urban Energy Landscapes
9.2.1 Urban Boundaries in Maputo
9.2.2 Bangalore’s Infrastructure Histories
9.2.3 Hong Kong Housing Estates
9.2.4 Concepción’s Large Infrastructures
9.3 Reassembling Urban Infrastructure Landscapes
9.4 Extraordinary Ordinariness
Chapter 10: Imagining Urban Energy Futures
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Beyond Homogeneous Models of Service Delivery
10.3 The Existential Challenge as Being-With Energy
10.4 Investigating Being-With through the Lives of Artifacts
10.5 Intra-Actions in Urban Energy Landscapes
References
Index