1. Introduction; Part I. Understanding Urban Energy Landscapes: 2. Energy transitions and urban infrastructure; 3. Urban energy landscapes as connective tissue; 4. Change and agency in landscapes of dwelling; Part II. Heterogeneous Urban Energy Landscapes: 5. Modernity promises and the quest for autonomy: urban energy landscapes in Maputo, Mozambique; 6. Continuous heterogeneity and private strategies for energy provision: urban energy landscapes in Bangalore, India; 7. When equal access to energy causes injustice: urban energy landscapes in Hong Kong, PR China; 8. Industrial legacy and governance through activism: urban energy landscapes in Concepción, Chile; Part III. Change and Transformation in Urban Energy Landscapes: 9. Exploring connective tissues through walking different urban energy landscapes; 10. Imagining urban energy futures; References; Index.
Research volume on urban energy transition that will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.
Vanesa Castán Broto is an interdisciplinary researcher studying climate change governance and urban transitions. In 2016, she was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for contributions to geography. In 2013, her project on Participatory Planning for Climate Change in Mozambique was recognized as a 'Lighthouse Activity for the Urban Poor' by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Castán Broto's recent books include An Urban Politics of Climate Change (with G. Edwards and H. Bulkeley, 2014) and Urban Sustainability Transitions (with N. Frantzeskaki, L. Coenen and D. Loorbach, 2017). Vanesa was a lead chapter author for UN-Habitat's World Cities Report 2016.
'In this remarkable book of conceptual rigor, empirical breadth and
methodological creativity, Castán Broto brings to life the situated
practices and contextualized histories which - she convincingly
argues - are so critical to understanding how urban energy
transitions really happen.' Timothy Moss, Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
'Urban Energy Landscapes provides a compelling framework and set of
cases through which to encounter the global heterogeneity of
infrastructures. Ranging from household interviews to
contextualization of governance within long histories of
colonization, Castán Broto expresses energy infrastructures as
lively 'connective tissues', as symbols of modernity, and as
emblematic of the aspirations of cityhood itself. The cases
evidence multiple entry points through which to imagine energy
transitions as well as the difficulty of theorizing across global
urban experiences, defying any possibility for a unified theory or
global political plan of action. Castán Broto's apprehensiveness at
the scale of change required is alternated with auspicious gestures
at sites where, sometimes, change is already deeply underway.
Whether one reads this text cynically as a glimpse at the
limitations of global action or hopefully as a glance at emergent
alternatives, Urban Energy Landscapes provides a crucial
intervention for its attention to the plurality of global urban
infrastructures.' Mary Lawhon, University of Oklahoma
“From charcoal fires in Maputo to Hong Kong's riot of neon light,
Urban Energy Landscapes provides a conceptually sophisticated and
empirically grounded street level view of the possibilities for
radical transformation in urban energy landscapes. Through the lens
of urban infrastructure and the looming realities of climate
change, Castán Broto sheds new light on our understanding of what
cities are and how they work in the daily lives of urban citizens.'
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
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