Smart green cities : toward a carbon neutral world / by Woodrow Clark II and Grant Cooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Woodrow W., author.

Cooke, Grant, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable urban development.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Technological innovations--Environmental aspects.

Technological innovations.

Intelligent sensors.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Gower, 2016.

Summary:

Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs - sustainable development, communications, energy, water, waste, and transportation to develop guidelines, processes and best practices. City leaders are key to mitigating climate change who must plan, design and implement solutions. Smart Green Cities (SGC) offers a global perspective that includes implementing the Green Industrial Revolution the title of their last book. SGC discusses innovative emerging technologies, and the new economics paradigm that move beyond the out-dated neo-classical economics. The authors present examples from around the world including Europe, the U.S, China and the Middle East, which discuss the best green technologies from renewable energy power generation to smart on-site grid development. The extraordinary shift from a rural to an urban world is described; national plans are analyzed; so that future cities will be designed, built and implemented now - not 50 years from now. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Modern Civilization is The City 5

Cities are Getting Bigger 9

Land Area 11

Urban Density 12

Climate Change Impacts Cities 13

Cities Are the Battle Ground for Climate Change 17

What is the Answer? 19

2 Key Problems Facing Modern Cities 21

Congestion and Air Quality is a Global Problem 23

Climate Change and Global Warming 25

Wealth and Inequality 28

Homelessness 30

City Sprawl = Agglomerations 31

Infrastructure Issues 32

Not Enough Water 34

Unprecedented Challenges 37

3 The Green Industrial Revolution 41

The First Industrial Revolution 41

The Second Industrial Revolution 43

Not Enough Supply, Too Much Demand 45

The Green Industrial Revolution 47

Sustainability is the Key 50

The Green Industrial Revolution's Key Components 51

Government Support and Involvement is Crucial 60

The Next Economics: Civic Capitalism 62

4 Smart and Green are Sustainable 69

Sustainable Cities are the Answer 70

Denmark 72

Agile Systems 76

Sustainability Starts at Home 77

Creating Sustainable Communities 80

Three Smart Green Cities 81

Bristol, United Kingdom 86

5 Technologies That Make a City Smart and Green 93

Storage Technologies 94

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Power Storage in Electric Cars 99

Hydrogen - a Breakthrough Technology 100

Smart, Green Grids 103

Europe's Parallel Lines 105

China's Leading Smart Grid 106

Greener Waste Collecting 109

Emerging Green Technologies 111

A Revolution in Lighting Technologies and Peak Demand Response 112

Cool Roofs Will Offset Carbon 114

Nanotechnology - "Really" Small Things 115

Regeneration Braking: From Trains to Cars to Trains and Back Again 117

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) 117

Heat Pumps and Seawater Heat Pumps 119

Biofuel: A Transitional Energy Power 120

Algae as a Biofuel Source 120

Green Industrial Revolution Fuel from Plants 122

Waste to Energy 123

Commercializing Emerging Technologies 123

6 Sustainable Green Transport 129

Sustainable Transport 131

Walking Empowers Residents to Experience Their Environment 132

Bicycling 134

Public Transportation 137

Hybrids, Electric, and Hydrogen Vehicles 145

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles 149

Uber and Zip Cars 150

Cities without Autos 152

7 China-Revolutionary Green Transformation 155

China's Wind Power 158

China's Solar Valley City 162

China's Leading Smart Grid 163

Emerging World Leader in Environmental Sustainability 170

A Green Technology Culture 171

8 The Next Economics for a Greener World 177

True Costs of Oil and Natural Gas 179

Free-market Economics Has Failed 181

China's Central Planning Model 184

The Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) Model 185

The Nation State of California 189

Paying to Mitigate Climate Change 190

Green Jobs: A Key Benefit 194

Private Investment is Needed 196

Google Invests Over $1 Billion in Green Tech 197

9 Smart Ecocities-New Ideas For Urban Living 205

Curitiba, Brazil 210

Auroville, India 210

Freiburg, Germany 211

Stockholm, Sweden 212

Adelaide, Australia 213

Masdar City, United Arab Emirates 217

Tianjin-China's Ecoeity 220

Progress in Other Nation States 224

University of California Davis, West Village -a Net Zero Energy Community 225

10 Smart Green Cities 235

The Green Industrial Revolution 236

Toward a Greener and Smarter Future 237

Grid Parity 239

Energy Deflation 240

Zero Marginal Cost 241

The Anthropocene Era 242

Quay Valley: A Smart Green Future City - California Style 243

Berlin-To Become Climate-Neutral 244

Smart Green Cities Are Here Now 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472455543

1472455541

OCLC:

921994976