Decarbonizing Cities

An Integrated Approach
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-91669-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy

While urban areas concentrate the bulk of the world's population, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions, they are also on the front line of climate change impacts: heat waves, flooding, land artificialization, public health crises, and resource pressures. Yet how can cities be transformed without undermining their livability, heritage, or social cohesion? How can international ambitions for carbon neutrality be reconciled with the local realities of planning, governance, and everyday practices? Can decarbonization policies move beyond purely technological responses to become genuine projects of territorial transformation?

Drawing on research conducted across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, this volume offers a resolutely interdisciplinary reading of urban decarbonization policies. It examines the interplay between planning, mobility, green infrastructure, urban form, multilevel governance, citizen participation, and development projects, while setting stated strategies against their actual implementation. Through case studies and comparative analyses, the contributors demonstrate that decarbonization is neither a universal model nor a purely technical matter. It entails political, economic, social, and cultural choices that redefine how cities are built, inhabited, and governed.

At a time when adaptation to climate change is becoming as essential as reducing carbon emissions, this book calls for rethinking the city as a living system—one capable of reconciling environmental resilience, social justice, quality of life, and the preservation of urban heritage. In doing so, it opens a forward-looking reflection on the conditions for a genuinely shared ecological transition, grounded in better coordination across scales of decision-making, renewed governance, and effective citizen participation. This book will be of interest to researchers in urban studies, urban planning, urban policy and climate change.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingallina, Patrizia

Desruelles, Stéphane

Carlotti, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface François GEMENNE 1. Introduction Patrizia INGALLINA, Marco CARLOTTI, Stéphane DESRUELLES 2. Decarbonizing Cities in South Korea: Institutional Frameworks and Key Projects for Sustainable Transformation Jungyoon PARK 3. Adapting French Coastal Cities to Climate Change: Strategies and Actions Loïc PRIEUR, Camille MIALOT 4. Understanding the Natural Growth or an Influenced Trench of Urban Sprawl in Abu Dhabi: Implications for Climate Change Khaled ALAWADI, Praveen MAGHELAL, Asim KHANAL, Anood AL HOSANI 5. Mapping Decarbonization: A New Index for Measuring Low Emission Urban Vitality in Mediterranean Cities Lucrezia GELICHI, Giuseppe DE LUCA 6. Decarbonization of Cities Through Public Transport and Biodiversity: The Past, Present, and Future of Madrid’s Green Railway Corridor Graziella TROVATO, Luis MOYA 7. Metropolitan Areas Smart Mobilities: Between Innovant Mobility, Micro-mobility, and Demobility Philippe VIDAL, Christophe IMBERT 8. Practices of Transition: A Discussion Through Three Stories of Decarbonizing Cities Bertrando BONFANTINI, Beatrice GALIMBERTI 9. Decarbonization and Urban Form: Controversies Surrounding Pedestrianization Policies in Paris Patrizia INGALLINA, Marco CARLOTTI 10. Decarbonization and Urban Planning in Île-de-France: The Case of Val-de-Fontenay François BOURVIC 11. Conclusion Patrizia INGALLINA, Marco CARLOTTI, Stéphane DESRUELLES 13. Appendix: A Note on the Conference “Mitigating the Effects of Global Warming and Unlocking New Opportunities to Achieve Sustainability” Stéphane DESRUELLES

Über Autor(innen)

Patrizia Ingallina is Full Professor of Urban Planning at Sorbonne Université and a researcher at the Médiations research unit.

Stéphane Desruelles is Associate Professor of Geography at Sorbonne Université (SU) and Head of the Department of Geography and Planning at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.

Marco Carlotti holds a PhD in Urban Planning from Sorbonne University and is a member of the Médiations research unit.