Green Planning for Cities and Communities

This book addresses key issues across the field of sustainable urban planning, and provides a unique reference tool for planners, engineers, architects, public administrators, and other experts. The evolution of cities and communities is giving rise to pressing energy and environmental problems that demand concrete solutions. In this context, urban planning is inevitably a complex activity that requires a sound analytical interpretation of ongoing developments, multidisciplinary analysis of the available tools and technologies, appropriate political management, and the ability to monitor progress objectively in order to verify the effectiveness of the policies implemented. This book is exceptional in both the breadth of its coverage and its focus on the interactions between different elements. Individual sections focus on strategies and tools for green planning, energy efficiency and sustainability in city planning, sustainable mobility, rating systems, and the smart city approach to improving urban-scale sustainability. The authors draw on their extensive practical experience to provide operational content supplementing the theoretical and methodological elements covered in the text, and each section features informative case studies.

Giuliano Dall'O' is a Full Professor of Building Physics at the Politecnico di Milano (DABC), Milan, Italy, and an expert and consultant in many areas related to energy conservation, energy efficiency, use of renewable energies in buildings, sustainability in the building sector, and the smart city approach. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 technical books and more than 200 technical papers, many of which are Scopus- or WOS-indexed. His publications include the previous Springer book “Green Energy Audit of Buildings: A guide for a sustainable energy audit of buildings.” He is one of the leading authorities, at both the national and European level, on the energy certification of buildings. His areas of expertise include: Energy and Sustainable Planning, Sustainable Energy Action Plans (Covenant of Majors), Energy Certification of Buildings, Energy Audit and Green Energy Audit of Buildings, Zero Energy Building Design, and Smart Cities. Since November 2017, Professor Dall'O' has been President of the Green Building Council Italia, an association that promotes LEED and other certification protocols for buildings and territories (neighborhoods and cities) throughout Italy.