Controlling Energy Use through Urban Planning

1990 ◽  
pp. 270-277
Author(s):  
P. Steadman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Energy Use

scholarly journals Urban Structure, Energy and Planning: Findings from Three Cities in Sweden, Finland and Estonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Große ◽  
Christian Fertner ◽  
Niels Boje Groth
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Increase Energy Efficiency ◽  
Functional Relations

Transforming energy use in cities to address the threats of climate change and resource scarcity is a major challenge in urban development. This study takes stock of the state of energy in urban policy and planning and reveals potentials of and constraints to energy-efficient urban development. The relationship between energy and urban structure provides a framework for discussing the role of urban planning to increase energy efficiency in cities by means of three in-depth case studies of medium-sized cities in Northern Europe: Eskilstuna in Sweden, Turku in Finland and Tartu in Estonia. In some ways these cities go ahead when it comes to their national climate and energy policies and aim to establish urban planning as an instrument to regulate and influence the city’s transition in a sustainable way. At the same time, the cities are constantly facing goal conflicts and limitations to their scope of action, which creates dilemmas in their strategic orientation and planning activities (e.g. regional enlargement and increased commuting vs. compact urban development). Finally, considering urban form and spatial structure along with the policy context as well as regional drivers and functional relations is suggested as a suitable approach for addressing the challenges of energy-efficient urban development.

scholarly journals A GIS-Based Methodology for Speedy Energy Efficiency Mapping: A Case Study in Bologna

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Gaspari ◽  
Michaela De Giglio ◽  
Ernesto Antonini ◽  
Vincenzo Vodola
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Energy Behavior ◽  
Gis Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

The paper reports a methodology developed to map energy consumption of the building stock at the urban scale on a GIS environment. Energy consumption has been investigated, focusing on the shift from the individual building scale to the district one with the purpose of identifying larger homogenous energy use areas for addressing policies and plans to improve the quality and the performance levels at the city scale. The urban planning zoning concept was extended to the energy issue to include the energy behavior of each zone that depends on the performance of its individual buildings. The methodology generates GIS maps providing a district scale visualization of energy consumption according to shared criteria. A case study in Bologna city (Italy) is provided. In the specific case, the last update of Emilia-Romagna regional urban planning regulation required a mapping action regarding energy efficiency of homogeneous urban portions defined by the General Urban Plan. The main achieved results are (a) a methodology to identify homogeneous areas for analyzing energy consumption; (b) an updated energy map of Bologna Municipality.

scholarly journals Linking urban scenarios with energy simulations for dense urban planning under climate change

2021 ◽  
Vol 2042 (1) ◽  
pp. 012054
Author(s):  
J Felkner ◽  
B Marshall ◽  
S Richter ◽  
E Mbata ◽  
S Zigmund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Climate Change Projections ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Energy Simulations ◽  
Scale Design

Abstract This research aims at linking Urban Planning, Energy Simulations and Climate Change projections into the year 2100 for hot climates. The workflow of going back and forth between urban and city scale plans and individual neighborhood parcels to building scale, for the sake of simulating energy demand for a given city into the future is complex. It is prone to rely on many assumptions and simplifications in order to aid the simulations. In this work, we streamline the process with new computational tools, with the goal of communicating a more precise impact of building scale and neighborhood morphological scale design and retrofit strategies in order to meet energy reduction and carbon emission targets focusing on 2030, 2050 and 2100. Urban scenarios are developed using Envision Tomorrow. The building archetypes used therein are associated with energy demand profiles which we simulate using EnergyPlus for various climate change scenarios to improve the forecasting ability of Envision Tomorrow. Denser developments yield far lower neighborhood energy use.

The Psychology of Energy Use

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 768-770
Author(s):  
Stuart Oskamp
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use
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