Energy Strategies, the Urban Dimension, and Spatial Planning

Energy Strategies, the Urban Dimension, and Spatial Planning

Asarpota, K. (Student TU Delft)
Nadin, V. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)

2020

The UN Paris Agreement of November 2016 recognises the need for a ‘cleaner and more efficient energy system’ as a core policy goal to address climate change. The spatial and urban form of cities is a key factor in achieving more efficient energy production and consumption and becomes more important with rapid urbanisation across much of the world. City urban form and planning are therefore potentially powerful levers for the energy transition. This paper examines the extent to which city ‘energy strategies’ address the critical spatial and urban form characteristics of cities as a means to achieve a more efficient energy system. We construct an assessment framework of key aspects of the spatial and urban development of cities related to transport and accessibility and urban form. The framework is used to assess the degree to which energy strategies take into consideration aspects of urban development in four cities that are taking significant action on the energy policy: Hong Kong Oakland, Oslo, and Vancouver. We conclude that in these cities there is only fragmentary consideration of the potential of shaping spatial and urban form in the interests of energy efficiency

City governance
Energy strategy
Energy transition
Spatial planning
Urban form

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a79113db-1a22-4d7a-ac11-b8082eb7b11e

https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143642

1996-1073

Energies, 13 (14)

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© 2020 K. Asarpota, V. Nadin