Planning After Petroleum

<p>The<b> </b>past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the changing pattern of petroleum supplies? What key strategies should planners and policy makers implement in petroleum vulnerable cities to address the challenges of moving beyond oil? How might a shift away from petroleum provide opportunities to improve or remake cities for the economic, social and environmental imperatives of twenty-first-century sustainability?</p><p>Such questions are the focus of contributors to this book with perspectives ranging across the planning challenge: overarching petroleum futures, governance, transition and climate change questions, the role of various urban transport nodes and household responses, ways of measuring oil vulnerability, and the effects on telecommunications, ports and other urban infrastructure. This comprehensive volume – with contributions from and focusing on cities in Australia, the UK, the US, France, Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea – provides key insights to enable cities to plan for the age beyond petroleum.</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p><p>List of Figures</p><p>List of Tables</p><p>List of Abbreviations</p><p>Notes on Contributors</p><p>Foreword</p><p>Brendan Gleeson</p><p>Introduction</p><p>1. Investigating Cities After Oil: Planning for Systemic Urban Oil Vulnerability</p><p>Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe and Anitra Nelson</p><p>Part I. Energy Horizons</p><p>2. A Stormy Petroleum Horizon: Cities and Planning Beyond Oil </p><p>Jago Dodson</p><p>3. The Paradox of Oil: The Cheaper it is, the More It Costs</p><p>Samuel Alexander </p><p>4. Institutional Planning Responses to a Confluence of Oil Vulnerability and Climate Change</p><p>Tony Matthews and Jago Dodson </p><p>5. Energy Security and Oil Vulnerability Responses</p><p>Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe</p><p>6. Post-Petroleum Urban Justice</p><p>Wendy Steele, Lisa de Kleyn and Katelyn Samson</p><p>Part II. Transport and Land Use</p><p>7. Walking the City</p><p>John Whitelegg</p><p>8. Cycling Potential in Dispersed Cities</p><p>Jennifer Bonham and Matthew Burke </p><p>9. Children’s Active Transport: An Upside of Oil Vulnerability?</p><p>Scott Sharpe and Paul Tranter</p><p>10. Public Transport Networks in the Post-Petroleum Era</p><p>John Stone and Paul Mees</p><p>11. Oil and Mortgage Vulnerability in Australian Cities</p><p>Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe</p><p>12. Outer Suburbs, Car Dependence and Residential Choice in France</p><p>Benjamin Motte-Baumvol and Leslie Belton-Chevallier</p><p>13. Greenspace After Petroleum: From Freeways to Greenways</p><p>Jason Byrne</p><p>III. Urban Systems</p><p>14. Local Energy Plans for Transitions to a Low Carbon Future</p><p>Brendan F.D. Barrett and Ralph Horne</p><p>15. Motor Vehicle Fleets in Oil Vulnerable Suburbs: A Prospect of Technology Innovations</p><p>Tiebei Li, Neil Sipe and Jago Dodson</p><p>16. Energy for Cities</p><p>Cheryl Desha and Angela Reeve</p><p>17. The Role of Telecommunication in Post-Petroleum Planning </p><p>Tooran Alizadeh</p><p>18. Peak Oil: Challenges and Changes for the Air Transport Industry</p><p>Douglas Baker, Nicholas Stevens and Md. Kamruzzaman</p><p>Conclusion</p><p>19. Planning and Petroleum Futures: Research Directions</p><p>Neil Sipe, Jago Dodson and Anitra Nelson</p><p>Index</p>