Includes bibliographical references and index.

The growing importance of urban energy systems / Nilay Shah and James Keirstead -- Conceptualizing urban energy systems / James Keirstead -- A brief history of urban energy systems as exemplified by London / Paul Rutter -- Building energy service demands: the potential of retrofits / Mark G. Jennings -- Distributed multi-generation and district energy systems / Pierluigi Mancarella -- Bioenergy and other renewables in urban energy systems: potentials, conversion routes and future trends / Antonio M. Pantaleo, Nilay Shah and James Keirstead -- Urban transport technologies / Aruna Sivakumar, Salvador Acha and James Keirstead -- Modelling urban energy systems / Nilay Shah -- Optimization and systems integration / Nouri Samsatli and Mark G. Jennings -- Ecologically-inspired optimization modelling of urban energy systems / Nicole C. Paoaioannou -- Activity-based modellilng for urban energy systems / Aruna Sivakumar -- Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for urban energy systems models / James Keirstead -- Managing transitions in urban energy systems / James Keirstead -- Cities of the future / David Fisk -- Conclusion / James Keirstead and Nilay Shah -- Appendix A. Optimization techniques / Nouri Samsatli, Mark G. Jennings and James Keirstead.

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