Planning After Petroleum

Jago Dodson is Professor of Urban Policy and Director of the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). His work has addressed theoretical and applied problems in housing, transport, urban planning, infrastructure, energy and urban governance. He has advised governments on urban policy and is active in scholarly and public debates about Australian cities.Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). His research interests include transport and land-use planning, natural resource management and international comparisons of planning systems.Anitra Nelson is Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). She edited Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: Policy, Practice and Performance (2007), co-edited Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and Practice (2016, Earthscan/Routledge) and is writing Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (2017).

"When future generations look back on today’s struggle to move off oil as the lifeblood of global society, they will wonder why it took so long for people to see the writing on the wall and find a better way to power the engines of human endeavor. This volume makes an important contribution to that writing on the wall and presents promising tools needed to deal with our energy problems. If contemporary economic and political leaders can learn from the thoughtful approaches in this book, the inevitable post-carbon future that awaits will bring a brighter day for human civilization."Anthony Perl, Professor of Urban Studies & Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsForewordBrendan GleesonIntroduction1. Investigating Cities After Oil: Planning for Systemic Urban Oil VulnerabilityJago Dodson, Neil Sipe and Anitra NelsonPart I. Energy Horizons2. A Stormy Petroleum Horizon: Cities and Planning Beyond Oil Jago Dodson3. The Paradox of Oil: The Cheaper it is, the More It CostsSamuel Alexander 4. Institutional Planning Responses to a Confluence of Oil Vulnerability and Climate ChangeTony Matthews and Jago Dodson 5. Energy Security and Oil Vulnerability ResponsesJago Dodson and Neil Sipe6. Post-Petroleum Urban JusticeWendy Steele, Lisa de Kleyn and Katelyn SamsonPart II. Transport and Land Use7. Walking the CityJohn Whitelegg8. Cycling Potential in Dispersed CitiesJennifer Bonham and Matthew Burke 9. Children’s Active Transport: An Upside of Oil Vulnerability?Scott Sharpe and Paul Tranter10. Public Transport Networks in the Post-Petroleum EraJohn Stone and Paul Mees11. Oil and Mortgage Vulnerability in Australian CitiesJago Dodson and Neil Sipe12. Outer Suburbs, Car Dependence and Residential Choice in FranceBenjamin Motte-Baumvol and Leslie Belton-Chevallier13. Greenspace After Petroleum: From Freeways to GreenwaysJason ByrneIII. Urban Systems14. Local Energy Plans for Transitions to a Low Carbon FutureBrendan F.D. Barrett and Ralph Horne15. Motor Vehicle Fleets in Oil Vulnerable Suburbs: A Prospect of Technology InnovationsTiebei Li, Neil Sipe and Jago Dodson16. Energy for CitiesCheryl Desha and Angela Reeve17. The Role of Telecommunication in Post-Petroleum Planning Tooran Alizadeh18. Peak Oil: Challenges and Changes for the Air Transport IndustryDouglas Baker, Nicholas Stevens and Md. KamruzzamanConclusion19. Planning and Petroleum Futures: Research DirectionsNeil Sipe, Jago Dodson and Anitra NelsonIndex