The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global sustainable development. A wide array of...

Chapter 1. Challenges for a Liveable Urban World (Luigi Fusco Girard) -- Part I. Spotlights on Liveable Cities -- Chapter 2. Livable Cities: A Conceptual Modelling Approach (Dani Broitman) -- Chapter 3. Defining Indicator Systems for Liveable Cities (Rudolf Giffinger) -- Chapter 4. Three...

This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the...