With cities and regions moving away from fossil-nuclear energy sources, the importance of energy-ecological urban transformation is growing. A growing number of stakeholders are committed to transitioning energy supplies to renewable sources and promoting resource-efficient ecological cycles in their communities. Energy-ecological urban transformation directly improves living and environmental conditions in neighborhoods, creates new economic opportunities, and generates jobs. Cities are being transformed into 'energy cities' that adhere to the principles of sustainability, minimizing energy-ecological footprints, and reducing land consumption.

This book envisions future scenarios of urban transformation for stakeholder discourse. It provides a cross-disciplinary description of urban planning, engineering, and economic approaches to energy-ecological urban transformation, including methodological solutions. Numerous interesting project examples are presented to illustrate these concepts.

The target audience for this book includes municipal administrations and climate protection managers, planning and engineering firms, environmental organizations, as well as students and educators. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

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Prof. Dr. Dagmar Everding, Hochschule Nordhausen

Architect and planner, member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Land Use Planning, with extensive experience in planning practice and planning law, as well as expertise in solar urban design, energy-efficient and ecological construction, and sustainable regional development.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter D. Genske, Hochschule Nordhausen

Dieter D. Genske accepted a call to TU Delft (Netherlands) in 1994, then moved to ETH Lausanne (Switzerland), before finally helping to establish the new curriculum at the young university in Nordhausen, Thuringia. He was involved in major projects such as the new parliamentary quarter in Berlin, the International Building Exhibition IBA Emscher Park, the project "Basel on the way to the 2000-Watt Society," the International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg, and the Lake Constance-Alp Rhine Energy Region BAER. In 2012, he and his team received the European Solar Prize.

Prof. Dr. Ariane Ruff, Hochschule Nordhausen

Ariane Ruff was appointed to Hochschule Nordhausen in 2019. She represents the Chair of Urban Resources, which is part of the Faculty of Engineering. Since April 2019, she has been leading the newly founded Thuringian Innovation Center for Materials (ThIWert). She has extensive experience and expertise in the areas of land and energy management, sustainable spatial development, handling geodata and GIS systems, as well as circular economy, recycling, and resource efficiency.