This book addresses key issues across the field of sustainable urban planning with the aim of providing a unique reference tool for planners, engineers, architects, public administrators, and other experts. The evolution of cities and communities is giving rise to pressing energy and environmental problems that demand concrete solutions. In this context, urban planning is inevitably a complex activity that requires a sound analytical reading of ongoing developments, multidisciplinary analysis of the available tools and technologies, appropriate political management, and the ability to monitor progress objectively in order to verify the effectiveness of adopted policies. Green Planning for Cities and Communities is exceptional in the breadth of its coverage and the way in which it highlights the interactions among different elements. Individual sections focus on strategies and tools for green planning, energy efficiency and sustainability in city planning, sustainable mobility, rating systems, and the smart city approach to improve urban-scale sustainability. The authors draw on extensive practical experience to provide operational content to the theoretical and methodological elements covered in the text, and each section is enriched by informative case studies.

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Giuliano Dall'O' is a Full Professor of Building Physics at the Politecnico di Milano (DABC), Milan, Italy, and an expert and consultant in many areas related to energy conservation, energy efficiency, use of renewable energies in buildings, sustainability in the building sector, and the smart city approach. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 technical books and more than 200 technical papers, many of which are Scopus- or WOS-indexed. His publications include the previous Springer book Green Energy Audit of Buildings: A guide for a sustainable energy audit of buildings. He is one of the leading authorities, at both the national and European level, on the energy certification of buildings. His areas of expertise include: Energy and Sustainable Planning, Sustainable Energy Action Plans (Covenant of Majors), Energy Certification of Buildings, Energy Audit and Green Energy Audit of Buildings, Zero Energy Building Design, and Smart Cities. Since November 2017, Professor Dall'O' has been President of the Green Building Council Italia, an association that promotes LEED and other certification protocols for buildings and territories (neighborhoods and cities) throughout Italy.      

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Section 1 Strategies and tools for green planning of cities and communities 2.- Energy and environmental planning strategy: a complex framework 3.- Methodologies and tools for green energy planning 4.- Covenant of Majors and SEAPs 5.- Risk assessment and disaster recovery: the contribution of green planning 6.- Circular economy in energy planning 7.- Using International Standard for planning and manage energy and sustainability in cities. Section 2 Energy efficiency and sustainability in city planning 8.- Methodologies and tools for the evaluation of energy efficiency at the urban scale 9.- Defining the energy retrofit strategies 10.- The role of renewable energy sources in urban planning  11.- Evaluation of the energy retrofit potentials 12.- A Multi-Criteria approach to support Public Administration on energy planning. Section 3 Sustainable mobility for cities and communities 13.- Sustainable mobility action plan: concepts e strategies 14.- The infrastructures for electric mobility 15.- The interconnection nodes for sustainable mobility. Section 4 Rating systems for green planning of cities and communities 16.- How to measure and monitor sustainability in cities 17.- Rating systems for buildings 18.- Rating systems for cities and neighbourhoods 19.- Rating systems for infrastructures. Section 5 The "smart city" approach to improve urban-scale sustainability 20.- What is a smart city: definitions and strategies 21.- Technologies and services for the smart city 22.- Rating systems and indicators for the evaluation of the city smartness 23.- Conclusions, Appendix.