Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities
Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City Series

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban decarbonisation, drawing upon more established, yet quite distinctive, fields of built environment policy and design, housing, and studies of social and economic change. Through this approach, policy and practices of housing affordability, equity, energy efficiency, resilience and renewables are critiqued and alternatives are presented. Drawing upon international case studies, this book provides a unique contribution to interdisciplinary urban and housing studies, discourses and practices in an era of climate change.

This book is recommended reading on higher level undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in architecture, urban studies, planning, built environment, geography and urban studies. It will also be directly valuable to housing and urban policy makers and sustainability practitioners.

1. Introduction: Housing sustainability in low carbon cities

Part I Perspectives, policies and transitions

2. Boundaries and blind spots: Measurement and assessment

3. Perspectives on housing sustainability in low carbon cities

4. Policy settings and approaches

5. Transitions to housing sustainability in low carbon cities

Part II Dynamics of housing sustainability

6. Housing production and practice

7. Households, consumption and carbon

8. Lifetime Affordable Housing in an era of carbon restraint

9. Home improvements: Low carbon retrofit and renovation

Part III Governance of housing sustainability in low carbon cities

10. Urban intensification, sustainability and the city

11. Smart, sustainable and resilient? — An ethical cities agenda

12. Governing household carbon

13. Housing sustainability in low carbon cities

Ralph Horne is Professor of Geography at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.