Planning After Petroleum ─ Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil

Planning after Petroleum charts the myriad of urban planning problems posed by petroleum depletion and identifies strategies and measures that can secure cities against rising oil prices. The book is founded in the growing scholarly and policy recognition that the world is facing an energy crunch, most sharply in the supply of petroleum. This crunch will accelerate oil prices with effects on national economies, and especially cities.

The book has four basic purposes. First the book seeks to fill gaps in the weak scholarly scientific literature on the challenge of petroleum depletion by collecting together leading authors on this topic into a focused dedicated volume. Second, the book adds to the urban planning and built environment literature via dedicated treatments of various aspects of planning, cities and petroleum depletion. Third, the book offers a raft of options and policies for practitioners who will be increasingly expected to resolve many of the urban challenges linked to higher oil prices. Fourth, the book seeks to report the authors' insights through robust and informative scholarship that is also accessible to a wide audience. The book has a deliberate international focus which actively includes comparative material to make it relevant across multiple planning and policy jurisdictions.

Jago Dodson is Professor of Urban Policy and Director of the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). He has extensive experience addressing theoretical and applied problems in housing, transport, urban planning, infrastructure, energy and urban governance. He advises agencies on urban policy and is prominent 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 an Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). She edited Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: Policy, Practice and Performance (2007, Ashgate), co-edited Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and Practice (2016, Earthscan/Routledge) and is writing Small is Necessary: The Efficiency of Shared Living (2017, Pluto Press).