The book provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and shaping urban sustainability transitions.

1. Introduction Andrés Luque-Ayala, Simon Marvin and Harriet Bulkeley 2. Rethinking urban transitions: an analytical framework Andrés Luque-Ayala, Harriet Bulkeley and Simon Marvin Part I: Technologies, materialities, infrastructures 3. Seeking effective infrastructures of decarbonisation in Paris: material politics of socio-technical change Jonathan Rutherford 4. Legacies of energy autarky for low carbon urban transitions: a comparison of Berlin and Hong Kong Tim Moss and Maria Francesch-Huidobro 5. The amenable city-region: the symbolic rise and the relative decline of Greater Manchester's low carbon commitments, 2006-2017 Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin and Andy McMeekin 6. What is 'carbon neutral'? Planning urban deep decarbonisation in North America Laura Tozer Part II: Intermediation and governance 7. Reconfiguring spatial boundaries and institutional practices: mobilizing and sustaining urban low carbon transitions in Victoria, Australia Susie Moloney and Ralph Horne 8. Strong local government moving to the market? The case of low carbon futures in the city of Örebro, Sweden Mikael Granberg 9. Examining urban Africa's low-carbon and energy transition pathways Jonathan Silver and Simon Marvin 10. Localising environmental governance in India: mapping urban institutional structures Neha Sami Part III: Communities and subjectivities 11. Governing carbon conduct and subjects: insights from Australian cities Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk and Harriet Bulkeley 12. Cultural conflicts and decarbonisation pathways: urban intensification politics as a site of contestation in Ottawa Matthew Paterson and Merissa Mueller 13. Postdevelopment carbon Andrés Luque-Ayala Conclusions 14. Conclusions Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala and Harriet Bulkeley Index