1 Introduction
1. 1 Background
1.2 Research objectives and key questions
1.3 Organization of the book
2 Theoretical background
2.1 Conceptual basis
2.2 Estimation of urban energy consumption and analysis of the relationship with urban form
2.3 Prediction of future energy consumption
3 Introduction of the study area
3.1 Overview of energy consumption in China
3.2 Study area
3.3 Data
4 Methodology
4.1 Quantification of urban form
4.2 Exploration of the relationship between urban form and energy consumption
4.3 Prediction of energy consumption
5 Results
5.1 Urban forms
5.2 The quantitative relationship between urban form and energy consumption
5.3 Future energy consumption
6 Discussion and conclusion
6.1 Methodology implications
6.2 Recommendations
6.3 Outlook
References
Appendix