Energy and Sustainable Futures

Chapter 1. Introduction: The City as a Multifaceted and Dynamic Constitutional Entity.- Part I. Cities Within National Power Structures.- Chapter 2. Cities and the Dutch Constitution.- Chapter 3. Modes of Urban Autonomy: The Constitutional Characteristics of Self-Governance in Amsterdam, Paris and Hamburg.- Chapter 4. Reanimating Brussels: The Beating Heart of the Belgian Federation.- Chapter 5. How much Local Autonomy is Good for a City? An Analysis of the Peruvian Constitutional Design for Cities and its Effects in the Case of the Lima.- Chapter 6. Comparative Constitutional Politics in Hong Kong and Macau under Chinese Sovereignty.- Chapter 7. A Tale of Three Cities: The City in German Constitutional Law.- Part II. Cities and Citizens.- Chapter 8. The Constitution and the City: Reflections on Judicial Experimentalism Through an Urban Lens.- Chapter 9. Urban Governance and the Right to a Healthy City.- Chapter 10. Topical Storm Approaching: Regulating Public Assemblies and Respondingto Online Falsehoods in the City State of Singapore.- Chapter 11. The City of London: Dominance, Democracy and the Rule of Law?.- Part III. Cities and the International Arena.- Chapter 12. Accelerating Cities, Constitutional Brakes? Exploring the Local Authorities between Global Challenges and Domestic Law.- Chapter 13. European Cities between Self-Government and Subordination: Their Role as Policy-Takers and Policy-Makers.- Part IV. Constitutional Law in the Age of the City.- Chapter 14. Urbanization, Megacities, Constitutional Silence.- Chapter 15. Redrawing the Boundaries of City Governance: Preliminary Lines of Inquiry into Metropolitan Cities, Socio-Economic Challenges and Constitutional Law.

Dr Iosif Mporas is a Senior Lecturer in Information Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire since 2016. He holds a Ph.D. (2009) and a 5-years Diploma (2004) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. His expertise is in signal processing and machine learning applications. He has participated in several R&D projects (H2020, FP7, commercial) in the areas of ICT, self-adaptive and intelligent systems as PI or senior researcher. He has served as Guest Editor in journals and as General Chair or Organiser of international conferences and workshops. Dr Mporas has published more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings cited more than 1000 times (h-index: 16).
Prof Pandelis Kourtessis is Director of the Centre for Engineering Research and Head of the Cognitive Networks Research Lab. He has a research track record in Next Generation Passive Optical Networks, Optical and Wireless MAC Protocols, 5GRadio Access Networks, Software Defined Network & Network Virtualization 5G and Satellite Networks and Machine Learning for Next Generation Networks. Prof Kourtessis has been the PI of FP7, H2020, ESA, UKRI and industrially funded projects such as FP7 ACCORDANCE, FP7 BONE, ESA SATin5G, ESA Bx WiFi and H2020 MC COFUND/DTA3. He has served as general chair, co-chair, technical programme committee member and at the scientific committees and expert groups of IEEE workshops and conferences, European technology platforms and European networks of excellence.

Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh is Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems within the Product Design team at Nottingham Trent University. He is also the national Director of DTA-Energy (Doctoral Training Alliance). His research and teaching activities focus on several multi-disciplinary topics in the broad area of product design and innovation, automation, energy, condition monitoring and artificial intelligence. Amin is the Director of the Product