Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Kassim, Shireen Jahn / Ibrahim, Illyani, Urban-Architectural Forms of Historic Southeast Asia: The Littoral Cities. 442 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-886>
ISBN 978-1-032-74603-6 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia-those that grew along coastlines, seascapes, and river confluences-evolved from a dynamic interplay of indigenous settlements, trade, and cultural exchange. These urban formations have historically defied easy categorization. For the first time, Jahn Kassim and Ibrahim systematically characterize a series of sites whose urban-architectural cores reflect a spectrum of evolution rooted in indigenous urbanism and architecture.Departing from traditional eco-urbanism themes, this book examines 20 cities and subregions that exemplify recurring morphological, architectural, and iconographical patterns-condensed through a historical and formal lens. Despite their diversity and apparent disorder, broad patterns emerge within these coastal urban landscapes. By using morphology as a tool, the book reveals how these dense, yet sustainable and bioclimatic, urban patterns from the past can inform contemporary approaches to regional planning, architecture, and visual expression-highlighting a localized, indigenous dimension to sustainability.Tracing their development from the 16th century onwards, the narrative moves through periods of colonial syncretism, external influences, and reverts to earlier, pre-classical origins-showing how sustainability and identity are rooted in fundamental climatic and cultural patterns.This book will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners across architecture, urbanism, cultural geography, design, visual arts, and Southeast Asian studies. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of coastal cities, emphasizing their enduring morphological and cultural signatures.

Tran, Hoai Anh / Yip, Ngai Ming, People-led Urban Development in Vietnam: Interstitial Practices and the Production of Differential Spaces in Hanoi. (Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series) 176 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-890>
ISBN 978-1-032-77180-9 hard ¥14,979.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book provides an analysis of urban development in Vietnam with a focus on activities carried out by ordinary people. Using Hanoi as a case study, the book offers a rich ethnographic account of people-led development emphasizing spatial practices of the emerging middle/lower-middle and small entrepreneurial class. Through integrating the concept of interstitial practice with Lefebvre's framework of the production of differential space, this study conceptualises the diverse and seemingly ad-hoc space-making activities of urban residents and situates them in relation to the state's disciplining projects through housing and urban planning. Moving beyond a simplistic, dichotomised discussion of informality and formality, temporality and permanence, the book highlights the tensions between the state visions of modernized urbanisation and everyday space-making practices of ordinary people. It offers a substantive narrative and an in-depth analysis of the power relations, social hierarchies, and complex interactions that are embedded within the differential spaces created by diverse interstitial practices in Hanoi.As a novel contribution to the literature highlighting entrepreneurialism of the subaltern, and the role of ordinary people in urban development, the book will be of interest to researchers of Vietnam's urban development, Southeast Asian Studies, Urban Studies and the Global South.

Dixon, Pauline / Humble, Steve, Urban Life in Delhi Slums: Stories of Community Solutions and Resilience. (Routledge Studies in Cities and Development) 252 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-901>
ISBN 978-1-032-74033-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organize to solve problems that arise in their neighbourhoods.Around one-quarter of the world's urban population live in informal, slum and squatter settlements, representing a significant economic and cultural force. Despite this, settlements are often perceived as marginal, homogenous places, overlooking the resilience and agency of the diverse actors, networks and social groups working collectively within them. This book draws on extensive qualitative and quantitative data from squatter and resettlement colonies in and around Delhi, foregrounding the voices of residents to build a bottom-up picture of place and urban development. The book analyses the contexts in which households operate within their communities, and the adaptiveness of individuals living in different slum types, with differing levels of governance. In doing so, the book demonstrates the effect which different institutional agreements and governance systems have on enterprise, empowerment, resilience, trust, dignity, and engaging in life that has purpose and meaning.This book's detailed assessment of slum spaces and networks will be of interest to researchers across a range of fields, including international development, geography, urban planning, politics, and sociology, as well as to policy makers and civil society organisations.

Krishna, C. Yamini, Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000. 250 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <750-910>
ISBN 978-1-009-58382-4 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

The book is about the reciprocal relationship between cinema and the city as two institutions which co-constitute each other while fashioning the socio-political currents of the region. It interrogates imperial, postcolonial, socio-cultural, and economic imprints as captured, introduced, and left behind by politics of cinema, in the site of Hyderabad. It traverses through the makings and remakings of Hyderabad as princely city, linguistic capital city, and global city, studied through capital, labour, and organization of the film industry. It brings together diverse, and rich historical material to narrate the social history of Hyderabad, over a hundred years.

Portugali, Juval, The Second Urban Revolution: Complexity, Cognition and the View From the Israeli-Palestinian Periphery. 400 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-940>
ISBN 978-1-0353-5011-7 hard ¥35,337.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

In this timely book, Juval Portugali ties together ancient archaeology with the present to explore the city as a phenomenon that has been rapidly increasing in power and importance since its earliest emergence. He links the walled cities of ancient civilization with modern-day borderless cities, while providing connections between modern nationalism and postmodern urbanism.With a specific focus on two urban revolutions, the first emergence of the city 5,500 years ago and the urban revolution we are currently undergoing, Portugali analyzes the shift to a global population residing predominantly in urban environments. He examines these two urban revolutions from the perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian periphery, in terms of complex-cognitive, self-organized systems. Ultimately, the book addresses how urbanism is becoming the driving force behind human life and consciousness for the first time in history and expresses a new theory of ancient and modern urbanism oriented around socio-spatial evolution.Investigating the interrelation between complexity theory and cognitive theory - and their connection to the city - this book is an enlightening read for scholars and students of urban studies, human geography, political geography and geopolitics, and urban economics. It is also a crucial resource for those researching cities and complexity.

Diko, Stephen Kofi / Asare Okyere, Seth et al. (eds.), Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 248 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-947>
ISBN 978-1-041-07659-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana's Small and Medium-sized Cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.The book argues that Ghana's urban future may have more to do with the steady growth of SMCs, where urban consolidation is gradually taking a foothold. Recognizing that Ghana's primary cities are well known to be socio-ecological hotspots of risk, reactive urban planning, and entrenched inequalities of alarming proportions, this book asks: would SMCs follow these troubling realities and trajectories in large cities or leapfrog to resilient futures that work for all? Through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributions emphasize the need for integrated planning strategies to navigate socio-ecological challenges and opportunities that SMCs face in terms of infrastructure, governance, and climate resilience. By centering overlooked and understudied SMCs in Ghana's urban scholarship, this book realigns resilience planning to the spaces and places emerging as the frontiers of socio-ecological crises. It will be of interest to students and researchers of city and regional planning, urban studies, geography, environmental studies and science, public policy, development studies, and public health, as well as urban planners, community development practitioners, geographers, environmental, disaster, and resilient personnel, and policymakers.

Friendly, Abigail, Claiming the Right to the City: Rethinking Urban Transformations in Brazil. 328 pp. 2025:10 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-976>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7190-7 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00

The right to the city - the freedom for all to occupy, govern, change, and enjoy the city and access its resources - is fundamental to genuinely inclusive democracy. Claiming the Right to the City critically explores attempts to redefine Brazil's planning model based on social justice.The Brazilian experience of profound urban challenges over the past forty years reveals the division between a theoretically acknowledged right to the city and the reality of urban policy, planning, and practice, within the context of economic inequality and unequal rights. Abigail Friendly highlights the role of urban social movements and participatory planning, and proposes an approach uniting institutions with bottom-up engagement of citizens, communities, and grassroots organizations to drive urban transformations.Claiming the Right to the City provides insight into how the right to the city is localized in practice, offering lessons that are broadly applicable to cities around the world.

Cunningham, Tim, Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict. 304 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-483>
ISBN 978-1-032-07648-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-07545-7 paper ¥14,131.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes how governments on both sides of the Atlantic entrenched racial and ethnic divisions through manipulation of the planning and design of the built environment.Based on interviews, never-before-seen documents, and field work carried out in Belfast, Miami, Washington DC, and New York City, this book shows how the planning and design of our streets and communities impacts the physical, mental, social, economic, political and environmental well-being of communities. Tim Cunningham, an urban scholar and human rights advocate, reveals how the British Army set about reconfiguring the urban fabric of Belfast as part of a counter-insurgency strategy in the 1970s that was to have profound consequences. By integrating colonial design principles into urban planning and architecture processes, racial and sectarian boundaries were enshrined in concrete. The outcome was that patterns of inequality and spatial deprivation were compounded as highway routing, street design, and the location of housing developments were used to further segregationist objectives. A global genealogy of segregation, the text highlights the real-life walls that cleave communities along ethnic and political lines-and urban designers and developers' role in erecting them.This book is ideal reading for courses in urban studies, community development, geography, conflict, architecture, human rights, Irish Studies, and city planning.

Glinka, Kamil / Cabada, L. / Klimovsky, D. et al. (eds.), Urban Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of the Visegrad Group Countries. 272 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-254>
ISBN 978-1-041-04902-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book provides a broad analysis of the important and ongoing issue of municipal self-governments' response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Visegrad Group countries with the special emphasis on the post-pandemic recovery. Focusing on municipal self-governments of the V4 countries - Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia - fills a pressing publishing gap. The monograph provides answers to the question whether the response of municipal self-governments in the Visegrad Group countries fits into a specific model and what are the features of this response.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics and policies with particular emphasis on the V4 counties, local self-government, urban policies, crisis management, Covid-19 pandemic response and recovery. The volume will be of great interest to practitioners, namely the representatives of local self-governments, non-governmental organizations and private entities operating at the urban level.

Han, Sun S. / Yan, Ning, Institutions, Culture and the Chinese City: The Unique Urban Development Trajectories of Modern China. (Cities) 288 pp. 2025:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-172>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1242-9 hard ¥29,683.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This informative book explores China's culture and institutions to discuss their impact on Chinese urbanisation in the post-1949 period. It reflects on the evolution of cities and highlights the role of party leaders and government ideology in shaping modern China.Sun Sheng Han and Ning Yan explore the mechanisms that have disrupted or enabled Chinese modernisation, including personal differences between leaders and inherent tensions in the political system. They assess how rational decision-making, inclusive institutions, land finance, and growth incentives lead to progress, and how the misalignment of these elements results in stagnation. Ultimately, the book reconstructs prominent urbanisation models to provide readers with a systematic and critical analysis of Chinese institutions, cultures, and cities whilst looking ahead to the future.Examining the development and myths of Chinese urbanisation, this book is a crucial read for scholars and students of urban studies, human geography, urban planning and China studies.

Kebede, Gulelat / Gauntner, Paterson, Tools for Spatial Economic Planning: A Guide for Urbanizing Countries. 282 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-212>
ISBN 978-1-032-81812-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-81814-6 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Urbanization is a transformative force reshaping the economies and societies of developing countries today. It has the potential to bring about powerful development dividends, but the rapid expansion of cities in countries where resources are limited is a pressing policy challenge. Guiding the evolving spatial and economic structure, and getting policy right is an urgent and high-stakes task.This book bridges spatial and economic planning, offering practical tools for both analysis and policymaking. It explores seven national and subnational policy instruments - such as National Development Plans, city master plans, and special economic zones - detailing their purpose, formulation, key components, and effectiveness. Additionally, it provides hands-on guidance on a wide variety of analytical tools, such as mapped overlays, location quotients, input-output analysis, metrics of inequality and segregation, gravity models, and scenario planning. These tools can help identify spatial trends, assess linkages, and inform policy decisions.With 26 case studies demonstrating real-world applications, this book serves as a resource for policymakers, development practitioners, and academics seeking to learn, develop the field of knowledge, and shape more effective spatial-economic policies.

Ampleman, Luc, Transport Diplomacy: Planning Narratives and Mobility Cooperation. 162 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-215>
ISBN 978-1-032-94651-1 hard ¥14,979.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book provides a concise guide to navigating, mapping, and understanding the complexity of political mechanisms and narratives behind transport cooperation.Transport is a constant political object of conflict, cooperation, and negotiation, irrespective of the type of transport or the place where the mobility of people and goods is an issue. The number of actors engaged in transport decision-making, and the technical nature of the mobility issues, appears to make cooperation between transport stakeholders increasingly complex. Drawing on clear analytical devices, visual tools and insightful illustrations, Transport Diplomacy navigates this complexity and considers a path towards a sounder dialogue in the transport arena. Providing accessible and digestible insights across six chapters, the book explores different semiotic dimensions of these transport planning narratives and cooperation processes.This offers practitioners, decision-makers, and researchers a common conceptual approach to the diplomatic dimension of transport planning. In doing so, it envisages transport planning as not only a procedural set of techniques to implement informed mobility solutions, but as a field of managing conflicting narratives and rhetoric by actors with diverging or compatible interests. This book will appeal to those working in transport, mobilities and planning.

中小規模の都市のための弾力的な都市計画ハンドブック
Asare Okyere, Seth / Diko, Stephen Kofi et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities. (Routledge International Handbooks) 510 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1027>
ISBN 978-1-032-94887-4 hard ¥65,021.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

Small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) are becoming the new frontiers of global urban growth and population change. Yet, they are overlooked in the policy and scholarship discourses about urban futures, particularly urban planning for resilient futures. This handbook aims to increase attention to the resilience of SMCs and explore the unique challenges they face, as well as provide practical recommendations for built environment practitioners to understand and respond to these challenges in global contexts. Chapters cover a range of important topics on the different dimensions of urban resilience such as climate-induced risks, heat resilience planning, access to urban infrastructure and services, socio-environmental inequities, urban safety, health resilience, walkability, and more. Contributors discuss ways to enhance policy and planning efforts to address these challenges and advocate for the need to pay attention to SMCs when promoting urban resilience to avert the risks often manifested in large cities. This handbook transcends disciplinary boundaries and expertise, bringing together a diverse range of contributions from scholars and practitioners in over fifteen countries across Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Oceania to counter the apparent paucity of attention on SMCs in the global resilience agenda. This handbook is essential for scholars and practitioners working in the built environment, such as city and regional planning, public policy, public health, environmental science, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, spatial planning, and geography.

クイアの地理学
Bain, Alison / Podmore, Julie / Arun-Pina, Chan (eds.), Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives. (Key Debates and Contending Perspectives) 368 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-1028>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2321-0 hard ¥36,751.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This timely book explores queer geographies at a critical juncture of societal and disciplinary self-reflection and transformation. It raises questions of justice and progress in the face of complex and ongoing social exclusions and ecological crises that necessitate change both within and beyond queer geographies.Leading experts incorporate the concepts of reorientation, relationality, replacement, and reconceptualization to provoke collaborative discussion across the globe, revisiting queer geographies' accomplishments and reworking established concepts. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book provides visual interventions to advance the reconfiguration of queer geographies and invites fluidity, openness, and dialogue across and between disciplines. Ultimately, this book showcases new lines of geographical inquiry and debate to envision alternative disciplinary futures that amplify queer and trans voices while displacing authority and privilege.Queer Geographies is an essential resource for scholars and students of sexual and gender minority life and queer theory, as well as women's and gender studies, cultural and environmental studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

周辺と周辺地域研究必携
Banski, Jerzy (ed.), Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions: Concepts, Diagnosis, Dilemmas. 336 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-1029>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3892-4 hard ¥53,713.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

This interdisciplinary Research Companion sheds light on territories located outside or far from urban centers. It discusses in detail the peripheralization occurring in these regions including low levels of social and economic progress, reduced infrastructure, migration outflow, and other challenges.Drawing on detailed case studies, the contributing authors assess contemporary socioeconomic, cultural and political structures; the root causes of spatial inequalities, including poor transport and the quantity of natural resources; and the threats that these marginal spaces pose to social cohesion. Expert contributors from a broad array of countries address diverse problems facing the periphery, such as depopulation and regional migration, inadequate rural funding, and marginalization. Ultimately, this Research Companion is a compendium of knowledge about the periphery that identifies, through a holistic approach, the key barriers in these regions.The Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions is a vital resource for scholars and students of human and economic geography, as well as development and regional studies. Practitioners and planners will also benefit from its insights on spatial development and local and regional expansion strategies.

Barnett, Jonathan, Redesigning Urban Centers: Adapting to Changing Real Estate Markets. 210 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1030>
ISBN 978-1-032-75786-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-75921-0 paper ¥10,173.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Redesigning Urban Centers: Adapting to Changing Real Estate Markets describes how well-managed places which offer clean, safe, and attractively designed streets and public spaces, along with reinvented zoning, are drawing real estate investors and developers to reimagined legacy downtowns, innovation districts, edge cities becoming real cities, suburban shopping streets turning into mixed-use centers, urban districts near airports, and bypassed downtowns relying on government support. Case studies from the Philadelphia metropolitan region, plus examples from across the U.S., demonstrate how designs which integrate offices, housing, shopping, hotels, and entertainment, along with cultural and other attractions, transform places where people have to be into places where people want to be.This book will interest leaders of business improvement districts and Main Street organizations, planning officials, urban design practitioners, and instructors and students of planning, economic development, and urban design.

都市設計の実践ハンドブック
O'Neill Robinson, Molly / Larice, M. A. et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice. 1104 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1040>
ISBN 978-0-367-82135-7 hard ¥60,780.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00
ISBN 978-0-367-82136-4 paper ¥18,089.- (税込) GB￡ 63.99

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice brings together diverse voices in urban design, emphasizing the urgent need for innovative approaches to address shared challenges, offering actionable steps to empower practitioners, students, and academics in creating vibrant and sustainable cities.The three-part structure of the Handbook guides the reader from foundations in urban design practice to an exploration of the great challenges confronting cities and people today closing with a consideration of the future of urban design. Part One: Urban Design Today offers a snapshot of historical influences, indirect design strategies, global perspectives, direct design strategies, and technological advances. Part Two: Urban Design Challenges includes perspectives on climate change and ecological design, public health, community change, social justice in urban design, economic resilience, and place quality. Part Three: Urban Design Tomorrow provokes deep thought on the state of the world and where urban design finds a place in making a better future. Each section of the book includes several chapters, which are preceded by introductions that situate and contextualize the writing to help the reader better comprehend the field. Each chapter defines a topic area, presents critical evaluation, and provides steps in practice that guide the reader toward a future that is more just, sustainable, and responsive. Following each chapter is a set of key summary messages that encapsulate central themes and suggestions for further reading that expand topical knowledge for the interested reader. The Handbook is comprised of over 100 new contributions on topics across urban design practice by a diverse array of authors from around the world. These voices represent the interdisciplinary nature of urban design: architects, planners, landscape architects, civil and transportation engineers, policymakers, and real estate developers. A glossary of built environment terms enriches urban design vocabulary, while cross-coding facilitates easy navigation to related materials for enhanced understanding. The Handbook serves as a go-to guide for urban designers seeking to expand their knowledge on special topics within and adjacent to their work, offering valuable insight into the methods and practices that are advancing urban design.The primary audience consists of practitioners, students, and academics interested in the practice of urban design. In addition to built environment professionals, the book will also be of interest to those taking part in the urban conversation: city leaders, public officials, civic and non-government organizations (NGOs), and engaged urbanists. The Handbook addresses how technological advancements and the big challenges are reshaping urban spaces, making it an essential resource for those involved in the transformation and future of our cities.

Sanchez, Thomas W., Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning. 260 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1042>
ISBN 978-1-032-76047-6 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76046-9 paper ¥10,173.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book aims to introduce planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies. AI now promises to reshape urban planning, but as with many technological innovations, AI also introduces ethical, practical, and organizational challenges. Understanding both AI's current capabilities and its limitations is essential for planners, even as we acknowledge the rapid and unpredictable nature of its evolution. Chapters address some of these complexities, not by providing definitive answers, but by introducing urban planners to core AI topics. The book shows how planners can effectively use AI in their daily practices, engage constructively with technical specialists, and critically assess the appropriateness of these technologies in different planning contexts. This book will be of interest to both urban planning professionals and researchers.

プラットフォーム・アーバニズム・ハンドブック
Smets, Annelien / Ballon, Pieter (eds.), Handbook of Platform Urbanism. (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies) 336 pp. 2025:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-1043>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1375-4 hard ¥53,713.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

This innovative Handbook provides an in-depth exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping cities worldwide. It presents a comprehensive analysis of data-driven urban life, evaluating how platforms including Uber, Airbnb and Google Maps mediate public services, economic activities and social interactions.Leading experts highlight the opportunities and challenges of urban platformisation, examining its economic, political and spatial implications through multidisciplinary insights. Chapters investigate key themes spanning governance, inequality, regulation and digital labour, drawing on a range of global case studies to critically assess how platform urbanism is redefining power structures and access to essential services. The Handbook showcases the influence of digital platforms on cities including Milan, Montreal and Sao Paulo, focussing on both Big Tech and community-driven alternatives. Ultimately, contributors use diverse methodologies to assess the socio-economic impact of these technologies in cities, analysing the dominance of major platforms alongside local initiatives.The Handbook of Platform Urbanism serves as a crucial reference for scholars and studies of urban studies, political economy, media studies and human and economic geography. Policymakers and practitioners in city governance and urban planning will also benefit from its valuable insights.

Swathika, O. V. Gnana / Karthikeyan, K. (eds.), Sustainable Cities: Paradigm of Digitalization. 464 pp. 2025:11 (CRC Pr., US) <750-1044>
ISBN 978-1-032-86118-0 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This book discusses concepts such as sustainable and smart ecosystems, climate change mitigation and adaptation, recycling and waste reduction involving collection, treatment, and recycling of wastewater. It further presents the case studies and applications of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.Features:* Discusses zero carbon structures and communities, climate change mitigation, intelligent infrastructure, and smart grids.* Highlights the importance of urban planning and design, rules, laws, accreditation, economics, and policy.* Covers critical infrastructure protection, encompassing difficulties with cyber-physical system stability, security, privacy, and forensics.* Showcases behaviour analysis, change, observation in urban communities, resilience, and social effects of cities.* Presents case studies on deploying big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in different sectors of smart cities.It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, environmental engineering, and computer engineering.

Ziaesaeidi, Parisa, Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 204 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1046>
ISBN 978-1-032-87695-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth explores social sustainability in neighbourhood design, with a particular focus on providing practical design recommendations to improve the lives of children and youth. This book provides insights from research, as well as practical, actionable design principles and strategies to create inclusive, child- and youth-friendly environments that foster social connections and community engagement.The book strongly emphasises how vibrant, engaged communities are linked to equity and long-term social and environmental sustainability. It explores how children and youth perceive social sustainability and the behaviour settings that support it. It outlines design principles and recommendations useful for creating spaces that prioritise their well-being and development, both as individuals and as community members. By addressing the unique needs and perspectives of young people, the book empowers urban professionals to develop neighbourhoods that are socially sustainable, inclusive, and resilient. It also touches on important topics like decolonisation, post-colonialism in design, co-design principles, and democratic design approaches and evaluates how current urban planning practices impact the design of spaces for young people.This book is an essential resource for urban planners, designers, architects, and landscape professionals who are committed to designing neighbourhoods that foster social connection, inclusivity, and sustainable community life-especially through meaningful children and youth engagement.

Wang, Ya Ping / Kintrea, Keith / Everatt, D. et al. (eds.), New Drivers of Division: Urbanisation and Spatial Inequality in Africa and Asia. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 295 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-902>
ISBN 978-981-9656-28-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Devi, Rama, Caste and Emancipatory Quest: Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood. 275 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-958>
ISBN 978-981-9608-31-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and achieve upward mobility, it presents structural constraints frustrating the march of Dalits to claim desired mobility. Through descriptive and nuanced accounts of various aspects of Dalit lives in urban, it foregrounds how caste permeates everyday city life. The book debunks the mirage of urban castelessness.

Crossey, Nora, Borderlands of Governance: Municipal Perspectives on Cooperation in the Saarland-Moselle Region. (Raeume - Grenzen - Hybriditaeten) 350 pp. 2025:4 (Springer VS, GW) <749-782>
ISBN 978-3-658-47809-4 paper ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Recognizing European cross-border cooperation as a complex multilevel governance shaped by both bottom-up and top-down processes, and viewing recent border-regional strategies as a catalyst for decentralizing cross-border relations in French-German border regions, this book examines municipal actors' perspectives in the "Greater Region", specifically the departement Moselle and the German Saarland. Bridging governance and border studies by adopting a lens of "borderlands of governance", it studies the contributions of intermunicipal cross-border governance to processes of bordering and "place-making" and to systems of multilevel cross-border governance. (In)formal intermunicipal cross-border networks - whose relevance and ingenuity became particularly evident during the Covid-19 pandemic - play a crucial role for the functioning of the borderspaces, in some instances evolving into "quasi-territorial" governance reflecting communities beyond national borders yet remaining bound to logics of territoriality and sovereignty. Here, the conceptualisation of "borderlands of governance" offers a framework for understanding them as contingent elements of multilevel cross-border governance.

Mehan, Asma (ed.), After Oil: A Comparative Analysis of Oil Heritage, Urban Transformations, and Resilience Paradigms. 584 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-242>
ISBN 978-3-031-92187-2 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book offers an academic analysis of the concept of heritage within the realm of oil-related urban development. It focuses on the term 'heritage', with a specific emphasis on 'oil heritage', exploring its varied implications for urban futures. The book provides a nuanced understanding of heritage, discussing its different interpretations and values across cultural and environmental contexts. It examines the legacy of oil, assessing its role and impact on societies. It presents a balanced view, acknowledging both the economic benefits of oil in urban growth and the environmental and socio-economic issues it poses. This approach places oil heritage within a broader heritage context, critically evaluating its unique characteristics. The book also investigates how various cultures perceive and engage with the idea of oil heritage. It highlights the contrast between the political debates over oil in Western countries and the developmental challenges faced by emerging economies, showcasing the global variance in the concept of 'oil heritage'. Additionally, the narrative considers the changing role and meaning of oil over time, reflecting on its historical importance and the challenges it poses for the future, especially in transitioning to a post-oil era. Through its chapters, the book provides a critical examination of the interplay between oil, urban development, and heritage studies. It is designed to contribute to scholarly discourse in these areas, targeting academics, students, policymakers, and professionals interested in the intricate relationship between oil heritage and urban dynamics.

地域科学における偉人　第3巻
Batey, Peter / Plane, David (eds.), Great Minds in Regional Science. Vol. 3. (Footprints of Regional Science) 196 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-259>
ISBN 978-3-031-90624-4 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book is the third volume in a series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science. This volume presents, among others, Walter Christaller, Benjamin H. Stevens, William Alonso, and Francois Perroux. Each chapter combines factual biographical information about the 'Great Mind,' a description of their major contributions, and a discussion of the broader context of their work, as well as an assessment of its current relevance, scientific recognition, and policy impact. The book attempts to fill a gap in our knowledge and to respond to the growing interest in the formation and development of the field of regional science and its key influential figures.

Ng'weno, Bettina Amilie, No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi. 300 pp. 2025:9 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1007>
ISBN 978-0-520-42320-6 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-42121-9 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through anti-urban ideologies that insist that the city cannot be home for most residents. Based on decades of experience in rapidly changing Nairobi, No Place Like Home in a New City traverses rivers, cemeteries, parks, railways, housing estates, roads, and dancehalls to explore how policies of anti-urbanism manifest across time and space, shaping how people live in Nairobi. With deeply personal insights, Bettina Ng'weno highlights how people contest anti-urbanism through their insistence on building life in the city, even in the current dynamic of ubiquitous demolition and reconstruction. Through quotidian practices and creative resistance, they imagine alternatives to displacement, create belonging, and build new urban futures.

Onoma, Ato Kwamena, The Undulating Capacity of the State: Autochthony and Infrastructure Development in African Cities. (Elements in the Politics of Development) 75 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-1008>
ISBN 978-1-009-69837-5 hard ¥14,131.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-69839-9 paper ¥4,805.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Awazi, Nyong Princely, Building Climate Resilient Communities Along Africa's Coasts: The Role of Mangroves. (Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies) 165 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1034>
ISBN 978-3-031-90842-2 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

The book "Building Climate Resilient Communities along Africa's Coasts: The Role of Mangroves" highlights the crucial role mangrove ecosystems play in enhancing climate resilience for coastal communities in Africa, which face rising sea levels, intensified storms, and habitat loss. With Africa's extensive coastline and dependence on coastal resources, mangroves are essential for protecting communities from environmental stressors, preserving biodiversity, and supporting livelihoods. Each chapter focuses on a specific coastal region in Africa, addressing local challenges, successful case studies, and strategies for integrating mangrove conservation into resilience planning. The book takes an integrative, community-centered approach, combining detailed analyses of mangroves with case studies from across Africa's coasts. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the unique ecological and cultural contexts of different regions. Local community engagement in mangrove restoration is covered, highlighting the value of traditional knowledge alongside modern conservation methods. The book also advocates for collaboration among governments, NGOs, and local stakeholders to develop effective policies. By offering actionable recommendations and showcasing the socio-economic benefits of healthy mangrove ecosystems, the book serves as a practical guide for decision-makers and practitioners, aiming to empower communities and inspire action in the fight against climate change and environmental degradation.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali / You, Nicholas / Allam, Z. et al., People-Centered Innovation: Local Actions for Sustainable Cities and Communities. (Urban Sustainability) 253 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1039>
ISBN 978-981-9652-29-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

As a follow-up to the book titled "Harnessing Urban Innovation to Unlock the Sustainable Development Goals", this collection examines transformative urban solutions through 15 internationally recognized case studies submitted to the 6th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation in 2023. It provides valuable insights into the driving forces behind sustainable urban development, aligning closely with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The main focus of the book is on people-centered approaches to urban innovation, demonstrating how grassroots initiatives can tackle complex urban challenges and contribute to global sustainability targets. Each case study presents innovative strategies implemented by communities worldwide, showcasing how local actions can greatly impact sustainability and resilience. The varied examples highlight a spectrum of urban issues, including affordable housing, sustainable transportation, climate adaptation, and social inclusion, reflecting the diverse nature of urban innovation. Key Features and Benefits: Varied Global Case Studies: The book includes fifteen case studies from different regions, each presenting unique solutions to urban challenges. These examples illustrate how various cultures and contexts address common problems, providing a rich array of ideas and practices. This makes it an essential resource for urban planners, policymakers, and community leaders seeking inspiration and guidance.Emphasis on People-Centered Approaches: The book emphasizes the importance of people-centered innovation, which prioritizes community involvement and local knowledge. By focusing on how local populations engage with and drive urban initiatives, the book highlights the significance of inclusivity and participatory processes in achieving sustainable outcomes. Alignment with the SDGs: Each case study is connected to specific Sustainable Development Goals, demonstrating how local actions contribute to global sustainability objectives. The book illustrates how grassroots initiatives address key areas such as poverty reduction, climate action, and sustainable cities and communities, highlighting the critical role of local efforts in achieving the broader SDG agenda.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali / Zuo, Jian / Sharifi, A. et al. (eds.), Designing Healthy Cities: Integrating Climate-Resilient Urbanism for Sustainable Living. (Urban Sustainability) 208 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-1040>
ISBN 978-981-9655-37-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book investigates how urban planning can promote inclusive, climate-resilient, and healthy communities. With cities worldwide battling the twin problems of increasing urbanization and the intensifying effects of climate change, this book offers a relevant, multidisciplinary framework for rethinking urban areas to support equity, well-being, and environmental sustainability. The book explores the connections between environmental resilience, urban planning, and public health, grounded in state-of-the-art research and enhanced by real-world case studies. It emphasizes how urgent it is for cities to adopt proactive, forward-thinking design strategies in order to both adapt to and lessen the effects of climate change. The book offers practical advice for designing areas that are useful and improve city dwellers' physical and emotional health by fusing sustainable urbanism with human-centered methodologies. The book emphasizes the necessity of adopting comprehensive, integrated approaches to urban development from a forward-looking standpoint. It urges people to change their perspective from seeing cities only as centers of economic activity to seeing them as living ecosystems that support and care for their residents. By doing this, the book hopes to motivate a new generation of urban leaders and thinkers who are committed to creating cities that coexist peacefully with the environment. It also gives the readers the essential knowledge and resources to help create a sustainable and resilient urban future, whether they are practitioners influencing urban policy or citizens who are enthusiastic about fostering healthier living conditions.

Antenucci, Ilia, Future-proofed: The Speculative Life of Smart Cities. 171 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1070>
ISBN 978-3-031-86428-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Efficient, inclusive, sustainable: these are only some of the concepts through which smart cities have been marketed globally, over the past fifteen years at least. But what has really driven smart city projects, governance, and economies? This book argues it is speculation: not merely finance, but a much broader technopolitical force seeking to calculate and shape the future. Smart cities have been testbeds for new technological products, governed through preemptive analytics, and fuelled by high-risk financial investments. Drawing on case studies from Kolkata and Cape Town, this book illustrates how smart city technologies speculate on the future to govern and monetise the present. Today, smart cities might have lost some of their hype already, but their legacies are here to stay, and their ethical and political implications appear more critical than ever. This book offers insights into the speculative forces that undergird urban 'smartness', and into their implications on everyday life, spatial justice, and citizens' rights.

Baykurt, Burcu, Smart as a City: The Politics of Test-Bed Urbanism. 222 pp. 2026:2 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1073>
ISBN 978-0-520-41324-5 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41325-2 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Smart as a City provides a rich ethnographic investigation into how smartness is received and negotiated by different groups in a midsize US city, examining the intersection of hardware, software, and the built environment. Burcu Baykurt follows the work of civic entrepreneurs, local residents, and city officials in Kansas City, Missouri, where Google tested a citywide gigabit service and the local government launched a series of smart city pilots in transportation, public housing, and municipal services. Providing a novel glimpse into an actually existing smart city, Baykurt redefines smartness as a collective effort to spotlight a city's enduring problems and to align local issues with the often buggy, partially developed systems offered by tech companies. She shows that the success of matching civic concerns with flawed tech systems is hard won and often ambiguous, and that the techniques of data capitalism extract rather than solve urban inequalities.

Canedo, Juliana, Co-producing Urban Spaces: Collaborative Methods Towards an Insurgent Urbanism. (Urban Studies) 220 S. 2025:6 (Transcript, GW) <749-1074>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7602-0 paper ¥10,593.- (税込) EUR 45.00

How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Soares Gomes Canedo analyses practices that arise from the protagonism of marginalized communities and the accumulative knowledge of academic and non-academic actors. This approach sees architects, urbanists, and other city-building professionals as co-producers of space that contribute to transforming society by co-developing experiences through the interaction with a complex set of actors aiming to create mutual learning environments. From a methodological perspective based on transdisciplinary experiences, she provides tools that can be used in interdisciplinary fields of study.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali, City Walks in Chongqing: Mapping a Multi-layered, Multi-identity, and Multi-locality City that Never Sleeps. (Urban Sustainability) 243 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1077>
ISBN 978-981-9660-41-4 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

City walks enable us to think and feel more intricately, and by living through them - hopefully less ostentatiously - through experiences and relations that genuinely matter. This sort of spatial syntagma is made of many correlations based on knowing what happens in cities, feeling what attributes are important, and articulating a set of relations to develop socio-spatial inter-relations and, ultimately, identities. In a way, "city walks" should empower cities to talk penetratingly while we hear, feel, and observe through experiences and thinking. Hence, city walks help the city talk. The City of Chongqing means a lot to me. It is a city that allows you to fall in love with a sense of urbanity for city life and experiences. It is a city that creates a distinguishable set of relations, both transient and abiding in many ways. It is a city with a different tone of heartbeat during the day and the night, a sort of vibration that lives through many arteries at different nodes, settings, and connections. It is a city of multiple networks - different from many other cities - that never sleeps. Most importantly, Chongqing has a unique magnitude of everything that a city can offer. It is a city that can be experienced differently every time you visit it, and you can live through those diminutive experiences via greater connections and expounded senses that exist but have to be experienced first. In this book, Chongqing is studied based on its sophistication of having multiple layers, multiple identities, and multiple localities. Hence, it is structured based on these three crucial aspects, including (urban) values, attributes, experiences, and livelihoods of Chongqing. This book is the first of its kind for a Chinese city and is aimed to reveal a genuine gem while accentuating with pride a city that never sleeps. This should be read and understood by scholars, urban researchers, and urban specialists seeking to develop better cities and communities. "Just Brilliant! Chongqing has never been portrayed any better than this book does so miraculously". - Tian Tang, Independent Researcher, China "Another unique mapping study by the author; and this time, through sensory and perceptible city walks of a global city - the beautiful city of Chongqing". - Aaron Golden, Independent Researcher, UK

Grubbauer, Monika / Manganelli, Alessandra et al. (eds.), Conflicts in Urban Future-Making: Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change. (Urban Future-Making) 364 S. 2024:12 (Transcript, GW) <749-1080>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7467-5 paper ¥9,416.- (税込) EUR 40.00

Under conditions of heightened uncertainty, cities face enormous challenges in responding to contemporary crises. The contributors to this volume explore the conflictual dynamics that arise when urban futures are imagined, negotiated, and materialized. Through the lens of urban future-making, they provide a timely analysis of the conflicts that shape planning projects, architectural interventions, and new experiments in the built environment. Their analyses show how urban future-making is conditioned by conflicting governance arrangements, actor constellations, and power dynamics - offering rich insight into the critical role of professionals as key agents of urban transformation.

Harris, Mike S., Mixed-Use Megaprojects and the Competitive City. 368 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-1081>
ISBN 978-981-9644-82-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the motives and outcomes of competitively positioned mixed-use megaprojects on government-owned land. These projects have emerged worldwide in recent decades, driven by urban international competition, the mobility and expansion of knowledge economies, the shift of global investment from physical to human capital, and the prevalence of market-driven or entrepreneurial politics. Six case studies across three countries are analysed through five themes: Positioning, Governing, Shaping, Connecting, and Public Benefit. While pursuing similar objectives of attracting mobile capital, each project operates within a specific political, financial and social context. These projects reflect the prevailing development practices and underlying power structures of cities and states. Throughout the implementation process, they can also reveal the power struggles and competing agendas within a city. In this manner, they serve as a valuable lens for understanding the political, economic, and cultural dynamics of a city, and how urban morphology manifests these processes.

Kuehne, Olaf / Berr, Karsten / Edler, Dennis et al., Neopragmatism - Inverse Landscape - (Carto)graphic Representation: From Critique to Further Development. (Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies 2) 115 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <749-1082>
ISBN 978-3-031-89401-5 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Landscape appears stable and consistent. At least, this is a common perception of landscape. This view ignores the contingency of landscape, which is evident in the past and future as well as in the present and not just in relation to the physical spaces into which 'landscape' is projected but also in relation to social constructions and individual experience. The contingency of landscape becomes clear in inverse landscapes, which illustrate states and processes that are not impossible, but also not requisite. In this way, inverse landscapes form a tool for operationalizing the neopragmatist idea of expanding contingency. The concept of inverse landscape is subjected to criticism in various ways, from internal criticism to metatheoretical criticism to life-related pragmatic criticism. This critique is performed from an interdisciplinary perspective. The aim of this book is to further develop the concept, both regarding a more differentiated understanding of the contingency of landscape and also concerning the question of how it can help to solve practical problems in the context of 'landscape'.

Zehner, Nicolas, Envisaging Dataist Modernity: The Construction of Edinburgh's Innovation Apparatus. (Science Studies) 288 S. 2025:3 (Transcript, GW) <749-1087>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7529-0 paper ¥11,534.- (税込) EUR 49.00

The Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal (CRD) constitutes a long-term infrastructure investment that is designed to transform the city region into the >>Data Capital of Europe

Blakey, Joe / Barron, Amy (eds.), Aesthetics and the City. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 232 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-97>
ISBN 978-1-032-37235-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed.This book celebrates and ponders the wide diversity of aesthetic approaches within urban studies, noting that the way aesthetics is understood impacts what can be understood about cities and the urban order more generally. In its most general sense, aesthetics refers to our sensuous relation to the world. It invariably figures in how we make sense of the city and ourselves-bound to how urban life is experienced imaginatively, materially, socially, culturally, and politically. In an era where scholars have expressed concern at epistemological city-centrism, aesthetics is proposed as a versatile concept through which the centrality of the city to urban thought can be assessed. The book also explores how aesthetics intersects with a range of tangential concepts including power, the political, art and affect. Ultimately it makes the case that this diverse ensemble of approaches to aesthetics can enable scholars to understand the city and its enduring relevance to urban thought.This book focuses on the concepts of 'aesthetics' and 'the city' and will appeal to scholars and students in urban studies, human geography, planning, politics, and sociology.

Martinez, Diana Jean S, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines. 296 pp. 2025:9 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-670>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2901-4 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3238-0 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Nambissan, Geetha B. / Manjrekar, Nandini et al. (eds.), Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India. (Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches) 375 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-694>
ISBN 978-1-009-59689-3 hard ¥31,097.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

Shifting Landscapes is a rich, multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, adding value to the growing scholarship on broader connections between urbanisation and education. As cities have continued to develop, their spatial, social and cultural landscapes have also evolved to adapt to the global capitalist needs. Education has been an integral part of these transformations, and the upheavals within the education sector have given rise to privilege and exclusion in schooling and growing marginality of the poor. The volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial and educational inequalities in cities intersect. The chapters bring together diverse contexts to address the heterogeneity of urban social reality in India and similarly document the changes in educational access, provision, aspirations and politics in several parts of the country. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Stiphany, Kristine / Ely-Ledesma, Edna (eds.), Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas. 280 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-774>
ISBN 978-1-032-55381-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-55382-5 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas, Kristine Stiphany and Edna Ely Ledesma offer a new perspective on the empirics of struggles to design cities that are inclusive and equitable.From Brazil's favelas to Ecuador's barrios, and Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered shores to the gentrified centers of U.S. cities, there have been radical struggles of the marginalized to challenge and reimagine the norms of urban planning. Over decades, these same struggles have become part of planning itself. Each chapter's account of insurgency provides empirical detail about how acts of resistance evolve across housing occupations, grassroots knowledge-sharing, ecological revolutions. Stiphany and Ely-Ledesma provide a way of understanding how the marginalized mobilize their sociospatial systems-such as housing, markets, policies, and urban morphology-to participate in the change that is transforming their own communities. Through powerful field research and firsthand activism, contributors reveal how insurgencies not only resist but actively reshape urban orders, built environments, and public landscapes-issuing a compelling call to make urbanism matter.This book is essential for students and instructors of urban planning and design, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and social justice studies, as well as city planning and urban design practitioners.

Keenan, Jesse M., North: Climate Migration and the Future of American Urbanism. 256 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <748-790>
ISBN 978-0-19-764160-6 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-764161-3 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 27.95

持続可能性のための計画　第3版
Wheeler, Stephen, Planning for Sustainability: In the Time of Populism, Inequality, and Climate Crisis. 3rd ed. 506 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-801>
ISBN 978-1-032-76366-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76364-4 paper ¥16,676.- (税込) GB￡ 58.99

How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This challenge deepens in an era of right-wing populism, high levels of inequality, and climate crisis.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of sustainability planning. The text explores how we might create more livable cities and towns, curtail greenhouse gas emissions, reduce social inequities, restore ecosystems, and bring about more sustainable forms of economic development.More than simply a Third Edition, Planning for Sustainability has been extensively rewritten to provide a timely rethinking of sustainability planning, issues central to it, and scales of application. It emphasizes system change in order for other forms of progress to come about, and includes expanded material on climate action, housing, social equity, capitalism, democracy, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and the developing world.Planning for Sustainability considers each scale of planning-international, national, regional, municipal, neighborhood, and site and building-and illustrates how action at different scales interrelates. It lays out a hopeful and constructive view of the future in a time of growing challenge, and will be essential reading for students and practitioners of urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, environmental policy, and related fields.

Cunha, Natalia / Magalhaes, Manuela (eds.), Planning Rural Landscapes: Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Nexus. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 272 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <748-812>
ISBN 978-1-032-95182-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining Green Infrastructure (GI) in rural landscapes, showing how it underpins Ecosystem Services (ES) and aligns with various EU directives. There are presented examples in Portuguese rural landscapes alongside international initiatives from several countries.Building on the concept of landscape as an open, autopoietic system with distinct resilience thresholds, the book demonstrates how GI serves as a versatile framework to support ES, implement Nature-Based Solutions and the more recent Nature Futures Framework scenarios. Through real-world studies, the authors illustrate its flexibility and applicability across different scales and environments while respecting each location's unique characteristics.Written for planners, designers, policymakers, and academic institutions, this book offers a valuable resource for supporting sustainable land management, public policy formulation, planning, and innovative design practices, fostering informed debate on these topics and advancing eco-conscious initiatives for a sustainable future.

Katuk, Norliza / Nordin, Noradila / Habbal, Adib (eds.), From Smart Cities to the Metaverse: A Journey Through Cybersecurity, AI, and Urban Sustainability. 260 pp. 2025:9 (CRC Pr., US) <748-816>
ISBN 978-1-041-02545-0 hard ¥53,713.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00
ISBN 978-1-041-02543-6 paper ¥14,131.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the convergence between smart city infrastructure and the emerging metaverse. This book highlights the importance of integrating advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, and blockchain to enhance urban living experiences while addressing such innovations' security and ethical challenges. Its applications span urban planning, transportation, education, historic preservation, and inclusive city development, making it an essential resource for modern urban development.The book covers many key areas critical to understanding and implementing smart cities and the metaverse. It starts with both domains' foundational concepts and technological underpinnings, followed by a deep dive into the security infrastructure and challenges smart cities face. Cybersecurity is given special attention, exploring motives and methods of cyber attacks and proposing mitigation techniques and best practices. The book also examines AI chatbots, intelligent transportation, and the integration of digital twins, providing practical case studies and insights. Furthermore, it addresses the socio-economic implications, governance, and ethical considerations, ensuring a holistic approach to the subject.The motivation for writing this book stems from the author's recognition of the transformative potential of smart cities and the metaverse in creating sustainable, efficient, and inclusive urban environments. By bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical application, the author aims to equip researchers, policymakers, and technologists with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate and shape the future of urban living in a digitally interconnected world.

Knoblauch, Hubert / Sommer, Vivien / Pfetsch, B. (eds.), Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces: The Dynamics of Refiguration. (The Refiguration of Space) 372 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-818>
ISBN 978-1-032-86816-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume explores the refiguration of space as a theoretical framework, presenting empirical studies on spatial conflicts and emerging conflictual spaces across different regions and scales. It contains contributions which follow varied theoretical threads and represent different geospatial standpoints, but which relate to the thesis of the refiguration of space as a new phase of globalization.By adopting a spatial lens, the book offers insights into the dynamics of social order in the post-globalization era, examining how conflicts arise within space and how spatial dynamics shape social tensions. The chapters unpack the interplay between human aspirations and geographical limitations and use the concept of (re)figuration to underline the trans-scalar dimension of most social conflicts, which is massively expanded by digital mediatization, public communication and its refigured infrastructures. While emphasizing the empirical analysis of conflicts in space, the edited volume also seeks to identify general principles of the spatial dynamics of social conflicts. It is this 'spatial logic' underlying conflictual situations that the book addresses with the term 'spatial conflicts.'This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, communication studies, political science, and globalization and peace studies.

Pojani, Dorina / Hautamaeki, Ranja, Planning as Political Theatre: Chronicle of Two Megaprojects Foretold. (Routledge Focus on Urban Studies) 100 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <748-823>
ISBN 978-1-041-02614-3 hard ¥14,979.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

This book examines two large and highly controversial urban infill projects in two peripheral European capitals-Tirana and Helsinki-through the lens of dramaturgy and political theatre. The authors argue that the planning processes in both cities have been farcical, following the so-called 'disillusionment arc' in storytelling-that is, coming to terms with the inevitability of private developments where vast sums of money are at stake and power does not rest with the people. Beyond these case studies, the book introduces the concept of 'planning distortion' which blends socio-institutional phenomena such as corruption, neoliberalism, and undemocratisation. It will appeal to planning theorists and readers interested in the European periphery, particularly the Nordics and the Balkans.

Ramos, Stephen J., Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism. 288 pp. 2025:11 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-824>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9010-0 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9011-7 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and place in the United States. In the South, Jim Crow brutality and agriculture crisis fueled unprecedented population outmigration. Sociologist and author Howard W. Odum founded the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina to develop a Southern regionalism that reasserted organic territorial culture amid that flux. Regionalism connected the arts, humanities, and social sciences across the country in a collective effort to elevate place-based narrative and folk sensibility to an all-encompassing social theory. Stephen J. Ramos refocuses the history of US regionalism and regional planning on the South, illuminating the modern tensions inherent in regionalism as nostalgic cultural practice paired with future-oriented planning ideology. By tracing Southern regionalists' intellectual history and institutional biography, Ramos explores how they developed a regional-nationalism through survey and plan that came to inspire federal New Deal policies for the South. In showing how Odum's influence crossed regional and national borders, Ramos offers us a nuanced way to reappraise race, social science, and planning in the US South.