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

Deuskar, Chandan / Murray, Sally / Molano, J. S. L. et al., Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization. (Urban Development) 168 pp. 2025:8 (World Bank, US) <753-441>
ISBN 978-1-4648-2222-3 paper ¥8,653.- (税込) US$ 43.95

This report estimates the costs of key resilient and low-carbon urban investments in all low- and middle-income countries up to 2050. It discusses how cities can reduce the cost of these investments through efficient investment, and explores which sources of funding and finance are suited to which types of urban investments.

持続可能な都市のための輸送の安全性－鉄道の駅における人々、経路、場所
Ceccato, Vania / Sundling, Catherine / Gliori, Gabriel, Transit Safety for a Sustainable City: People, Paths and Places in Railway Stations. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 308 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <753-445>
ISBN 978-3-031-97426-7 hard ¥12,371.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book paves the way for transformative strategies that increase the role of railway stations and other related transit environments in contributing to the global goals for sustainable development (the UN's sustainability goals in Agenda 2030). Drawing on insights from a Swedish case, this book adopts a systems thinking approach to investigate how environments impact transit safety and provide strategies to address the diverse safety needs of users. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, including field inspections, analysis of official data, questionnaire surveys, and interviews. These data sources are analysed using statistical techniques, GIS mapping, and regression modelling. Building on these findings, the book also critically examines how future railway station designs are currently being planned to enhance accessibility and safety. This book answers the following questions: Why are certain station environments perceived as more unsafe than others, even though fewer crimes are committed there? Why do different groups of travelers differ about victimization and safety? From a governance perspective, what would make these places safer? What are the patterns of victimization of vulnerable groups, such as women and individuals with disabilities? The findings have international resonance as this book demonstrates the connection between safety and sustainability, offering useful insights and recommendations for researchers, practitioners and policymakers committed to shaping safer, more inclusive transit environments.

Chen, Wanzhen / Wang, Xue, Harnessing Big Data in Urban Public Space: Analytics and Evaluation. (Public Economy and Urban Governance in China) 181 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-308>
ISBN 978-981-9681-37-2 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book advocates new and advanced methods of big data technology so as to analyze the current status of the public space development in China. In the eight chapters of this book, it introduces the theories to develop urban public space, the tools for analytics and evaluation, the cases from China especially Shanghai and global. With analytics and evaluation tools for its scale, space layout, and planning, it aims to improve the quality, efficiency and balanced development of public services such as healthcare and elementary education, serving as the reference and support for decision-making of governments.

Muzorewa, Terence Tapiwa, Neo-Liberal Urban Development in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Private Developers and the Emergence of Ruwa Town. 218 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-341>
ISBN 978-981-9670-42-0 hard ¥37,121.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book investigates the role of private land developers in the development of Ruwa Town in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Whereas other post-colonial established towns in the country emerged from direct public investment through the Growth Point policy, Ruwa emerged from a public-private partnership approach. The development of Ruwa Town is therefore a valuable example of a new post-colonial experience in urban planning and development, which is a clear departure from the colonial town planning which was premised on racial segregation. This book offers unique insights into the historical context, the role of private developers in the growth of the city, the impact of their involvement, bringing a comparative analysis with state-led development. It offers a valuable contribution to the field of urban studies, particularly within the context of urban development in post-colonial Zimbabwe and in Africa.

Zhang, Weiwen / Zhang, Yongping, Digital Urban Governance in China: Foundations and Applications. (Qizhen Humanities and Social Sciences Library) 138 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1324>
ISBN 978-981-9663-24-8 hard ¥39,596.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book is one of the first efforts to systematically introduce digital urban governance in China. It describes the theoretical system and historical development and evolution of digital urban governance, analyzes the complex relationship between cutting-edge technologies, new types of data, and urban governance, provides rich research cases to guide governance practice, and further discusses the future opportunities and potential challenges of digital urban governance from the perspective of artificial intelligence and open data movement. This book helps to promote the transformation and upgrading of urban governance research paradigms and can also actively serve the major national and local strategies in China, such as new urbanization, digital China, and digital reform.

Budianta, Melani / Budiman, M. / Oester Znoj, K. (eds.), A Liveable Kampung: The Challenges of Urban Expansion in Greater Jakarta and East Nusa Tenggara. (Engaging Indonesia) 218 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1327>
ISBN 978-981-9678-65-5 hard ¥12,371.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book investigates the challenges and innovations of urbanised kampungs (villages) in Indonesia and how they create a liveable environment during rapid urban expansion. Focusing on urban informal settlements on the fringes of Jakarta, and desa-kota villages in Ende, the collection discusses various aspects of liveability, which includes water, waste and sanitation management, food and nutrition. The volume also examines the way kampungs operate within the fast-paced urbanization occurring around the informal settlements in Indonesia. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach towards different issues relating to liveability, the work engenders a multidimensional perspective integrating social practice with aspects of infrastructure, institution, and regulation. Presenting an original contribution to the study of middle-lower income urban neighborhoods in Indonesian cities especially, and cities in the Global South generally, this book captures key materials for discussing the main challenges and potential in the urban life and development of marginalised neighborhoods. Cutting across the fields of science and technology, engineering, medicine, public health, nutritional studies, humanities, social sciences and cultural studies, this interdisciplinary compilation offers important and unique views on urban life and urban policy. It is of interest to readers in urban studies and policy, development studies, health and well-being, particularly in developing geographies.

Mollah, Md. Awal Hossain, Service Delivery and the Pulse of Citizen Satisfaction in Urban Governance of Bangladesh. 194 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Mcmillan, UK) <753-1360>
ISBN 978-981-9675-63-0 hard ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book offers a comparative analysis of municipal service delivery in four major Bangladeshi cities: Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, and Rajshahi. Using the SERVQUAL model, it evaluates service quality through five dimensions-Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Empathy-providing a detailed understanding of citizen satisfaction in varied urban settings. The book's strength lies in its comparative framework, which examines the distinct challenges and governance structures of each city. This analysis identifies common issues while uncovering unique dynamics, enabling a thorough exploration of service delivery systems. It highlights effective practices and areas for improvement, fostering a balanced view of urban governance. Key municipal services such as street lighting, waste management, water supply, sewerage systems, and birth registration are assessed in detail. By focusing on practical reforms and innovations, the book bridges academic research with real-world application, offering actionable insights for policymakers, urban planners, and practitioners. With its emphasis on practical solutions and comparative insights, this book is an essential resource for those involved in urban development. It provides valuable lessons for enhancing service quality and citizen satisfaction, contributing to more effective governance in developing countries.

Randolph, Gregory F., Urbanization from Within: A Theory of Urban Transition from Twenty-First Century India. (Modern South Asia) 288 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <753-1365>
ISBN 978-0-19-776907-2 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-776908-9 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Bibri, Simon Elias, Generative AI and Generative AI of Things for Sustainable Smart Cities: Pioneering Environmental Innovations, Climate Solutions, and Infrastructural Transformations. 402 pp. 2025:12 (CRC Pr., US) <753-1505>
ISBN 978-1-041-13984-3 hard ¥54,967.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00
ISBN 978-1-041-13982-9 paper ¥14,461.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

This pioneering book invites readers on a compelling journey into Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its groundbreaking convergence with AI of Things (AIoT), introducing GAIoT as a transformative frontier in urban computing and intelligence. GAIoT signals a paradigm shift towards more intelligent, self-learning, self-evolving, and context-aware systems-capable of generating adaptive, forward-looking solutions to the complex infrastructural and environmental challenges confronting sustainable smart cities.With its combination of theoretical depth, applied innovation, and interdisciplinary scope, the book offers a comprehensive examination of deep generative models-namely GANs, VAEs, Diffusion Models, Transformers, and hybrid architectures-and their applications in environmental sustainability, climate resilience, infrastructure optimization, dynamic decision-making, and data-driven urban management and planning. From synthetic data generation, data augmentation, and data imputation to predictive modeling and scenario simulation, GAIoT is driving the next wave of climate-responsive, environmentally conscious smart city innovation.What sets this book apart is its first-of-its-kind focus on GAIoT as a pioneering force in shaping the future of sustainable urban development. It delivers actionable insights, conceptual and operational frameworks, case studies, and policy guidance-equipping diverse stakeholders with the tools to build cities that not only respond to change but also anticipate and shape it. Targeting a broad and cross-disciplinary audience, the book shares state-of-the-art research, presents innovative solutions, and forecasts future trends in urban transformation. As both a seminal reference and a practical resource for researchers, technologists, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers, it provides essential guidance for those engaged in advancing the next frontier in urban computing and intelligence.

Fu, Ivan Chin Shing / Lau, Sunnie Sing Yeung et al. (eds.), Low Carbon-oriented Design: Principles and Practices. (Sustainable Urban Design) 308 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1516>
ISBN 978-981-9667-38-3 hard ¥19,796.- (税込) EUR 79.99

This book presents an innovative approach to sustainable urban design through the lens of low carbon-oriented design. It offers a comprehensive framework integrating four key paradigms: Design with Nature, Design with Human, Design with Clean Energy, and Design with Climate. By synthesizing ecological principles, human-centric approaches, renewable energy solutions, and climate-responsive strategies, the book provides practical manual for creating energy-efficient, environmentally harmonious buildings and cities. The book stands out for its holistic perspective, bridging theoretical concepts with real-world applications through diverse case studies, particularly from rapidly developing Asian contexts. It addresses pressing challenges of climate change, resource depletion, and urban livability by offering cutting-edge strategies for reducing carbon footprints in the built environment.

Wang, Jun, Carbon Neutral City. 266 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-1552>
ISBN 978-981-9674-53-4 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book introduces the ecological, low-carbon, and sustainable concept of ideal cities from different views. With beliefs and practices of scholars in the past in pursuit of ideal cities, it is written with historical events in the development of low-carbon cities. In this way, activities about carbon peaking and carbon neutrality happening worldwide at present can be shown, and efforts variety countries have paid off can be exhibited. Besides, as for the centralized and the distributed space structure in urban evolution, the book discusses their trends and comes up with an ideal model, the distributed city, to realize carbon neutrality based on the distributed structure. Therefore, with a practical example in planning, the feasibility of the distributed city is analyzed in several fields, including space, energy, traffic, water, waste disposal, etc. The book can be used as materials for professionals in city planning and construction, low-carbon development and other fields, as well as a way for ordinary people to learn about the complex city.

Bahmanteymouri, Elham / Hillier, Jean et al. (eds.), Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices. 304 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <753-1578>
ISBN 978-1-032-74346-2 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-74153-6 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder. Through the lens of fantasy-particularly as theorised in Lacanian psychoanalysis-contributors interrogate how planners' desires, decisions, and subjectivities are shaped by ideological narratives that sustain dominant neoliberal structures. The book includes Michael Gunder's influential work on ideological fantasy, alongside eleven original chapters that collectively deconstruct, traverse, and reimagine ideological constructs in planning.The volume is organised into three thematic sections. The first critically deconstructs capitalist ideological fantasies embedded in planning education, urban imaginaries, participatory governance, and neoliberal policy discourses. The second explores how fantasies operate within environmental governance, housing activism (such as YIMBYism), flat ontologies, and community strategies, while also identifying possibilities for alternative discourses. The final section presents counter-hegemonic perspectives from non-Western contexts, including critiques of China's Territorial Spatial Planning and Iranian philosophical traditions of truth-telling as ethical governance.Contributors include established and emerging scholars from diverse global contexts, offering interdisciplinary insights for researchers and practitioners in planning, geography, sociology, philosophy, and political studies. This collection stands as both a scholarly tribute to Gunder's intellectual legacy and a call for critical, transformative planning futures.

Blumberg, Mark / Hall, Matthew (eds.), Architecture and Progress: Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment. 234 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1580>
ISBN 978-1-032-76755-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76753-6 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy.For shapers of the world, finding 'the solution' is often a mark of progress that becomes embedded in culture, society, and history. Progress is ever-present. Through the exploration of diverse positions in history, theory and practise, this book explores the potential utility of the progressively problematic rather than the natural tendency towards the progressively solved. Chapters draw on historic spaces, technological advancement, incorporation of the natural world, alterative production and the consideration of human experience both sensory and psychological. Challenging the positive connotation of 'progress', the writings also explore reversing the notion of obstacle from disruptive anti-tool to obstacle of utilitarian method, a useful tool, pressing approach, and overarching value system.This will be interesting reading for upper-level students and scholars of Architecture, Urban Design, Philosophy, and Sociology.

Capanema-Alvares, Lucia / Orrico-Filho, Romulo (eds.), Extended Mobility for the City as a Common: Furthering the Right to the City in Global Perspective. (Rights to the City) 240 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <753-1582>
ISBN 978-1-032-99052-1 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-97875-8 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Extended Mobility for the City as a Common offers a novel framework for understanding how urban inhabitants access and experience cities. It invites readers to critically examine the ways in which stigmatization and socioeconomic barriers combine to restrict access to urban opportunities for marginalized communities. Arguing that the right to the city is inseparable from the right to mobility, this book calls for a radical shift toward a welcoming and solidary city, both in transportation systems and in the inhabitants' destinations.The book is structured into three parts. Part One introduces the concept of "Extended Mobility," a multidimensional framework encompassing motility, accessibility, and porosity that provides a new lens to interrogate the multifaceted nature of mobility as a social phenomenon. Part Two applies this framework through a grounded ethnographic comparison of Favela da Mare in Rio de Janeiro and the San Siro housing project in Milan. These rich and detailed studies develop robust methodological tools and theoretical insights that uncover the complex mobility experiences of peripheral urban inhabitants. In the final section, leading experts in transportation and urban planning engage Extended Mobility across different global settings to critique existing policies and explore pathways toward mobility justice and a city of rights for all.By integrating structural and experiential perspectives on urban mobility, this book is an essential resource for social science researchers and urban and transportation planning scholars as well as policymakers, practitioners, and activists seeking to foster more inclusive cities and empower communities to access the full possibilities of a common urban life.Chapters 1, 4, 7, and the Introduction of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)4.0 International license.

Carrion Mena, Fernando / Rodriguez Alvarez, S. (eds.), From the City as a Project to the City Project. Volume I: History. (The Urban Book Series) 490 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <753-1583>
ISBN 978-3-031-94225-9 hard ¥44,546.- (税込) EUR 179.99

The city has historically been conceived as a project, with a sense of duty to be: it is the prefiguration of a reality that emerges from the negation of the pre-existing city. The city anticipates a desired future from an ideal perspective that tends to overcome the existing structural or particular challenges of the present. It can be argued that this proposition represents the historical trajectory of urban thought on a planetary scale. Therefore, the prospective dimension of the city constituted a central dynamic in urban theory throughout history, leading to the emergence of planning as a key approach.The history of the city as a project is the core of the first volume in this two-part contribution. It presents an overview of diverse city projects that have been pursued throughout history, providing a framework for exploring new perspectives of urban development. The cities profiled and analyzed here reflect a living catalog of initiatives that can inform promising directions. More than a compilation, this volume compares and critically assesses these historical projects to provide a grounding for the contemporary advances presented in the second volume.

Carrion Mena, Fernando / Silva Arias, Emilia (eds.), From the City as a Project to the City Project. Volume II: The 21st Century. (The Urban Book Series) 490 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1584>
ISBN 978-3-031-94234-1 hard ¥44,546.- (税込) EUR 179.99

The city is a forward-looking project rooted in existing challenges and dynamics. This tension has been especially apparent in the 21st century, when city projects have been contending with great changes in different areas of society: globalization, technology (third and fourth industrial revolutions), economy (neoliberalism), state reform, among others. For this reason, city projects must increasingly employ a plural vision. This second volume on the topic of the city as a project draws on a framework informed by historical examples presented in volume one to provide an overview of major theoretical and methodological advances in project formulation in the 21st century. Presenting classifications and analysis of contemporary cities and approaches, the contributions in this book illustrate diverse visions of the city. These perspectives collectively contribute to an understanding of the conditions that generate new inequalities and integrations in ongoing and imminent city projects-and thus evaluate the cities we seek to build.

De Marco, Michaela, Counteracting the Neoliberal City: Towards the Integral and Recognitive Regeneration of Public Spaces. (The Urban Book Series) 239 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1587>
ISBN 978-3-031-93013-3 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a groundbreaking theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing urban phenomena and urban policies and a pioneering approach to urban regeneration projects. The text advocates for an "Integral and Recognitive Urban Regeneration" of public spaces in cities to confront current neoliberal urban policies, which have been ineffective in achieving genuine overall "wellbeing" in contemporary urban environments. "Integral and Recognitive Urban Regeneration" is a macro-process composed of several micro-contextualized urban projects that account for the complexity of urban spaces. This process goes beyond merely enhancing the aesthetics and functionality of architectural spaces, rather presenting itself as an educational, community-oriented, cooperative, creative, socializing, eco-friendly, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary process that serves as a platform for regenerating compromised ecosystems; promoting the cognitive, psychological, emotional, social, and political empowerment of resident communities; and addressing local and global forms of social and ecological injustice. As such, this book is an essential resource for students, researchers, academics, and experienced planners alike.

Delgado, Melvin, The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence: Helping Profession Strategies for Engagement and Support. 216 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <753-1588>
ISBN 978-3-031-95681-2 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths. Gun violence in the United States is a salient national problem with virtually no day that goes by without it occurring. Where gun violence occurs, in turn, must be examined to facilitate understanding of how context influences the significance of the shooting. In the case of this book, the context is urban and death care sector (funeral homes, cemeteries, and houses of worship). Understanding how these settings shape public reactions help inform us as to how best to address this social and public health problem in the nation's urban centers and its consequences for communities. The book addresses five interrelated goals that weave together a variety of themes to produce a vision and guidance needed for a new practice arena: (1) ground readers in the latest statistical information on urban gun violence in this country; (2) review existing approaches to preventing and intervening in community gun violence with a focus on cities; (3) uplift the importance of the death care industry in meeting the needs of families and friends of gun victims. Attention is also paid to how funeral homes have expanded their vision of services to aid their community; (4) provide readers with details and insights into how to develop collaborative projects with systems of care through a series of case illustrations; and (5) put forth community practice, education, and research recommendations for how best to prepare future practitioners wishing to work with the death care sector on other related community issues to better serve urban communities. The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence is a must-read for community psychologists, social workers, public health practitioners, community educators, sociologists, community medical providers, criminologists, and urban planners, as well as academics and students in these fields. Policy makers will also find the book of interest.

Douet, James, The Meaningful City: Reading Barcelona's Urban Landscape. 174 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-1590>
ISBN 978-981-9667-54-3 hard ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes. As the title suggests, urban areas are full of messages and communications, with signs and symbols incorporated into buildings, structures and plans. Taking the rich architectural and urbanistic chronicle of Barcelona as a model, the author shows how different social groups, consciously and unconsciously, have written their values and interests on to the city. The narrative opens with the forced reshaping by military engineers of the former capital of Catalunya after 1714, and extends up to an analysis of the many competing actors and agencies which attempt to impose their perspectives on the contemporary city. It scrutinizes how deep cultural and social changes such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution, de-industrialisation and globalisation can be read in the urban environment, as well as more intentional effects of major urban development projects including the Ciutadella fortress, the Rambles, the universal exhibitions of 1888 and 1929, the Sagrada Familia, the Barcelona Model of urban renewal, the 22@ innovation district and the superil?les sustainability plans. Informed by the approach of critical urban studies, the narrative is written in a clear style to engage readers with many different interests, students, urbanists and design professionals as well as residents and visitors to the city. Drawing on research from varied academic fields published in English, Catalan and Spanish, it is illustrated with colour photographs of many of the buildings and sites that have made Barcelona a global resource for understanding contemporary cities.

Drozda, Lukasz, The Non-Post-Socialist City: Urban Policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe. (Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change) 180 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1591>
ISBN 978-1-041-12258-6 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Non-Post-Socialist City examines contemporary urban policies through case studies of six cities in four states across the CEE/FSU region. This book adopts a rarely used approach in the study of so-called post-socialist cities-combining several years of in-depth empirical research with a broad comparative frame. Building on this foundation, it analyzes urban policymaking processes in Leipzig (Germany); Warsaw and Krakow (Poland); Tallinn (Estonia); and Kyiv and Lviv (Ukraine). The monograph interprets these dynamics through the author's concept of diluted post-socialism, which highlights not only trajectories rooted in the Soviet-dominated era but also a range of pre- or non-socialist legacies that interact with-and often complicate-the few decades of now-defunct state-socialist rule. Particular attention is given to four policy fields: mobility, green infrastructure, housing, and spatial planning. While these domains pose broadly similar dimensions across the six cities, their organization reveals a highly diverse urban landscape that is too often flattened under the "post-socialist" label. The book is intended for scholars, analysts, students, and anyone interested in urbanization processes in the former Eastern Bloc, as well as in the impact of the global populist turn on urban policymaking within this region and in a broader urban context.

El Mokhi, Chakib / Hachimi, Hanaa / Nayyar, Anand (eds.), The Future of Urban Living: Smart Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure Technologies: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Sustainability Engineering and Technology (ICASET'25). (Sustainable Civil Infrastructures) 380 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <753-1592>
ISBN 978-3-031-98333-7 paper ¥49,496.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment. It is exploring advanced developments in smart cities infrastructure and sustainability engineering. In addition, this book delivers advanced methodologies, emerging and innovative technologies that shape sustainable urban technologies. Including the renewable energy systems of tomorrow, to low-impact manufacturing procedures today; every section provides insight and real-world implementation. The book bridges the gap between theory and practice, making it an essential tool to turn sustainability challenges into opportunities. Salient characteristics comprise: 1. Global perspective: Allows for flexibility in solutions given a multitude of successful examples around the world from different cultural and geographic locations. 2. Multidisciplinary approach: Integrating perspectives from engineering, environmental science, economics and policy studies for holistic problem solving. 3. Financial sustainability: Innovative business models to make sustainable solutions good for the environment and even better economically. This provoking literature questions conventional wisdom and promotes adventurous visions of sustainability. By highlighting emerging trends in cloud computing, cybersecurity, and big data for urban development, readers are prepared to lead the next paradigm shift in sustainable innovation

都市設計の基礎
Heath, Tim / Wiedmann, Florian, Urban Design: The Basics. (The Basics) 246 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1594>
ISBN 978-1-032-16164-8 hard ¥34,716.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-032-16975-0 paper ¥5,782.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

Urban Design: The Basics provides a brief but compelling overview and introduction to the theory and practice of the multi-disciplinary field of urban design. It is an 'easy-to-understand' and 'jargon-free' introduction to the fundamental principles of urban design. By introducing the essentials of urban design, the book is an important starting point for future study of the discipline. Topics include placemaking, sustainable urbanism, the evolution of cities and townscapes, and urban design and governance. Across seven chapters, the book is centred on a holistic understanding of sustainability and the special role of urban design in achieving a high quality of urban life, economic diversification, and less energy consumption. It provides a clear overview of the evolution of urban design, drawing on fundamental principles and critical challenges, and negotiates the complexities and nuances of the discipline. Given the contemporary international importance of urban design, the book uses examples from around the globe to explain its role and impact in different contexts. It also features detailed further reading lists for those wishing to expand their knowledge and understanding further.Urban Design: The Basics will be of keen interest to those fascinated with cities and urban design, students, and practitioners who are looking to supplement their knowledge of key urban design principles.

Kousoulas, Stavros, Athens: Notes on Urban Immanence. (Built Environment City Studies) 146 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <753-1595>
ISBN 978-1-041-09576-7 hard ¥15,329.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Focusing on the city of Athens, this book examines architecture as something that produces culture and ideology - rather than the opposite. Therefore, this book aims to complement architectural and urban theories that are based only on historical overviews or typological assumptions; to do so, it boldly opens architectural discourse to philosophy, affect theory, and social and cognitive sciences.By examining Athens after its denomination as Greek capital in 1834, the moments, actors, and transformations that assist the individuation of the Athenian urban ecologies are problematised. Opting for theoretical speculations, the readers will witness architecture as a collective equipment that produces modes of life that can either enhance or diminish our collective potentials. As such, the ambition of this book is to provide the theoretical and methodological groundings for thorough extrapolations on how new collectivities can be produced.Readers of this book will be exposed to a transdisciplinary approach that identifies and addresses shared problems and concerns regarding the production of contemporary urban environments. This book will also explore theoretical innovations that can inform and trigger new ways of speculative thinking and offers a non-reductionist account of the development of Athens from the perspective of multiple architectural technicities. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural theory, architectural history, and philosophy.

O Tuama, Seamus / Agbessi, Eric / Neylon, Tina (eds.), Global Perspectives on Learning Cities. (Lifelong Learning Book Series) 197 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1598>
ISBN 978-3-031-91109-5 hard ¥42,071.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book examines the social, political and economic rationales, which lead to the development of learning cities in diverse settings in Africa, Australia, Asia and Europe. Many of the contributors are practitioners who have played an active part in the development of their learning city. Some contributors are both practitioners and researchers on learning cities. Some are primarily researchers who are focused on understanding learning cities, gauging the benefits and potential of learning cities and formulating new theories and approaches. The book also includes interviews with and contributions from key founding figures in the learning cities movement and in the development of UNESCO's Global Network of Learning Cities. The book explores diverse initiatives that are shaping the lives of people in cities today and into the future, fostering inclusivity, sustainability, and resilience. Each chapter offers a unique perspective on the transformative power of lifelong learning and collective commitment. Contributors share their insights, from grassroots to high level policy discussions, shedding light on the challenges and triumphs encountered along the way. This is the first major book looking at learning cities across the globe from both theoretical and practical perspectives. What sets it apart is the diversity in the material offered and the geographical and cultural spread of contexts. Cities are becoming ever more important to the future of humanity, learning cities are a vast laboratory of new and innovative ways in which people can learn together to create more fulfilling lives, better opportunities and put into practice on a daily basis the four principles outlined in the Delors Report (1996): Learning to know, Learning to do, Learning to live together, Learning to be. This book is a valuable resource for policymakers, educators, and community leaders striving to build more inclusive and sustainable societies. Whether embarking on the journey of developing a learning city or seeking inspiration from successful initiatives, readers will find practical insights and thought-provoking perspectives within these pages.

Reichle, Leon Rosa, Struggling to Belong: Class, Alienation and the Politics of Neoliberal Restructuring in Leipzig. 206 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-1600>
ISBN 978-3-031-96866-2 hard ¥37,121.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book offers an invaluable study on class composition in Leipzig, the city renowned for its pivotal role in the downfall of state socialism. It describes how class changes with the city's neoliberal restructuring, that has at its core the commodification and financialization of the spaces people inhabit. Through an ethnographic lens it illustrates how the city's transformation alienates its inhabitants and generates fragmentations between them, hindering their collective appropriation of their city, neighbourhoods and homes. Their different experiences of uneven development divide them despite similar concerns of rising rents. Interplaying with the local history of shrinkage, deindustrialization and austerity, the overall alienation feeds into collective lethargic depressive moods that permeates also institutions of the local administration, leaving them reluctant to intervene with the confident actions of investors and growth-oriented politicians. A few exceptionally stubborn small urban movements generate islands in this sea of decomposition, they do however not suffice to halt the fast pace of restructuring. The book contributes to political urban class analyses by combining the study of subjectivation in uneven development with an affect-sensitive scrutiny of tenant power and its limits vis-a-vis a financializing housing market and an austerity ridden local state.

Zhou, Conghui, Principles and Methods of Pocket Park Planning and Design. (Urban Sustainability) 309 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1603>
ISBN 978-981-9658-00-8 hard ¥42,071.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book focuses on the planning and design methods of pocket parks in the disciplines of urban planning and landscape architecture. It fills the gap in the current pocket park planning by innovatively exploring the service mechanism and planning methods of the pocket parks to alleviate the scarcity of outdoor recreational spaces in the high-density environments. This book integrates the results of previous research and our latest research results. Taking urban renewal as the planning scenario, the book systematically introduces the basic characteristics of mini-parks, planning principles and methods, and development promotion and assurance strategies. This book is used as a textbook for planning and design courses, as well as a professional reference book for urban planners and landscape architects. The authors have also made great efforts to use simple language and a large number of visual illustrations in the text. Through these approaches, the authors expected that the publication of this book would not only facilitate teaching and practical application, but also attract more interest and attention from ordinary people, and motivate them to actively participate in the planning, design, and management of mini-parks around them. Only when this goal is achieved, can the original value of mini-park development be finally realized.

Cody, Robert / Amoia, Angela, Alvar Aalto and Urban Design. 290 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-901>
ISBN 978-1-032-77939-3 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-77936-2 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aalto's regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in which he incorporated sustainability, resiliency, energy, and health, and examines how contemporary architects and planners can learn from this approach for the betterment of 21st century urban design and our future cities.The Alvar Aalto Atelier planned and promoted regional development that combined ecological features, considered density, and offered a framework for informality, including flexible, adaptable infrastructures, with physical plans integrating communities with nature. These plans were largely sub-urban and contained vital lessons on how to deal with sprawl, traffic, landscape, energy, labor, and industry. This book analyses letters, writings, and drawings not seen outside the Alvar Aalto foundation, to review alternative ways to examine sub-urban landscapes and urban typologies, through sustainability, ecology and use of digital technologies.This is an essential read for all those interested in the urban design work of Alvar Aalto. Written in an accessible way for those new to the work of Aalto, Architecture and Urban Design students of all levels will also find this a helpful guide on ecologically and socially responsible design.

日常生活と都市研究－21世紀へ向けてルフェーヴルとともに動く
Knierbein, Sabine, Everyday Life and Urban Studies: Moving With Lefebvre Towards the 21st Century. 304 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-905>
ISBN 978-1-032-82857-2 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-82856-5 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre's intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappreciated in urban studies. This book seeks to re-integrate Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life into studies of urbanization. Starting in the 1920s, the book realigns historical insights with contemporary urban phenomena to uncover patterns of capitalist urbanization. By showing the relevance of grasping the minutiae of everyday life to understanding cities, the urban and urbanization today; everyday life, space, and philosophy are brought back in tension. This work combines analytical-methodological exploration, pedagogic mission, and theoretical advances to carve out an everyday-theory-based approach to urban studies situated at the interface of the spatial arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. This book examines the transformative potential that lies hidden in everyday life thereby unravelling a way to nurture hope amid unsettled urban conditions.The book is essential for students, faculty, and researchers in the fields of urban studies, city planning, urban design, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, and political science.

Preston, Valerie / Shields, John / Bedard, Tara (eds.), Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance) 288 pp. 2025:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <752-907>
ISBN 978-0-228-02607-5 paper ¥8,437.- (税込) US$ 39.95

As Canada takes stock of its immigration programs, the factors that promote successful settlement have taken centre stage - for researchers, service providers, policymakers, and for the migrants themselves.Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience explores the conditions and supports that help international migrants thrive, not just survive. Focusing on resilience, chapters examine how immigration status and family dynamics shape migrants' agency and their responses to the inevitable challenges of building new lives. They draw attention to the issues created by societal constructs, while highlighting the resources from social institutions of all types: governmental, professional, educational, and faith-based. Emphasizing the experiences of structurally oppressed migrant groups, contributors note the varied ways that capitalism, as well as class, gender, and race, can contribute to inequality in settlement practices.Directed at a wide audience of community and government practitioners, policy experts, academics, and civil society activists, Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the ability of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.

Stevens, Quentin, How Good Are Parklets?: Reclaiming Street Space Through Temporary and Tactical Urbanism. 340 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <752-909>
ISBN 978-1-032-87615-3 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-87614-6 paper ¥10,411.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Parklets are innovative, dynamic public spaces that are installed onto on-street car-parking spots. These very small spaces have had a very large and lasting impact on city streets. How Good Are Parklets? is the first book to critically examine the parklet's purposes, formats, and impacts. It traces the parklet's history, from its invention in 2005 as an experiment that tactically reclaimed street space for broader public use, to its surge in popularity worldwide after the COVID-19 pandemic for outdoor dining, community gathering, and play. Drawing together archival research, expert interviews, typological analysis, mapping, field observation and design research, the book examines parklets' design, production, and implementation across varying urban contexts. By examining a wide range of contemporary practices, the book identifies parklets' potentials to reshape streets, meet diverse social needs and foster community engagement. The book situates parklets within the wider push towards deploying temporary and tactical strategies in the planning and management of cities. Its deep enquiry into one question about one type of spatial intervention contributes new insights into the complex interplays of actors, interests, processes, and materials that are currently transforming the urban landscape - one parking space at a time.

Romanowicz, Anna / Choudhury, Ahana (eds.), Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts. (Urban Futures) 150 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-794>
ISBN 978-1-041-04427-7 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-05920-2 paper ¥10,411.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural spectres of their inhabitants. It highlights the arenas in which various politics and strategies of emotional relations are represented, created, enacted, and regulated through the inhabitants' lives and lifestyles. Exploring this, the chapters in the volume bring together and analyse the myriad forms of intersections within and between urban centres in India and Indian diaspora, as well as 'classed' emotions. The authors embark on scholarly inquiries to highlight the complex and fluid dynamics through which urban spaces and the class of its inhabitants question, attribute, influence, and perpetuate the diverse emotional states and responses, and vice versa - they examine the ways in which emotive subjectivities, relations, experiences and practices, question and influence multiple urban formations, power dynamics and spaces. They reveal how emotional and urban landscapes are not only represented but are also affected by the social class of the denizens.Part of the Urban Futures series, the volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of urban studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, urban planning, urban policy, public policy and architecture. It will also be of interest to the professional architects, urban designers, social geographers and policymakers.

Dreksler, Beata / Makhzoumi, Jala (eds.), Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East. (Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design) 232 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-803>
ISBN 978-1-032-86654-3 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging profession in the region. The book also responds to the limitations of faulty translations of the English 'landscape' that, in turn, limit the professional potential in the region.The authors of the book see landscape as a way of beholding the world that is informed by place and culture. And because landscape is context specific, a landscape framing contextualizes a problem, be it community development, tourism, or nature conservation, to foster place and culture responsive perspectives. The nine chapters are grouped under four broad themes that reflect the multifaceted, 'expansive' framing that embraces landscape, natural and cultural heritage, people and livelihoods and landscape and human rights.The authors recognize that a landscape framing is not the exclusive domain of landscape architecture, but can be applied by architects, planners and environmentalists. The ideas advanced and issues discussed will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in landscape architecture, architecture, planners and urban designers, as well as social and environmental scientists.

Cabrera, Juan E. / Blanc, Francesca / Cotella, G. (eds.), Spatial Governance and Planning in Latin America: A Comparative Account. 260 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-833>
ISBN 978-1-032-48481-5 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-48482-2 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of spatial governance and planning systems (SGPSs) in Latin America, with analysis and comparison across 10 different countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The primary function of SPGSs is to empower the public sector to exert control over spatial development. Originally understood mainly through a legal paradigm, it is now acknowledged that a range of informal institutions also play a role, responding to societal and community needs that the state or market are unable to address. This collection teases out these contrasting influences, highlighting the role of indigenous culture in certain contexts, and the increase of participatory processes in others. The book features not only individual country case studies, but also chapters discussing the broader themes, as well as how the Latin American context compares to the European one. A timely contribution to this evolving topic, the book will appeal students and scholars in the fields of planning, urban and regional studies, public policy, and human geography.

Genova, Neda, Politics of Surfaces: Transformations of Public Space in Post-Communist Sofia. (Spatial Politics) 240 pp. 2025:8 (Goldsmiths, UK) <752-667>
ISBN 978-1-915983-34-3 hard ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Pajvancic-Cizelj, Ana, Spaces of Europeanisation in the Balkans: Cities, Networks and Urban Epistemic Communities. (Southeast European Studies) 152 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <752-673>
ISBN 978-1-032-69643-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans, by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities. Exploring the participation of urban actors in inter-urban networks, it employs a new mixed-method framework to track the circulation of European urban knowledge and policies, and their impact in the Balkans. The author explores discourses, practices, and their interpretation, to show how participation in European urban networks continuously reshapes Balkan Cities urban trajectories with contradictory and variegated consequences. Analysis of 18 European inter-urban networks along with expert interviews with their members, helps readers visualize the relationships between Balkans cities and gives insight into their perceptions. This book will be of interest to both scholars of urban studies and Southeast European Studies scholars, as well as anyone interested in the Europeanization of the Balkans and its cities.

Corburn, Jason / Boggan, DeVone, Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love. 264 pp. 2025:10 (MIT Pr., US) <752-481>
ISBN 978-0-262-55221-9 paper ¥8,448.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Cheshmehzangi, Ali, Urban Innovation and Sustainability: ICT-based Interventions in Hainan, China. (Urban Sustainability) 174 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <751-808>
ISBN 978-981-9663-69-9 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is a collection of context-specific ICT-based interventions to achieve sustainability from various perspectives or dimensions. The book is based on case study examples in the strategic context of Hainan, South China. Five ICT-based pilot studies were conducted, surveyed, and analysed in 2021 and 2022. The studies explore impacts on four main sustainability dimensions of environmental, social, economic, and institutional. Several ICT-based interventions are suggested to enhance environmental protection, promote health and support in elderly communities, augment social media for place promotion, create online opportunities for local markets, and help boost local tourism industries. Urban Innovation and Sustainability is an attempt to highlight the positive side of ICT-based interventions in cities and communities. We also need to note the negative side of ICTs, which are partly covered in the case study examples. However, this book focuses on case study pilot examples to promote the nexus between innovation and sustainability. It is essential to explore opportunities that could later be scaled up, transform practices, and help develop context-specific policies. In essence, paradigm shifts, infrastructural development, and human-centric development are necessary. This book's findings interest scholars/researchers, practitioners, and authorities in various disciplines of urbanism, urban/human geography, urban studies, planning, innovation, and sustainability.

Cermeno, Helena, Access to the City: Governing Housing, Services, and Urban In/Exclusion in Amritsar and Lahore. (Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft) 340 pp. 2025:7 (Springer VS, GW) <751-843>
ISBN 978-3-658-48227-5 paper ¥24,746.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This research focuses on Punjab, across the India-Pakistan border, specifically on the cities of Amritsar and Lahore. Their proximity, shared colonial past, socio-cultural ties, and entangled urban heritage offer a unique setting for comparative research on postcolonial urban governance and transformation. The book examines how governance practices shape urban dwellers' access to housing and services in specific neighbourhoods and contribute to the (re)production of socio-spatial in/exclusion. Rather than relying on a property rights lens, it adopts and expands Access Theory, conceptualising access as the ability to derive benefits from material, institutional, and symbolic resources. This lens foregrounds governance mechanisms and power relations that enable, control, and maintain access over time. Case studies in Amritsar and Lahore engage with theoretical mergers-such as access assemblages, evolutionary governance, and city\scapes-to explore neglected dimensions of urban processes, including human/non-human interfaces and socio-material infrastructures. By unraveling contestations over access, the research traces evolving governance arrangements and dependencies. While grounded in these two cities, the findings contribute to broader debates on postcolonial and South(east)ern urbanism, especially in border regions.

Dougherty, James / Bohl, Charles C., The Art of the New Urbanism. Volume 1: (1980 - 2010). 304 pp. 2025:6 (Wiley, US) <751-944>
ISBN 978-1-394-35420-7 hard ¥12,661.- (税込) US$ 59.95 *

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual communication that enable professionals, elected officials and citizens from all walks of life to engage in designing their neighborhoods and communities. While created as means to an end, these visualizations are often compelling artworks in their own right. The Art of the New Urbanism features the first-ever, comprehensive collection of New Urbanist artworks, with more than 200 selected works produced by more than 100 practitioners and firms. The collected works include plans, renderings of buildings, streetscapes and gathering places, studies of precedents, and photographs of built projects. This book includes seminal material from the early history of the movement that has inspired generations of community building professionals, as well as a wide variety of hand-drawn and digital works that represent methods used today. Through their commentaries on each work, designers share the place making principles visualized through their plans and renderings and how their work responded to the public process. The Art of the New Urbanism contributors include: Joseph Altuna???Andres Duany?????Dana P. Little???Peter Richards ARCAS Paris???Edward Erfurt?????Jeffrey Loman???Robin Riley Jonathan Arnold??Manuel Fernandez-Noval?Tom Low????Chris Ritter Eusebio Azcue???Steven Fett??????Michael McCann??Joshua J. Rivera Charles Barrett???Jennifer Garcia???Scott Merrill????Abel Rodriguez Marcos Bastian???Kenneth Garcia???John Miki????David Rodriguez Drew Bowman???Mark Garzon????Elizabeth Moule???Clay Rokicki Peter Calthorpe???Andrew Georgiadis??Steve Mouzon???SCENESIS PICTURES Brian Canin????Ernesto Gloria????John Moynahan???David M. Schwarz David Carrico????Bonnie Gonzalez???Juan Mullerat???Robert Scott Christopher Carrigan? Jennifer Griffin???Peter Musty???Jennifer Settle Juan A. Caruncho???John Griffin????Thai Nguyen???Shailendra Singh Eduardo Castillo???Arti Harchekar????Anne Marie Noll???Joe Skibba Marice Chael???Peter Harmatuck???Colleen O'Keeffe???Daniel Solomon Dede Christopher???Seth Harry????Lew Oliver?????Sandy Sorlien Anthony Cissell???Xiaojian He????Dan Osborne????Christian Sottile Craig Clements???Brian Hendrickson???Paul Ostergaard??Kristen Sparenborg Andrew Cogar???Steve Hinds????Eric Osth??????Lucien Steil David Colgan???Troy Homenchuk???Daniel Parolek???Robert A.M. Stern Daniel W. Cook???C.J. Howard????Karen Parolek???Dhiru A. Thadani Chad Cooper???Randall Imai????Stefan Pellegrini???John Torti Jaime Correa???Christopher Janson??Christopher M. Pizzi??Erick Valle Cindy Cox???Joseph Kabriel????Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk??Estela Valle David R. Csont???Peter Katz????Chris Podstawski???David VanGroningen dbox??????Brian Kelly????Stefanos Polyzoides???Max Von Trott Lohren Ray Deeg?Kevin Klinkenberg???Evan Posley???James Wassell Bill Dennis????Joseph Kohl???Asa Prentice????Anthony Way Harry Dodson???Leon Krier???Russell Preston???Vladislav Yeliseyev James Dougherty?Matthew Lambert??Steve Price????JJ Zanetta Victor Dover???Jacob Lindsey??Ian Rasmussen????Art Zendarski

Morgan Parmett, Helen, Stadium City: Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States. (Studies in Sports Media) 304 pp. 2025:9 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <751-945>
ISBN 978-0-252-04673-5 hard ¥26,400.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08883-4 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Understanding the recent history and multifaceted impact of sports stadiums A new sports stadium has an outsized impact on a city's landscape and image of itself. Each stadium also plays a central role in media institutions, technologies, and culture as a catalyst for urban change and flashy neighborhood anchor, cornerstone of regional identity and purveyor of multimedia experiences. Helen Morgan Parmett analyzes sports stadiums in Atlanta, Seattle, and Minneapolis to demonstrate the role that media institutions, technologies, and culture play in sports and examine their impact on the urban landscape. These interconnected factors impact struggles over city space, identity, and urban governing. As Morgan Parmett shows, stadiums exist as more than just buildings and sporting places. They are central nodes in the city that connect, disconnect, and distribute resources, people, information, and, ultimately, power. Morgan Parmett demonstrates how the "sportification" of place is influenced by the specific histories, geography, and sporting cultures of a city while explaining their relationship to broader forces at work in media, sport, and urbanism. Original and incisive, Stadium City offers a beyond-the-playing-field analysis of sports stadiums and their impact on our cities and our lives.

Swenson, Sara Ann, Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam. (AAR Academy) 256 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <751-204>
ISBN 978-0-19-781186-3 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Buddhists in Vietnam are meeting humanitarian needs by popularizing charity. Vietnam's rapid urbanization has intensified social service demands while straining public infrastructure. In response, charity volunteers are building roads, subsidizing medicine, and giving away food. Near Light We Shine draws on two years of ethnographic research conducted in Ho Chi Minh City to analyse why and how people join these grassroots movements. Volunteers adapt practices from Vietnam's dominant religion--Buddhism--to attract donors and advocate for different programming styles. However, there can also be clashes over the ultimate purpose of philanthropy. Volunteers approach both Buddhism and altruism in different ways depending on their personal values and demographic communities. These communities include low-income day laborers, elderly women, Buddhist nuns, urban migrants, college students, and queer men. Volunteers promote altruism by citing the proverb, "What is near ink, darkens; what is near light, shines." They use this axiom to distinguish themselves as good people "with heart" [co tam], whose charities are more caring and ethical than other organizations. Disputes over who practices true charity are rooted in different phenomenological and ontological experiences of how altruism influences the world. Volunteers promote distinct Buddhist cosmologies that are traditional, pro-socialist, sceptical, queer, modern, scientific, magical, and often at odds with one another. Altogether, people draw on Buddhism as an adaptable resource to build moral communities and transform the world. Near Light We Shine provides unprecedented insights into how Buddhism functions as a highly adaptable tool for people to build moral communities in Southeast Asia.

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 ¥41,948.- (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 ¥15,329.- (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, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of people-led development emphasising spatial practices of the emerging middle/lower-middle and small entrepreneurial classes.In this book, the concept practice is integrated with Lefebvre's framework of the production of differential space to conceptualise the diverse and seemingly ad-hoc space-making activities of urban residents, situating these 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, this book highlights the tensions between the state visions of modernised urbanisation and the 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 the entrepreneurialism of the subaltern and the role of ordinary people in urban development, this 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 ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organise 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 ¥26,037.- (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 ¥36,162.- (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 ¥41,948.- (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 ¥20,908.- (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 ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-07545-7 paper ¥14,461.- (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 ¥41,948.- (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.