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

Country Profiles on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management: Republic of San Marino. 58 pp. 2024:10 (UN, US) <746-961>
ISBN 978-92-1-300063-2 paper ¥4,290.- (税込) US$ 20.00

The Country Profile of the Republic of San Marino was prepared at the request of the Government of the Republic of San Marino. The study commenced with an evaluation of the country against the UNECE Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities, developed jointly with ITU. The study provides action-oriented recommendations which aim to help the country realize its vision of further improving the quality of life of its inhabitants.

Amiri, Sohaela, City Diplomacy as Noncoercive Statecraft: Gaining Power and Influence through Attraction. 100 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <746-971>
ISBN 978-1-032-86542-3 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book presents a rigorously designed framework for city diplomacy as a tool to enhance a nation's international appeal, attraction, and influence. This book illustrates how attraction-based influence is generated and why city diplomacy enhances national security and prosperity through international exchanges, collaboration, and dialogue.It provides a structured approach to guide policies, strategies, research, and analysis for city diplomacy and the broader field of international affairs.

Yigitcanlar, Tan, Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Innovation Principles, Priorities, Policies. 328 pp. 2025:8 (CRC Pr., US) <746-311>
ISBN 978-1-032-99700-1 hard ¥18,300.- (税込) GB￡ 64.99
ISBN 978-1-032-99699-8 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation. This essential resource offers deep insights into the societal, policy, and urban impacts of autonomous vehicles, drawing on an extensive body of research. Beginning with a review of smart urban mobility innovations, the book explores technological advancements such as connected vehicles, mobility-as-a-service platforms, and shared autonomous systems, evaluating their successes and challenges.The book traces the evolution of autonomous vehicle research over the past two decades, identifying key trends, methodologies, and future research directions, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to address complex challenges. Subsequent chapters critically assess the technical capabilities, societal impacts, and policy frameworks necessary for the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles, with a focus on implications for land use, infrastructure, and environmental planning. Public acceptance is a recurring theme, with an in-depth analysis of socio-demographic, psychological, and contextual factors influencing attitudes towards autonomous mobility. The book also examines the role of shared autonomous systems in addressing urban challenges such as congestion and equity, highlighting their potential to create more sustainable urban transportation networks. Concluding with a discussion on the disruptive impacts of autonomous vehicles on urban form and land use, the authors provide a balanced perspective on the opportunities and risks of mobility-as-a-service.This key reference book equips academics, policymakers, urban planners, and industry professionals with the knowledge to navigate the complex interplay of technology, policy, and societal impact, advancing the vision of smarter and more sustainable cities.This volume, alongside its companion, Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Adoption Parameters, Perceptions, Perspectives, offers a holistic view of Autonomous Urban Mobility.Together, these books provide a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous urban mobility, the principles guiding its innovation, the wide-ranging impacts of its adoption on society, policy, and urban environments and the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in the future of urban transportation.

Yigitcanlar, Tan, Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Adoption Parameters, Perceptions, Perspectives. 188 pp. 2025:8 (CRC Pr., US) <746-312>
ISBN 978-1-032-99724-7 hard ¥18,300.- (税込) GB￡ 64.99
ISBN 978-1-032-99721-6 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book delves into the complex landscape of autonomous urban mobility, analysing the factors that influence public adoption, stakeholder perspectives, and societal perceptions in this rapidly evolving field. Aimed at scholars, policymakers, urban planners, and industry professionals, the book offers a thorough exploration of the key elements driving the integration of autonomous vehicles in urban settings. Drawing on empirical evidence from diverse case studies, it first investigates public awareness, emphasising the roles of knowledge, exposure, and media in shaping perceptions of autonomous vehicles, and underscores the critical need for targeted awareness campaigns. Subsequent chapters examine pre-trial attitudes towards autonomous shuttles, demonstrating how initial experiences significantly impact adoption willingness, and advocate for pilot programs to cultivate informed, positive perceptions.The book also explores the potential of smart mobility solutions to bridge first/last mile gaps, presenting data on how autonomous vehicles can improve urban transport efficiency and accessibility. By analysing socio-demographic predictors, it highlights varying perceptions of the benefits and challenges of autonomous demand-responsive transit, underscoring the importance of tailored strategies for diverse urban populations. Stakeholder perspectives, gathered through interviews and case studies, offer practical recommendations for overcoming technological, regulatory, and societal hurdles. Comparative insights from international case studies broaden the understanding of local factors influencing autonomous vehicle acceptance, while advanced modelling techniques identify the key drivers of driverless car adoption. Finally, the book explores the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in developing countries, offering visionary insights into their capacity to reshape urban landscapes.With its data-rich content and forward-thinking analysis, this book is an indispensable guide to the future of urban transportation and the critical role of autonomous mobility.This volume, alongside its companion, Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Innovation Principles, Priorities, Policies, offers a holistic view of Autonomous Urban Mobility. Together, these books provide a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous urban mobility, the principles guiding its innovation, the wide-ranging impacts of its adoption on society, policy, and urban environments and the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in the future of urban transportation.

持続可能な都市交通ハンドブック
Budd, Lucy / Ison, Stephen / Attard, Maria (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Urban Transport. (Routledge International Handbooks) 356 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-302>
ISBN 978-1-032-54568-4 hard ¥64,768.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Urban Transport offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of sustainable transportation modes, impacts, technologies and policy. Over time, the economic benefits of transport have been overshadowed by negative externalities on the environment, public health and communities. Today, transport is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and with the growth in the number and size of cities, urban transport will be a critical infrastructure to develop sustainably.Sustainable urban transport poses a key topic of debate for politicians, the public and transport providers worldwide, as legacy vehicle technologies, power sources, infrastructure and habitual human travel behaviours render the decarbonisation of local and global transport systems inherently challenging. Featuring contributions from world-leading, international scholars, the chapters examine concepts, issues and ideas across five topic areas that reflect the increasingly diverse nature of current research and thinking in sustainable urban transport: key features, impacts of transport in cities, urban transport modes, energy and innovative technologies, policy issues and instruments. Each chapter provides an overview of current knowledge, identifies issues, discusses the relevant debates in sustainable urban transport and seeks to put forward a future research agenda in the field. This handbook offers a single repository on the current state of knowledge, written from a practical perspective, utilising theory that is applied and developed using real-world examples.The handbook is an essential reference for researchers, academics and students working in all areas of sustainable transportation, from policy and planning to technology, in addition to industry practitioners looking to develop their professional knowledge.

D.シャウプと駐車場改革を記念した論文集
Hess, Daniel Baldwin (ed.), The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms. 264 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-306>
ISBN 978-1-032-73698-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-73392-0 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

In The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms, edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, forty city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals analyze three major parking reforms proposed by Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA. First, remove off-street parking requirements. Second, use market prices to manage on-street parking. Third, spend the parking meter revenue to fund added public services on metered blocks. These parking reforms can align individual incentives with collective objectives and produce enormous benefits at low or no cost. All these benefits will result from subsidizing people, not parking. Shifting the cost of parking to the parkers will make cities more expensive for cars and more livable for people.Shoup has spent his career encouraging everyone to rethink relationships between parking and the built environment, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and local economic development. This book celebrates Shoup's decades-long contributions to research, practice, and education, and demonstrates how his ideas about how parking reform can support affordable housing development, lessen air pollution, and reduce automobile dependency.This book will be of interest to urban planners, developers, elected officials, students, and citizen-advocates who are passionate about reducing automobile dependency and creating more sustainable and vital cities.

Ahmed, Abubakari / Akaateba, Millicent A. et al. (eds.), Urban Planning Challenges and Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa. 244 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1107>
ISBN 978-1-032-77018-5 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-77019-2 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Urban planning practice in Sub-Saharan Africa increasingly encounters complexities due to the confluence of urbanisation, climate change, and their interconnected drivers and consequences. The potential effect of these complexities on achieving the sustainable development goals is significant. This book explores the unique challenges faced by rapidly growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including urban crime, informality, land governance, development control, and the degradation of green spaces, as well as how these issues are addressed in planning education and emerging innovations. The book presents various case studies from selected African countries, emphasising contemporary urban challenges and innovative strategies, including implementing artificial intelligence, which is being adopted to tackle these issues. Chapters analyse the significance of reflective planning, hybrid governance, international development, and technological advancements in influencing the future trajectory of urban development planning.By providing a comprehensive overview of these issues, this book serves as a crucial resource for urban planners, policymakers, scholars, and students dedicated to the sustainable development of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Malik, Sawsan / Alkhaldi, A. / Alhaimer, R. et al. (eds.), Civic Synergy: Leading and Managing the Evolution of Smart Cities. 224 pp. 2025:9 (Emerald, UK) <746-1184>
ISBN 978-1-83708-043-4 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Permana, Ariva Sugandi, Urban Engineering. 752 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1185>
ISBN 978-1-032-66460-6 hard ¥54,912.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00
ISBN 978-1-032-65801-8 paper ¥21,679.- (税込) GB￡ 76.99

Urban engineers provide a physical definition of the urban habitat by planning, designing, building and constructing, operating, and maintaining infrastructure, applying the tools of engineering, science, and good management to address the complex problems associated with infrastructure, services, buildings, environment and land-use generally encountered in cities.Urban Engineering serves as a textbook to support a range of undergraduate courses in civil and environmental engineering, urban planning, and related areas. It is broad and inclusive, and takes a modular approach, where each theme is discussed comprehensively from the macro to the micro level. Highlights include urban design, housing, wastewater systems, transportation systems, smart cities & urban agriculture.The textbook has a particular emphasis on engineering solutions in sustainability.

スマートな都市におけるスマートな大学－教育と都市のイノベーションの将来を形成する
Rosak-Szyrocka, Joanna / Wolniak, Radoslaw, Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 250 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1187>
ISBN 978-1-041-03011-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sustainability. Universities are becoming an indispensable element of smart cities, driving forward innovation, sustainability, and urban living.The book explores how emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, and blockchain are transforming campuses into dynamic, data-driven ecosystems. Both of these dimensions are studied through data analytics, case studies, and futuristic thinking perspectives to identify opportunities and challenges of the establishment of smart universities within the broader ecosystem of smarter cities. The book offers a holistic approach to planning educational institutions, covering issues such as sustainable campus development, digital learning environments, and smart mobility solutions.As universities undergo digital transformation, they advance not only learning but also the larger role of academia in society. The book envisions the future, where intelligent campuses act as centers of knowledge, collaboration, and sustainable development, propelling the world into a smarter and more inclusive reality for future generations. It will be of interest to researchers and students of urban planning and sustainability studies, as well as urban planners and policymakers.

矢口哲也他編　気候変動の時代のウォーターフロントの再生－近年の日本及び国際的な経験
Pernice, Raffaele / Yaguchi, Tetsuya (eds.), Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change: Recent Japanese and International Experiences. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 280 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1038>
ISBN 978-1-032-98134-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts, in terms of a more effective integration with the city, whilst paying attention to the mitigation of the risks related to climate change.Designers, administrators and engineers need to start developing various scenarios and possible solutions to tackle the inevitable transformation which is currently unfolding. This edited book contains essays which discuss several themes related to the effects of climate change on waterfronts, looking at Japan's experience and other international case studies. Collectively, they provide a multi-faceted analysis of selected projects and relevant urban experiences and practices which address issues such as the environmental disruption and the need for more efficient and sustainable forms of regeneration and urban renewal practice for the waterfronts.The volume will appeal architects, planners, geographers, and general readers with an interest in landscape design and social science in an international context, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the disciplines of built environment.

Rahman, Muhammad Sayadur / Akter, Shamima, Mobilizing Financial Resources of Urban Local Government in Bangladesh. 222 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-764>
ISBN 978-981-9628-55-1 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book explains the dynamics of revenue generation and allocation reality of city corporations in Bangladesh. It explores the state of five consecutive years of revenue generation and expenditure allocations of Dhaka North City Corporation and Gazipur City Corporation along with a discussion of to what extent the City Corporation is allowed to enjoy fiscal autonomy through the Local Government (City Corporation) Act of 2009 to generate and manage its local resources. It also finds out the institutional blocks/challenges that the city corporation faces in the process of revenue generation and mobilization, even with the existence of a solid legislative foundation. Central to the book's focus is the resource mobilizing scenario (generation and allocation of revenue) of City Corporation over the past five consecutive years. It suggests some approaches that will serve as valuable resources for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to take steps for strengthening the finance base of urban local government through revisiting and redefining revenue generation and allocation strategies.

De Boeck, Filip / Baloji, Sammy, Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds. 330 pp. 2025:3 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <745-787>
ISBN 978-94-6270-455-8 paper ¥15,028.- (税込) EUR 49.50

An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today.Focusing upon the 'urban now', a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living - and living together - in Congo's urban worlds today.The authors, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Sammy Baloji, take the reader on a tour of specific urban sites in Kinshasa and beyond. In their detailed analysis these sites emerge as suturing points in which the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored.Reprint of Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds, Filip De Boeck, Sammy Baloji (Autograph 2016)Look inside and read the preface >

Connolly, Mark, Creativity in Education, Urban and Cultural Policy: A Critique of a Contemporary Keyword. 234 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-838>
ISBN 978-3-031-82797-6 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book critiques creativity as a 'keyword' in contemporary society. This is illustrated through an analysis of the uses of creativity within cultural, urban and educational policy. While there have been critiques and debates of the uses of creativity within these fields, the author innovatively bridges these disciplines by providing both an overview of the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of these debates and illustration of how they manifest in these distinct, yet interrelated policy spheres. Drawing on Raymond Williams' theory of culture as social communication and keyword approach, the book illustrates how the creative turn in contemporary policy can divert attention from structural analysis and provide a rhetorical gloss for inequitable social policies. It will appeal to academics, students and practitioners involved in education, cultural and urban studies.

Kilb, Rainer (ed.), Social Cohesion and Diversity in Urban Neighborhoods: Contradictions - Discussion - Implementation Procedures. 260 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-843>
ISBN 978-3-658-47461-4 hard ¥23,206.- (税込) EUR 99.99

In the current urban development debate, the vision of a diverse urban neighborhood is often linked with social cohesion as a target aspect of favorable community development. This initially euphemistic connection is in need of explanation, as valid empirical findings suggest that with increasing socio-economic and socio-cultural differentiation, the probability of conflict becomes more pronounced, and social cohesion is likely to decrease. Nevertheless, this connection should be maintained, as social science findings on social polarization and segregation, social segmentation, and fragmentation indicate that urban spatial structures should be designed in such a way that social diversity among residents not only coexists but can also become cooperatively action-oriented within the framework of a community. The resulting conflicts of interest can, in their constructive version, serve as impulses for democratic understanding and decision-making. However, this requires integrative and manageable components, which a well-planned urban neighborhood can provide more effectively than urban sprawl or additive high-density residential silos developed solely for economic yield. How a diverse neighborhood could be planned, designed, implemented, and supported in its community-building process is illustrated and reflected upon using the example of a new neighborhood emerging in Mannheim.

Marinic, Gregory / Meninato, Pablo (eds.), About Streets: Perspectives on Urbanism, Architecture, and Placemaking. 784 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-844>
ISBN 978-3-031-84230-6 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space. While 'the street' is commonly associated with urban form or the metropolitan context of social dynamics and design practices, this interdisciplinary anthology highlights that urban design challenges are global, multidimensional, and transcalar. This critical survey of the city collects a broad scope of practices and phenomena in urbanism, architecture, activism, and participatory design. Individual chapters examine the histories, theories, geographies, architecture, and design of streets offering essential reading for scholars, professionals, students, and enthusiasts of urbanism, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, and the arts. Over 50 chapters, authored by an international and diverse group of leading academics, theorists, historians, and practitioners, expand the discourse on streets and public space.

D.デッラ・ポルタ他編　多様な危機の時代における連帯の枠組－欧州の都市における社会運動－
Pajnik, Mojca / Schwiertz, H. / della Porta, D. et al. (eds.), Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises: Social Movements across European Cities. (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology) 190 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-845>
ISBN 978-3-031-82562-0 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book explores how polycrises not only generate new forms of inequality and social exclusion but also inspire new political activism, solidarity, and citizenship. It examines how social movement organizations frame their responses to exclusionary policies and regimes, and sheds light on their strategies for mobilization. By focusing on contemporary movements and their framing of social issues in times of crisis, the book offers valuable insights into social movement studies, urban studies, political communication, and frame analysis. It also engages with broader theoretical and public discussions on solidarity and citizenship. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in social movements, political struggles, and fields such as migration, housing, and care.

Sadoux, Stephane / Vincent, Marie-Pierre et al. (eds.), Gentrification and the Media: Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change. (Cities and Cultures) 282 pp. 2025:3 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-848>
ISBN 978-94-6372-099-1 hard ¥31,820.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who advocate or resist gentrification can be heard. How can this profusion of content be examined? What methods can be used to critically address the role of the media in constructing and propagating discourses on gentrification? Central to this book is the idea that new research should engage with the theoretical and methodological issues that emerge when media products are used as a corpus to study gentrification. This edited volume considers a range of means that are used to shape and publicize representations: contributions investigate printed and online newspapers, websites, blogs, television programmes and social media. It also aims to highlight the diversity of players who produce and disseminate media discourses on gentrification.

Jerrems, Ari, The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain. (Spaces of Peace, Security and Development) 208 pp. 2025:9 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <745-664>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4329-1 hard ¥22,528.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us about the current political conjuncture and interrogates the possibilities it offers for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community. The book traces the emergence of contemporary forms of neighbouring through social formations and moments of crisis in Spain. Its analysis provides insights into how neighbouring has been envisaged and contested. It reveals both changing conceptions of space and community while underlining how previous conflicts reverberate in the physical landscape, ideas and memories which inform contemporary political interventions.

Gong, Weila, Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. (Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics) 168 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <745-731>
ISBN 978-0-19-775742-0 hard ¥21,235.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Hon, Tze-ki / Chan, Ying-kit (eds.), The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War. (Asian Cities) 396 pp. 2025:4 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-735>
ISBN 978-94-6372-248-3 hard ¥36,044.- (税込) GB￡ 128.00

This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities-Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei-during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the imagery presented in their filmscapes, and the perceptions of their inhabitants, as reflected in fiction and films that portrayed urban life and the experiences of ordinary people. The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War explores both the shared characteristics of these cities as frontiers in the bipolar global system (divided between Communism and the Free World) and their distinctive features as unique spaces shaped by their own meanings and opportunities.

Pasquariello Mariano, Karina L. / Nitsch Bressan, R. et al., Liquid Regionalism in the Americas: An Analysis of Contemporary Regional Developments. (United Nations University Series on Regionalism 29) 157 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <745-211>
ISBN 978-3-031-83798-2 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book develops a comprehensive analysis of contemporary regionalism in the Americas, which the authors characterise as Liquid Regionalism, given its unstable, flexible and loose characteristics. It innovates by introducing a new concept to assess regional initiatives in the American continents, contributing to Latin American and comparative regionalism research agendas. The book analyses major regional projects in the Americas and develops these into a novel typology of consultation, cooperation and integration. This typology helps explain the level of commitments and institutional depth of regional initiatives across the continent. The book is for scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students interested in the regional and political dynamics of the Americas across the social sciences, including international relations, political science, sociology, international political economy, international trade, and history.

文化・社会地理学必携
Winders, Jamie (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography. (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography) 608 pp. 2025:6 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <745-213>
ISBN 978-1-119-63424-9 hard ¥41,827.- (税込) US$ 195.00

Addresses both social and cultural geography in a single volume, authored and edited by leading authorities in the fields The Companion to Social and Cultural Geography provides reliable and up-to-date coverage of both foundational topics and emerging themes within two vibrant and increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography. Building upon the Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, editors Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders offer an expertly curated collection of original essays with special emphasis on early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South. Organized thematically, the Companion opens with a series of "Global Dispatches" from cultural and social geographers working in different disciplines and locations, followed by explorations of key concepts in social and cultural geography such as identity, belonging, solidarity, inequalities, and intersectional geographies. Subsequent chapters examine a wide range of cultural and social geographies, including creativity, technologies, science, nature, memory, tourism, migration, labor, and religion. Throughout the Companion, authors share fresh insights into the racial reckonings of late, ongoing issues related to climate change, the consequences of COVID-19, and more. Across its 46 chapters, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography: Examines how approaches to human-environment dynamics in social and cultural geography help shed light on current challengesCovers critical topics such as justice, protest, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, genders, class, race, and sexualitiesEmphasizes the value of a geographic perspective to understanding social and cultural dynamicsDiscusses how geography has confronted its deep connections to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacyAddresses a range of emerging and established themes, including queer and transgender geographies, Black geographies, animal geographies, and cultural geographies of statesIncorporates a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, such as interviews, conversations, short essays, autobiography, and autoethnography Accessible, authoritative, and highly relevant to today's students, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on social or cultural geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.

Williams, Richard J., The Expressway World. 240 pp. 2025:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <745-218>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6010-3 hard ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly crumbling into the ground. How did we build the expressway world in the first place? And what are we going to do now with it now? This eye-opening book explores these questions partly through the great expressway abolitions of recent years, such as Boston's Central Artery (buried and covered by a park) and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon (replaced with an artificial river). But the book also uncovers the hidden stories of expressways that have become weird attractions in their own right, from London's Westway to Sao Paulo's Minhocao, celebrated in art and literature. Above all, the book proposes, counterintuitively, that we find ways to live with the expressway world and to adapt it to a different future, inspired by the many examples where people have already reinvented this challenging legacy on their own terms. Engaging with case studies across the world and recent thinking in the environmental humanities and architectural theory, this is a thought-provoking invitation to reconsider the most maligned structures of the recent urban past.

都市のマルクス主義の再想像
Biagi, Francesco (ed.), Reimagining Urban Marxisms: Rethinking Thinkers, Texts and Challenges. (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism) 336 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-745>
ISBN 978-1-032-60548-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms.Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the 'urban question', such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across the globe. With attention to the manner in which the three axes of class, gender and race play a fundamental role in contemporary social phenomena, it interweaves different issues that are inextricably linked in matters of urban inequality. The book bridges a significant gap between urban studies and Marxists theories by reviving Marx and Engels' ideas in the context of analyzing urban studies in the twenty-first century. The objective is to bring together diverse perspectives and directions of the ongoing debate on the "urban question". Although there are multiple Marxisms and theoretical currents inspired by Marxism that seek to understand the urban and spatial transformations of today, there has been a lack of comprehensive scholarship that systematically brings them together to frame this debate. The goal is to unite the main critical Marxist perspectives on contemporary urban studies.Reimagining Urban Marxisms will therefore appeal to scholars across disciplines with interests in Marxist analyses of contemporary urban and spatial transformations, and the phenomenon of planetary urbanization.

Arefi, Mahyar, Demystifying Informal Urban Design and Planning: Insights from Asia. 304 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-830>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7476-5 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

With more than half of the world's population living in cities, informal settlements, or slums, continue to expand. This book explores the informality-urban design nexus, and asks why formal urban designers and planners have remained largely reluctant to address these challenges facing our cities. What distinguishes the formal vs. informal urban design paradigm? While urban designers are able to identify and address specific problems like walkability, gentrification, or sense of place, informal settlement problems prove inexorably complex, and harder to fathom to begin with. Therefore, seeking to demystify these epistemological ambiguities - while difficult - makes sense. The use of abductive reasoning, regulations, aesthetics, and design epitomise the formal, while informal urban planning and design is characterized by information, assets and adaptation. In support of these thematic differentiations, this book uses case studies to better contextualize and unpack the metaphorical distinctions of the two theoretical entities. Conceptualizing these two schools of thought this way, the book engages urban designers with these debates, and explores how informal settlement residents see themselves, act collectively, care about their settlements, and leverage opportunities.

Rajendran, Lakshmi Priya / Odeleye, N. / Can, A. (eds.), Resilient Cities in the Global South: Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design. (Regions and Cities) 238 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-840>
ISBN 978-1-032-37377-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Post-pandemic cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is crucial for urban society's ability to adapt and evolve on multiple levels. However, in developed countries, increasingly standardised planning and development practices often hinder citizen engagement and participation, which are essential for building resilient cities.This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how diverse social and spatial behaviours within informal urban environments, particularly in developing countries, can provide fresh insights for robust urban planning and development.The book is structured in three parts: 1. North-South Relations - This section explores the global discourse on informality, highlighting its presence in both the Global North and South.2. Grassroots - This part focuses on grassroots initiatives and community-driven resilience within urban informality.3. Institutional Strategies & Professional Alliances - The final section delves into the role of institutions and professional collaborations in shaping urban informality.By presenting a range of perspectives and experiences, the book contributes to a unique Southern framework that positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience. It will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience, including professionals from fields such as sociology, history, environmental psychology, cultural studies, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, and anthropology.

水と共に生きる－南アジアにおける開発とアーバニズム
Rahman, Mohammed Mahbubur / Fatemi, Nawrose (eds.), Living with Water: Development and Urbanism in South Asia. 400 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-915>
ISBN 978-1-032-91064-2 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-041-00481-3 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Living with Water explores the perennial, dynamic relationship between water and the built environment in South Asia. This interdisciplinary survey of the unique urban and ecological landscapes of the region presents a diverse selection of cities and projects, and offers practical, contextual strategies for the design and protection of these sites against emergent impacts of climate change and population growth. Water resources in South Asia are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of global warming. In the many historic urban centres that have grown over time along the rivers and waterfronts of the region, deteriorating water systems and rapid population expansion have contributed to problems such as water insecurity, exposure of built structures to weather damage, floods, and erosion. Case studies drawn from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka illustrate a range of contemporary and traditional approaches to living with water within the ecosystems, floodplains, wetlands, waterfronts, river systems, and water networks of the region. Chapters authored by architects, planners, historians, sociologists, geographers, and environmentalists combine insights into analytical methods and processes of urban planning and development, with critical attention to the importance of cultural heritage, vernacular construction, traditional water systems, and indigenous knowledge in shaping climate-resilient built and natural environments. This context supports resilient ecology and a sustainable approach to building and resource management, offering guidance in the creation of water-sensitive development, integrated urban design, wetlands restoration, and more. Living with Water is an essential read for researchers and professionals in architecture, urban planning, water management, environmental conservation, real estate development, tourism, and local governance, and will appeal to broad range of readers interested in the history, geography, and culture of South Asia.

Jayne, Mark / Siying, Wu / Chenhui, Wu, Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 302 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-321>
ISBN 978-1-032-60100-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Building The City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational thinking. Drawing on these critical resources the authors explore the complexities of migrant's everyday past, present, and future lives. More specifically, they interrogate diverse and heterogeneous connections between work, domestic, and family times and spaces as well as foregrounding new theoretical and empirical terrain regarding consumption, pleasure, leisure, fashioned, sexual identities, and digital lives within and beyond cities.Premised on ethnographic research undertaken in cities across China the authors develop detailed relational comparative dialogue with the most up-to-date international interdisciplinary research.This critically challenging yet engaging and accessible research monograph provides an excellent resource for scholars at all career stages as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in diverse disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, management, organisational and business studies, human geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Rouse, William B., Innovations for Transformation: How Cities Can Reinvent Themselves for Economic Success. 160 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-409>
ISBN 978-1-041-05021-6 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-041-05020-9 paper ¥9,289.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

This book chronicles how four resort cities (Ashville, Aspen, Key West, and Laguna Beach) addressed failing economic situations to reinvent themselves and prosper. The author explores bottom-up reinventions of local community value propositions, often driven by economic forces that require reinvention due to declining or disappearing traditional economic opportunities. The author foregoes broad national policies and focuses on a wide range of types of citizen groups, local institutions, and businesses that coalesce to understand what is happening or has happened to their community. These cities then formulate future aspirations with new value propositions and experiment to determine what works. The investment becomes focused on emergent successes. The author addresses four community ecosystems and a spectrum of contexts -- For example, mountains vs. oceans and venues for entertainment vs. thought leadership. These four ecosystems were reinvented creatively to enable great economic and societal successes. In particular, the energy provided by bottom-up innovation was crucial. The information presented in this book is drawn from two sources -- First, historical accounts of such initiatives are leveraged. Second, and more substantial, are findings synthesized from extensive interviews in Asheville, NC,

Reckien, Diana / Juhola, Sirkku / Haque, Anika Nasra et al., Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities. (Elements in Climate Change and Cities) 75 pp. 2025:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1006>
ISBN 978-1-009-58712-9 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-58711-2 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Climate impacts and risk, within and across cities, are distributed highly unequally. Cities located in low latitudes are more vulnerable to climate risk and impacts than in high latitudes, due to the large proportion of informal settlements relative to the housing stock and more frequent extremes. According to EM-DAT, about 60% of environmental disasters in cities relate to riverine floods. Riverine floods and heatwaves cause about 33% of deaths in cities. However, cold-waves and droughts impact most people in cities (42% and 39% of all people, respectively). Human vulnerability intersects with hazardous, underserved communities. Frequently affected groups include women, single parents, and low-income elderly. Responses to climatic events are conditioned by the informality of social fabric and institutions, and by inequitable distribution of impacts, decision-making, and outcomes. To ensure climate-resilient development, adaptation and mitigation actions must include the broader urban context of informality and equity and justice principles. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Bianchi, Iolanda, Barcelona: Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages. (Built Environment City Studies) 148 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <744-1024>
ISBN 978-1-032-50076-8 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons - understood as a repertoire of collective action that fosters a politics of antagonism - and the local state. It critiques the dominant neo-institutionalist and neo-Marxist perspectives for their deterministic and siloed views, as well as their insufficient attention to the municipal scale. The book proposes a more nuanced, urban-based, outcome-oriented approach rooted in assemblage theory.The analysis addresses a central question: can urban commons-local state assemblages benefit the politics of urban commons? The book argues that they can, provided they form rhizomatic assemblages. These allow urban commons to retain their self-governing autonomy, even as they lose some of their material autonomy. Conversely, it shows that assemblages can also take arborescent forms, allowing the local state to undermine the self-governing autonomy of the urban commons.Focusing on Barcelona, the book examines how rhizomatic and arborescent assemblages are constructed, as well as the strategies that urban commons can undertake to build rhizomatic assemblages. This work is essential for scholars, policy-makers and activists interested in urban governance, commons theory and transformative politics. It provides both theoretical insights and practical tools for harnessing the dynamics of the urban commons and the local state to drive meaningful socio-political change.

Gunia, Nadege / Mignot, Jean-Pierre et al. (coord.), Development and the Sustainable City: The Limits of a Technical Approach. (Architecture, Urban Planning and Development. Integrated Environment Management and Resilience) 304 pp. 2025:2 (Wiley-ISTE, UK) <744-1025>
ISBN 978-1-78945-184-9 hard ¥35,392.- (税込) US$ 165.00

Lewis, Nigel C., Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development. 440 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1027>
ISBN 978-1-032-40495-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-40496-7 paper ¥11,823.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural, and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities. Individual chapters address different sets and typologies of global cities to analyse their comparative evolution and standing today. The separate Parts and individual Chapters have been grouped around 125 different established, planned, and emerging cities and analysed according to different typologies and thematic categories, that comprise: historic cities, early trading cities, planned cities, emerging global cities, mega cities, and megalopolitan agglomerations. These span five continents-including the industrial cities of Chicago and Manchester; new capitals such as Brasilia and New Delhi; innovative cities such as Singapore and Tel Aviv; and mega cities such as Mexico City. The book is fully illustrated throughout with modern and historical maps, which enables visualisation of the forces that have shaped ongoing development of these major global cities. This is an essential book for students and professionals in urban design and planning, administrators, economists, designers, and developers.

Lu, Isabel Fangyi, Reassembling Digital Placemaking: Participation and Politics. (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics) 150 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-1028>
ISBN 978-1-032-52704-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy. It explores the participatory practices of digital placemaking and their implications on blurring formal and informal boundaries of decision-making and urban politics.Drawing on examples from Australia, China and Taiwan, the book examines how contemporary cities are witnessing an era when digitality becomes a mode of placemaking and participation becomes an urban condition. Such developments manifest as urban activism, creative branding, tech placemaking and digital governance that trigger changes in urban engagement and politics. This book views digital placemaking through an assemblage lens to demonstrate how it can be a relational site of contentions and collaborations among civil society, industries and governments without observance of strict boundaries. Contrary to an often binary and zero-sum reading of urban politics, this book advocates for a tripartite assemblage model of urban politics that is neither hierarchical nor deterministic. This book proposes an ouroboros model as a systematic approach that conceptually anchors digital placemaking studies to the nexus of urban institutions and digital technologies. It reconceptualises urban politics as a relational process of nuances, contingency and complexity in the flux of cosmopolitan power movements and inquiries. Ultimately, the book develops the notion of socio-technical natality to counter the myth of tech inevitability and instil a thesis of hope and change.This book will interest researchers, policymakers and professionals in urban studies, media studies, cultural studies, urban communication, creative placemaking, community engagement, urban advocacy and urban governance.

Morley, Ian, The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning. (Elements in Global Urban History) 98 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1029>
ISBN 978-1-009-59876-7 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-44323-4 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

During the past one hundred or so years, urbanists have composed grand narratives regarding the development of urban design and the international dissemination of planning models. Yet, building upon this historiography, whilst the transnational dimension of modern city planning has centred itself upon the diffusion of the British garden city, far less attention has been put upon the global reach of the American City Beautiful. Owing to the ethnocentricity of American planning history literature, thus, the chronicle of the City Beautiful has anchored itself, literally and figuratively, to the North American continent. Yet, in truth, grand American-inspired plans were implemented throughout the world; indeed, they were carried out long after the City Beautiful's popularity had waned in North America, and they were executed under a variety of cultural and political conditions.

Saaristo, Saila-Maria, Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy) 251 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-1034>
ISBN 978-90-04-67801-9 hard ¥31,333.- (税込) EUR 135.00

Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations, and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance.

Reichborn-Kjennerud, Kristin, Sustainable Urban Transitions and New Public Management: The Norwegian Experience. 145 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-817>
ISBN 978-3-031-82306-0 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Nordic welfare states are often looked to by those who favor more collective and collaborative models of governance. However, as in other European countries, in recent decades the New Public Management (NPM) model has hollowed out much of the Nordic welfare state. This book studies Norway, a late adopter of NPM, and demonstrates the consequences of these changes on Norwegian society and its compatibility with the transition to a more sustainable society. The first half of the book demonstrates the ensuing consequences of NPM on Norwegian society, and questions whether NPM is compatible with the transition to a more sustainable society. The second half of the book describes a more transformative direction, furthering sustainable cities that will support the health and wellbeing of their inhabitants better, and ushering more collaborative efforts to improve sustainability. Working from visions of a new future rather than from existing systems, based on an alternative and more holistic governance model, could take our communities in a more sustainable direction. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of sustainability, public management and urban development.

Xiang, Yong / Chen, Yonghua / Zheng, Lingyun, Research on Coupling Coordination of Urban Safety Resilience Based on Disaster Prevention and Reduction. (Resilient and Friendly Living Environments) 228 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <743-820>
ISBN 978-981-9615-61-2 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book examines the connotations of the urban safety resilience system and the operational mechanisms of its subsystems. By employing a coupled coordination model, we conduct evaluative analyses across the personnel-facility-management dimensions of urban safety resilience. We provide a comprehensive perspective to help readers understand how disaster risk reduction theories can be applied to various subsystems of urban safety resilience, optimizing disaster management measures in different cities. This book is intended to provide practical guidance for urban planners, policymakers, and researchers, while also being accessible to general readers interested in urban development. The extensive experience and in-depth research of the author's team make this book a valuable reference for those seeking to explore urban safety resilience.

Zeunert, Joshua / Daroy, Alys, Sydney's Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability. 396 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-294>
ISBN 978-981-9607-09-9 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

The story of Sydney's metropolitan food landscapes is one of dramatic transformations of First Nations land amidst jostles for power and wealth. This book unearths Sydney's lost commercial agriculture since colonisation in 1788 to assess its fragile food futures. Richly illustrated, 270 images are encapsulated within 110 figures, including an array of original metropolitan-scale mappings. Discussion traverses the city's diverse cultural influences, from Indigenous land management to British pastoralism, Chinese cultivation of Sydney's "backyard vegetable garden" and southern European farming spawning billion-dollar empires. The region has further been shaped by a vast array of cultural and ideological factors and material practices, with relevance to planning, policy, ethics, geography, heritage, art, design and technology. This book is the first to bring Sydney's disparate post-colonial food histories together in one volume to explore the dynamics and tensions between urban growth and food production. The relevance of Sydney's food landscapes therefore extends far wider than the city itself, with implications for countless regions worldwide in a time of increasing climate and resource precarity.

Fierro, Pedro / Aroca, Patricio / Navia, Patricio, Abandoned Places in the Digital Era: Spatial Roots of Disaffection and the Internet's Role in Inclusion. (SpringerBriefs in Regional Science) 99 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-297>
ISBN 978-3-031-81872-1 paper ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book explores the spatial and contextual factors behind citizens' anger, frustration, and sense of abandonment, alongside the role of digital platforms in politically marginalized areas. It shifts the focus from voting geography to the geography of discontent, offering a new perspective on digital inequalities. The study addresses the complexities of "left-behind" places, recognizing that patterns of decline in developed countries differ from those in developing nations, where political and cultural dynamics play a key role. Using Chile's Valparaiso region as a case study, the book applies its framework to a context characterized by a strong party system, robust institutions, and high Internet penetration. Chile's recent political crisis, marked by widespread dissatisfaction, makes this analysis particularly relevant. Valparaiso, with its unique role as the host of the National Congress and as a focal point of the 2019 social uprising, serves as a microcosm for understanding the spatial dimensions of political discontent in digitally connected societies.

21世紀における地理学　全2巻
Funke, Jayson J. / Ahmed, Waquar et al. (eds.), Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society. 2 vols. 800 pp. 2025:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-1132>
ISBN 978-1-4408-7324-9 hard ¥70,400.- (税込) GB￡ 250.00

Geography studies the relationship of humans and the natural environment, and these 40 essays examine those geographical events that have most profoundly shaped global society in the opening decades of the 21st century. Explore how these events have transformed how people interact with the environment, from political and economic issues such as elections, market practices, and war, to cultural and social issues such as racism and gender stereotyping at work. Landscapes, regions, cities, nature, society, development - our entire existence - is tied up with space and geography, and thus geography is well-placed to provide important insights and perspectives on the complex events and issues of our time. Geography in the 21st Century studies the world's rapidly changing environments and its shifting economic, political, and cultural landscapes. The entries address social, political, economic, and environmental events - from the Arab Spring Movements to the Mexico border crisis in the USA - that are often complex, transnational, and interrelated. Clear explanations help readers understand the historical and geographical continuity and confluence that underlie these defining moments. All chapters follow the same structure to provide consistency throughout and allow students to compare multiple events. Each begins with an overview of the event; followed by a background section that describes the historical and geographic context within which the event occurred; then a section on social, political, economic, and environmental Impacts that describes the results of the event; and a section that analyzes the event from a spatial or geographic perspective and explains why it is important. Each chapter also includes a list of references and sources for further reading and a sidebar on a related topic.

Zhiqiang, Wu Siegfried, The AI City. (The Urban Book Series) 244 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-1137>
ISBN 978-981-9625-59-8 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book presents the concept of AI Cites for the first time. It includes the theoretical basis, development frontier, and different application scenarios of artificial intelligence cities. The book is accompanied by rich practical cases to conduct in-depth and detailed discussions on the proposition of artificial intelligence cities. It fills the gap between artificial intelligence and urban planning. This book points out the urgent human needs in the city for AI scientists to considered in the next round of AI technology development. It also provides new ideas for urban planners and researchers to solve problems with new technologies.

He, Baojie / Wang, Yupeng / Cheshmehzangi, Ali (eds.), Urban Climate and Urban Design. (Urban Sustainability) 285 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-1104>
ISBN 978-981-9615-20-9 hard ¥41,774.- (税込) EUR 179.99

Due to climate change and urbanization, urban climate change is increasingly prominent with significantly environmental, economic, social, and health consequences. Addressing climate-related risks, threats and disasters in cities to a significant extent means creating resilient, healthy, safe and inclusive built environments. Such an assumption is much truer since cities are the main human settlements of human beings. Typically, urban design is an implementable and tangible pathway to practically deal with the city-climate interactions, while there should be a large transformation from unsustainable urban design patterns towards sustainable ones. Urban Climate and Urban Design is a comprehensive collection of theoretical perspectives and global case study examples focused on three core areas of (i) urban climate monitoring, assessing and forecasting, (ii) mitigation and adaptation strategies, (iii) advanced and emerging design models and tools, and (iv) action plans and policy formulation. This edited volume provides theoretical and methodological references for urban climate research and generates practical implications for mitigation and adaptation capacity improvement. This book will be of interest to a range of researchers from earth and planetary sciences and environmental sciences to engineering, architecture, and urban planning. Beyond them, this book will enlighten policy makers, practitioners, and developers how to properly regulate urban climate through design interventions. We believe this book is promising to narrow the gap in the transition towards climate-resilient cities, and enhance the understanding of new ideas, methods, strategies, and policies.

Rosen, Christian / Gribat, Nina (eds.), Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South: Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 198 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-573>
ISBN 978-1-032-84086-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery.Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex configurations in which both forms always co-exist and compete as powerful social constructs. It unveils the juxtaposition, simultaneity, dependency and intertwining of in-/formalised practices and highlights the relevance of this perspective to better understand urban development, especially in the global South. At the same time, the book focuses on secondary cities of Ghana and Peru that are often overlooked in the existing literature but play a relevant role in global urbanisation quantitively and qualitatively. In offering a comparative perspective on two very diverse geographical contexts, ten empirical studies are framed by a conceptualisation of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' and a concluding systematisation of perspectives on this central aspect of urban development. Taken together, this volume make an innovative contribution on how to produce new and more diverse urban theories of cities of the global South.This book is essential for scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of urban planning, urban studies, infrastructure studies and international cooperation alike. In addition, it will be of interest to those in the fields of urban sociology, public policy, urban geography and development studies.This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany and by the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.

知識ベースの開発を通じた脱成長－人新世における社会的繁栄
Carrillo, Francisco Javier, Degrowth through Knowledge-Based Development: Social Flourishing in the Anthropocene. (Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia) 264 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-607>
ISBN 978-1-032-76583-9 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state. In doing so, it addresses the literature gap on continued social improvement within a postgrowth economic and cultural paradigm.Carrillo consolidates research on the degrowth paradigm and proposes a conceptual framework for continued social improvement based on the integration of tangible and intangible collective value. He proposes a method that accounts for effective social value through capital systems valuation and development and includes this operational metric system as an alternative to the metric of Gross National Product (GNP). The book critically examines the challenges of identifying a complete and consistent representation of total social value. The book also includes a series of knowledge-based development programs in cities and regions around the world and discusses policies and practices for urban mitigation and adaptation to the Anthropocene.This transdisciplinary book will be of particular interest to researchers of degrowth economics, sustainable development, and urban planning.

Yigit Turan, Burcu / Cate Christ, M. / Cerulli, C. (eds.), Getting Political in the Neoliberal City: Planning and Design for Social and Environmental Justice. 194 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-634>
ISBN 978-0-367-85929-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-0-367-85927-5 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

In a world defined by ever-deepening crises-climate, social, economic, and political-urban spaces emerge as both the battlegrounds of injustice and the arenas of possibility. Getting Political in the Neoliberal City interrogates the roles of planners, architects, designers, and urban citizens in challenging the pervasive inequities of neoliberal urbanism. Drawing from critical case studies spanning continents and disciplines, this volume reframes the intersections of spatial and social justice to illuminate how space becomes a site of power, exclusion, and potential resistance.Through incisive essays and reflective scholarship, this book explores how cities are shaped by market forces and neoliberal governance, yet also serve as sites for insurgent practices at various scale, grassroots movements, and alternative imaginaries that resist dominant modes of urbanization and claim just ways of making cities. Highlighting the emergence of new epistemologies, subjectivities and critical agencies, Getting Political in the Neoliberal City calls for a transformative rethinking of urban and environmental planning, design, and citizenship.Featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners in diverse fields, including architecture, geography, political science, and anthropology, the book maps the tensions between depoliticized scholarly and professional practices and the urgent need for politicized action. With compelling examples from Australia, Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, the USA, and Sweden, this book offers fresh insights into ongoing research on the struggles for more equitable, inclusive, and environmentally just cities. It also provides opportunities to understand the historical contextuality of each case and to reflect on the nuances, similarities, and global connections between different cases across different geographies.

批判的都市計画の将来－都市計画理論の新方向
Allmendinger, Philip / Tewdwr-Jones, Mark et al. (eds.), Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory. 270 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-637>
ISBN 978-1-032-51568-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-51570-0 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Planning lies at the heart of successful and sustainable places, yet planning scholarship often appears stuck in routinised patterns of thought. Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas both from within planning and beyond. Contributors draw on examples from across the globe, considering the applicability of concepts and theories across traditional divides. In this way, Critical Planning Futures continues planning's rich tradition of borrowing ideas from elsewhere and using those ideas to shine a light back onto well-rehearsed theoretical debates to set out new ways forward for planning in the twenty-first century. This book will be a vital resource for planning specialists, though the breadth of ideas will be of interest to academics and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including urban studies, geography, political science, and sociology.

Bain, Alison L. / Podmore, Julie A., Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 250 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-638>
ISBN 978-1-032-63250-6 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada's three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, civic and para-public allyship, individual and collective activism, and everyday practices of living and dreaming as revealed through photo-elicitation interviews and collective counter-mapping that together unmake and remake suburban places as queer.Queerburbia offers a comparative case study of how large Canadian city-regions become queerer through LGBTQ2S suburban place-making/unmaking/remaking. For urban scholars, it deepens place-making theory with the conceptual introduction of the neologism "queerburbia" as a means to re-envision metropolitan peripheries as sites of queer futures. Practically, it offers civic leaders, urban planners, and policymakers insights into the complex dynamics of municipal LGBTQ2S misrecognition and critical allyship strategies beyond rainbowization. Methodologically innovative, this book combines print media, census, and municipal policy analysis with expert and photo-elicitation interviews, counter-mapping focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork. It reveals the multiple layers of queerburban place-making/unmaking/remaking, demonstrating how statistical and media representations, municipal services and social inclusion policies, para-public and activist resistance and organizing, and individual living and dreaming emplace sexual and gender minorities in suburbia. An interdisciplinary book at the interstices of Geography, Urban Studies, Suburban Studies, Urban Planning, and LGBTQ+ Studies, its intended audiences are scholars of cities, queer theory, and sexual and gender minority life extending to Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology. It targets upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and practitioners of municipal social inclusion, including civic leaders, urban policymakers, and urban planners.

Bell, Daniel A. / Shalit, Avner de (eds.), Cities and Identities. 124 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-639>
ISBN 978-1-041-04096-5 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them.The question of identity and which social relations constitute it has been a central topic in philosophy and social science for centuries. While the state played a key role in shaping identity during the 20th century, its influence has waned in recent years due to market pressures, international agreements, migration, and institutions like the IMF, which limit state autonomy, hence its ability to design policies that sustain and enhance particular, national identities. This collection argues that cities are emerging as new sources of identity, possessing their own "ethoses"-distinctive normative characters. The contributors explore this idea through six cities: London, Qingdao, Tokyo, Mumbai, Istanbul, and Amsterdam. Their analysis draws on extensive document research, personal experiences, urban exploration, and interviews with residents from diverse social, ethnic, and gender backgrounds.This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.