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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharma, Utpal / Parthasarathy, R. / Aparna (eds.), Urban Futures: Resource Conservation and Image of the City. 268 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-827>
ISBN 978-1-032-83511-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-10640-1 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book explores the built environment through aspects of spatial planning, ecology, infrastructure, and urban identity. By presenting case studies from both developed and developing nations, it reveals the interconnectedness of urban spaces with socio-economic and cultural dynamics, in addition to ecology and the environment.Urban areas and cities are key players in boosting economic development and enhancing social welfare. Nonetheless, the swift pace of urbanisation presents intricate challenges and obstacles in creating inclusive, sustainable, and resilient living spaces that are modern and capable of accommodating the growing needs of urban populations. This book probes various issues, interventions, and designs from diverse cities, diving into the specifics of sector-related concerns and new insights pertaining to land use planning and its implications, urban design frameworks, green and blue infrastructure, informal settlements, sustainability through resource conservation, transportation modelling, waste management, and ultimately, the image of the city.This book will be advantageous and appealing to students and researchers involved in the built environment, urban planning and design, heritage and vernacular identity, infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and urban studies. It will also attract the attention of professionals and policymakers associated with these fields who are engaged in shaping urban futures.

ホストの都市－いかに難民が世界の都市の背景を変えているか
Jacobsen, Karen, Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World's Urban Settings. 320 pp. 2026:1 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-446>
ISBN 978-0-300-25469-3 hard ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50

An important study of the interaction of refugees and cities, exploring how cities are affected, how they respond, and how they are transformed Cities all over the world experience large humanitarian influxes, and refugees and citizens alike must navigate the ensuing risks and opportunities. Over the past twenty-five years, Karen Jacobsen has studied the interaction of refugees and cities and has trained scores of graduate students, many of whom now work with United Nations agencies or humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. Her research team at Tufts and this global network of aid workers give her firsthand knowledge of the impact of forced migration on cities and the lives of refugees living there. Focusing on cities and refugees in Africa and the Middle East, Jacobsen draws universal lessons, distilling her research findings and wisdom from decades of experience into clear, vivid prose. The book is valuable for researchers, policy analysts, donors, and humanitarian workers in cities around the globe and for all readers trying to understand, beyond the headlines, one of the most troubling and volatile issues of our time.

Warner, Mildred E. / Bravo, Natassia et al. (eds.), Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches. (Community Development Research and Practice Series) 206 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <748-570>
ISBN 978-1-041-02426-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-91460-2 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The US faces a deep digital divide which cuts across both urban and rural lines, but is most marked in rural, low income and minority communities. This book presents a multi-level governance framework which explores how local leaders use policy opportunity and community resilience to address inequity in broadband infrastructure. Cases from communities across the U.S. are profiled to show how local and regional initiatives address the digital divide - how they harness local resources, state and federal funding, and how they navigate regulatory restrictions and financial constraints. Special attention is given to rural and indigenous communities, where the technological, organizational and funding challenges are greatest. The federal policy landscape for broadband is changing, and this book provides clear insights on how policy can support the people and places left behind. This book is essential for planners and those studying or working in rural development, rural studies, and community development.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Abiodun, Isaac, Achieving Sustainable Highway Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Creating a Viable Public-Private Partnership Model. 250 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-184>
ISBN 978-1-032-99813-8 hard ¥42,405.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

This book investigates the challenges being experienced in the traditional procurement methods for road infrastructure in developing countries and explores the features of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as an alternative procurement method with the potential of achieving a more sustainable highway network in Nigeria and other developing countries of Africa.The book starts with an investigation into the challenges of traditional Design Bid Build (DBB) procurement methods before examining the features of PPP and its potentials as an alternative procurement method for highway development, operation and maintenance, including developing and validating a PPP framework and model for application in the sustainable development and construction of highways. The PPP model developed from the study is expected to enhance decision making in the choice between the DBB and PPP methods during project planning and procurement stages. The author has developed a simple framework, illustrated in a single pictorial display the interconnected relationships, the performances of both the procurement methods, and the possible enhancement of the DBB method and the implementation procedure of the PPP method for sustainable highway infrastructure in developing countries.The framework developed and explained in this book will be of benefit to infrastructure leaders and policy makers, regulators, operators, maintenance agencies and contractors in developing countries and researchers and academics studying infrastructure procurement and delivery methods.

松行美帆子、中村文彦編　新興国における都市部の交通システム
Matsuyuki, Mihoko / Nakamura, Fumihiko (eds.), Urban Transportation Systems in Emerging Countries. 248 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-187>
ISBN 978-1-032-72615-1 hard ¥26,005.- (税込) GB￡ 91.99

This book offers the comprehensive analysis of urban transportation systems in emerging countries across Asia, South America, and Africa. It explores the characteristics, challenges, and opportunities of transportation modes, the integration of ICT innovations, modernization of operations, and the dynamic interplay between transportation and urban elements. This book provides practical approaches to building sustainable transportation systems tailored to the unique contexts of emerging countries. Edited and authored by experts with extensive research and practical experience, this book is an essential resource for transportation planners, engineers, urbanist, policymakers, researchers, and development practitioners. It also serves as a foundational book for professionals and students aiming to address the complex challenges of urban transportation in emerging nations. Through its insightful comparisons and analysis, this book enables readers to understand the challenges faced by transportation systems in emerging countries and derive lessons applicable to developed countries.

Thorbeck, Dewey, Rural Design for the Future. 236 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-227>
ISBN 978-1-032-81709-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-81706-4 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Design thinking and the problem-solving process of design is a strategic resource. Through creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship it can help communities optimize limited land and water resources in urban and rural landscapes. To address the problems facing communities, it connects human, animal and environmental health through design for both urban and rural regions.Rural Design for the Future provides a methodology for holistically crossing borders and connecting issues to nurture new design thinking and collaborative problem solving. It recognizes that human and natural systems are inextricably coupled and engaged in continuous cycles of mutual influence and response. It presents a process which provides an integrated system of human communities, plants and animals that meet the needs of people, the economy and the environment in the present, without compromising for the future. Following the author's first book Rural Design, it discusses the development of community based rural design over the past decade, and expands on using the rural design process to cross national, state, county, township and city borders in order to make connections for better urban and rural futures for everyone.The book includes projects from around the world including many of the author's sketches in black ink and watercolor of places that he and his wife have visited together. It will allow designers, architects, policymakers and citizens to envisage the solutions to some of the most pressing issues in rural design.

Muolo, Alessandro / Salvati, Luca, Linking Sustainability to Competitiveness. 168 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-228>
ISBN 978-1-032-93146-3 hard ¥55,126.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00
ISBN 978-1-032-93149-4 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book identifies and discusses opportunities and constraints in applying the sustainability paradigm to urbanization. It integrates this wide concept with 'local competitiveness' and focuses on the role of both general and specific political action in shaping the economic structure of a region.By linking sustainability and local competitiveness within metropolitan regions, it offers an innovative exploration of urbanization processes. Moving beyond the usual institutional and regional economic approaches, the book integrates perspectives from economic geography, sociology, demography, ecology, and planning. It presents practical tools and real-world data, enabling readers to interpret and delve into new urban development paths. By exploring the interaction between urban sustainability and economic competitiveness, a framework is provided that supports informed policy-making decisions at local, regional, and national scales.This book is written for academics and students-from undergraduates to doctoral candidates-who want a clear, practical look at how local economies, sustainability, and competitiveness come together. It is also helpful for professionals, policymakers, and for anyone curious about how economic growth might become a long-term sustainable political goal.

Jiang, Bin / Luo, Lan / Liu, Xueming, Healthy Landscapes: Theory and Design Approaches to Promote Health in Urban Communities. 346 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-275>
ISBN 978-1-032-51096-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-51097-2 paper ¥10,173.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design guidelines to improve mental, physical, and social health in urban environments.Although rapid urban development has created enormous economic and social value, it has also brought problems which have posed serious threats to the health of urban residents. Healthy Landscapes begins by reviewing practical experience, as well as theoretical and scientific evidence, from several related disciplines from around the world. This is used to construct a provisional framework consisting of ten theoretical pathways for the environment to promote mental, physical, and social health: relieving mental stress; restoring direct attention; promoting environmental preference; promoting sublime and transcendent perceptions; promoting active lifestyles; preventing the spread of infectious diseases; promoting ecological services; enhancing social support; promoting the sense of belonging; and improving the sense of security. From these ten theoretical pathways, the authors go on to identify thirty-six critical environmental characteristics for creating healthy communities, which are used to inform the design guidelines they go on to apply to community environment scenarios.This book will be an invaluable resource for students of landscape architectural design, architecture, and urban design. It will also be an essential tool for design professionals and urban administrators who want a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental theories of healthy communities with design guidelines supported by scientific evidence.

ジェントリフィケーションと公衆衛生
Ribeiro, Ana Isabel / Silva, Jose Pedro et al. (eds.), Gentrification and Public Health. (Geographies of Health Series) 300 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-281>
ISBN 978-1-032-80427-9 hard ¥42,405.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

This book explores the profound impacts of gentrification on public health, examining how this process reshapes socioeconomic and physical environments, exacerbates health disparities, and influences lived experiences. It does so through diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives provided by leading researchers from around the globe. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the intersections between gentrification and health, with multidisciplinary perspectives and international case studies. It explores key concepts, addresses methodological challenges, and introduces innovative analytical approaches to disentangle the complex pathways linking gentrification to health. With contributions from leading experts, this book synthesises current evidence and provides scholars, policymakers, and practitioners with the knowledge needed to design rigorous studies and implement evidence-based interventions that mitigate health risks, build resilience, and foster equity in rapidly evolving territories. This book is designed for researchers across social and health sciences, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as policymakers, urban planners, and public health professionals interested in understanding and addressing the health impacts of gentrification.

Vyas, Priyanka / Aguilera, Juan, GIS Mapping for Community Health and Development: A Toolkit for Policymakers and Practitioners. 194 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-288>
ISBN 978-1-032-85421-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-85420-5 paper ¥10,173.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book explores how maps generated through geographical information systems (GIS) can be used to integrate principles of health equity and environmental justice into community planning and decision-making. To do this, the book puts forward the 3Ps of GIS mapping: People, Place and Policy. For each topic, the book demonstrates how different maps reveal different spatial disparities, and therefore alternative lens through which socio-cultural, political or geographical issues can be addressed. Using a step-by-step approach, and covering the core concepts by which GIS maps can be interpreted, it builds to provide a comprehensive understanding of what a GIS generated map may tell us, though crucially also what it may not. Featuring illustrated examples throughout, the book is essentially a tool-kit to support a nuanced and holistic perspective on community planning.It will appeal to policy-makers, planners, and public health consultants, as well as students moving towards this field.

Foley, Rider W., The Myths of Regional Innovation: Sustainability Challenges and Responsible Innovation. (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) 316 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-324>
ISBN 978-1-032-99124-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Billions of Dollars, Euros, Yen, and Yuan in public funds are spent annually to promote innovation in metropolitan regions, attempting to transform the economy by attracting technology-based companies and supporting small start-ups to secure high-paying jobs. The impacts of those investments are typically assessed in terms of economic growth, venture capital, and jobs. Regional innovation is assessed with financial measures that do not account for the distribution of wealth, nor do they evaluate if innovation addresses broader sustainability concerns. This book draws on evidence from 144 interviews with civic leaders in three urban regions-Atlanta, Phoenix, and the Twin Cities-to illuminate three commonly accepted but flawed myths about innovation that misdirect policymakers and civic leaders and perpetuate the idea that innovation is solely about economic growth. This book draws offers evidence of the social networks, labor divisions, and conditions enabling innovation to dispel those three myths and propose more nuanced and realistic ways of thinking about regional innovation.This book is not an argument against innovation. Rather, it critically reflects upon investments in innovation and showcases laudable efforts to create a livable and sustainable city. The book offers a novel method to assess the processes and outcomes of innovation in a manner that can complement economic approaches. The author lays bare the human values that motivate city staff, corporate officers, and academic partners and highlights the efforts of organizations that often remain underappreciated. The evidence presented in this book puts forward a means to assess if (and how) innovation contributes to an equitable and sustainable future or if it perpetuates injustices and economic stratification.The Myths of Regional Innovation will appeal to scholars across broad fields, including innovation studies, technology management, entrepreneurship, economic development, and public policy.

Schultz, William J., Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City. 224 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-144>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8936-4 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-8937-1 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town of Colorado Springs. Drawn by cheap property, beautiful scenery, and the encouragement of civic leaders who saw religion as a path to prosperity, evangelicals planted new churches and built religious nonprofits with a global reach. They preached their message in churches and schools, even in the United States Air Force Academy. Their efforts transformed the city into what some called the "Evangelical Vatican" and others dubbed "Jesus Springs." But in the early 1990s, as the evangelical movement shifted its focus from saving souls to securing political and economic power, relations between the movement and the local community fractured. Today the city faces the prospect of reinvention, grappling with the challenges of America's fast-changing religious landscape. Jesus Springs reveals the power and influence of American evangelicalism within the nation's spiritual economy. Linking the Cold War and the culture wars, William J. Schultz tracks how a deluge of defense spending helped Colorado Springs become the organizational heart of American evangelicalism. This story, taking place as evangelicalism transformed from a primarily religious movement into the social and political force we know today, illuminates the movement's potential impact as its participants seek ever-greater power.