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

Kassim, Shireen Jahn / Ibrahim, Illyani, Urban-Architectural Forms of Historic Southeast Asia: The Littoral Cities. 442 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-886>
ISBN 978-1-032-74603-6 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

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

Tran, Hoai Anh / Yip, Ngai Ming, People-led Urban Development in Vietnam: Interstitial Practices and the Production of Differential Spaces in Hanoi. (Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series) 176 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-890>
ISBN 978-1-032-77180-9 hard ¥15,154.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

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

Dixon, Pauline / Humble, Steve, Urban Life in Delhi Slums: Stories of Community Solutions and Resilience. (Routledge Studies in Cities and Development) 252 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-901>
ISBN 978-1-032-74033-1 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

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

Krishna, C. Yamini, Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000. 250 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <750-910>
ISBN 978-1-009-58382-4 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

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

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

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

Diko, Stephen Kofi / Asare Okyere, Seth et al. (eds.), Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 248 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-947>
ISBN 978-1-041-07659-9 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

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

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

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

Cunningham, Tim, Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict. 304 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-483>
ISBN 978-1-032-07648-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-07545-7 paper ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

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

Glinka, Kamil / Cabada, L. / Klimovsky, D. et al. (eds.), Urban Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of the Visegrad Group Countries. 272 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-254>
ISBN 978-1-041-04902-9 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

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

Han, Sun S. / Yan, Ning, Institutions, Culture and the Chinese City: The Unique Urban Development Trajectories of Modern China. (Cities) 288 pp. 2025:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-172>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1242-9 hard ¥30,030.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

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

Kebede, Gulelat / Gauntner, Paterson, Tools for Spatial Economic Planning: A Guide for Urbanizing Countries. 282 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-212>
ISBN 978-1-032-81812-2 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-81814-6 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

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

Ampleman, Luc, Transport Diplomacy: Planning Narratives and Mobility Cooperation. 162 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-215>
ISBN 978-1-032-94651-1 hard ¥15,154.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

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

中小規模の都市のための弾力的な都市計画ハンドブック
Asare Okyere, Seth / Diko, Stephen Kofi et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities. (Routledge International Handbooks) 510 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1027>
ISBN 978-1-032-94887-4 hard ¥65,780.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

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

クイアの地理学
Bain, Alison / Podmore, Julie / Arun-Pina, Chan (eds.), Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives. (Key Debates and Contending Perspectives) 368 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-1028>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2321-0 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

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

周辺と周辺地域研究必携
Banski, Jerzy (ed.), Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions: Concepts, Diagnosis, Dilemmas. 336 pp. 2025:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-1029>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3892-4 hard ¥54,340.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

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

Barnett, Jonathan, Redesigning Urban Centers: Adapting to Changing Real Estate Markets. 210 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1030>
ISBN 978-1-032-75786-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-75921-0 paper ¥10,292.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

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

都市設計の実践ハンドブック
O'Neill Robinson, Molly / Larice, M. A. et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice. 1104 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1040>
ISBN 978-0-367-82135-7 hard ¥61,490.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00
ISBN 978-0-367-82136-4 paper ¥18,300.- (税込) GB￡ 63.99

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

Sanchez, Thomas W., Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning. 260 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1042>
ISBN 978-1-032-76047-6 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76046-9 paper ¥10,292.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

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

プラットフォーム・アーバニズム・ハンドブック
Smets, Annelien / Ballon, Pieter (eds.), Handbook of Platform Urbanism. (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies) 336 pp. 2025:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <750-1043>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1375-4 hard ¥54,340.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

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

Swathika, O. V. Gnana / Karthikeyan, K. (eds.), Sustainable Cities: Paradigm of Digitalization. 464 pp. 2025:11 (CRC Pr., US) <750-1044>
ISBN 978-1-032-86118-0 hard ¥40,040.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

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

Ziaesaeidi, Parisa, Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 204 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1046>
ISBN 978-1-032-87695-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

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