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

オーストラリアの都会性
Cheshmehzangi, Ali, Australia's Urbanity: Architecture, Place, and the Pulse of Urban Life. (Urban Sustainability) 270 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <760-594>
ISBN 978-981-9538-80-5 hard ¥33,601.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Australia's cities are undergoing a profound transformation. The way people live, work, and interact is changing as urban environments change due to the interaction of public spaces, architecture, and economic expansion. Through an extensive collection of case studies that showcase the country's most ambitious urban undertakings, Australia's Urbanity: Architecture, Place, and the Pulse of Urban Life explores this progression. The book depicts the dynamic changes that characterize contemporary Australian urbanity, from the reimagining of public areas and waterfronts to the growth of major business districts and the emergence of high-density dwelling. It looks at urban infill projects that strike a balance between progressive redevelopment and heritage preservation, master-planned communities created for long-term sustainability, and economic innovation precincts that propel technological growth. The book presents a convincing picture of how cities are adjusting to changing societal demands, environmental issues, and population increase through these five topics. At the heart of this exploration is the question of resilience and sustainable development-how can Australian cities evolve without losing their identity? The case studies show that combining sustainable infrastructure, smart design, and public involvement is essential for a successful urban change. While many key initiatives demonstrate the need of sustainability and innovation in forming future communities, some development-oriented projects demonstrate how urban renovation can improve both economic vitality and social inclusion. The book ends with a discussion of Australia's urban future, highlighting the necessity of planning frameworks and policies that strike a balance between ecological responsibility and expansion. Australia's Urbanity is a guide to comprehending the forces that will define the cities of the future, not merely a mirror of the present. Showcases iconic urban projects shaping Australia's evolving cityscapes and public spaces. Explores sustainability and innovation in master-planned communities and economic precincts. Blends architecture, history, and policy to reveal the pulse of Australian urban life. Features 25 compelling case studies from waterfront redevelopments to high-density CBD expansions. Offers a forward-looking perspective on resilience, growth, and the future of Australian cities.

ラテンアメリカにおける大都市のガバナンスと社会的不平等
Ramirez de la Cruz, Edgar Eugenio, Metropolitan Governance and Social Inequality in Latin America: From Urban Segregation to Social Inequality? (Contributions to Public Administration and Public Policy) 139 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <760-657>
ISBN 978-3-032-09896-2 hard ¥33,601.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines metropolitan governance and interjurisdictional collaboration in Latin America, focusing on the "metropolitan problem" created by fragmented jurisdictions that produce inefficiency, inequity, and weak coordination. Moving beyond traditional metropolitan governments, it highlights interjurisdictional collaboration as a middle ground, drawing on and adapting the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework to contexts marked by weak rule of law and informal institutions. The book proposes that collaboration choices depend on the problem's nature, actors' preferences and capacities, and institutional settings. Through case studies of Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago, and Sao Paulo, it shows how inequalities, wealth disparities, institutional frameworks, and leadership shape collaboration, particularly in transportation and environmental policy. Ultimately, it advances a dynamic view of metropolitan governance as evolving institutions that balance risks, costs, and benefits, offering a new research agenda for urban governance in Latin America.

Fella, Alexander, Liquid Cities: Climate, Capital, and the Crisis of Affordable Housing. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-661>
ISBN 978-3-032-07398-3 hard ¥36,186.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is a timely and urgent study on how the financialization of rental housing by investment firms is reshaping urban climate adaptation with a particular focus on the coastal city of Norfolk, Virginia. This region presents a key example where rising seas and rising rents- two of today's major socio-economic and environmental challenges- are colliding. Attuning to a social geography of adaptation and finance, its chapters, dispatches from the frontlines of these twinned crises, are developed through the distinct views of individuals who navigate and contest the liquidation of their city by finance and by flood. From boardrooms to the rubble of public housing, the book details how adaptation plans turn climate risk into bankable assets, how a mobility trap forces renters into flood-prone neighborhoods, and how flood resilience was weaponized to displace Black public housing residents. Liquid Cities charts an ascendant financial sovereignty over urban adapted futures, ultimately offering concrete policy ideas for ensuring that renters are not left behind in this compelling account of capital, water, and one region's fight for its future.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali, Resourceful Urbanism: Designing Regenerative Cities through Adaptive Reuse and Circular Innovation. (Urban Sustainability) 155 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <760-686>
ISBN 978-981-9541-37-9 hard ¥41,356.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Resourceful Urbanism reimagines how cities can thrive through constraints, whether environmental, economic, or spatial, by harnessing ingenuity, local knowledge, and innovative design. This book focuses on how adaptive reuse, circular thinking, and participatory governance might lead to urban resilience rather than high-tech fixes or significant advancements. It makes the case that being "resourceful" in the urban context means changing our values for things like relationships, materials, ecosystems, and lived experience in addition to getting more done with less. The transformative tactics that influence the urban futures of both Global North and Global South contexts are examined in this book in a current and fact-based manner. It combines several approaches, i.e., formal and informal, grassroots and institutional, to show how locally rooted activities may make cities more regenerative, inclusive, and adaptable. The book is structured around four central themes that collectively define resourceful urbanism: "Community-Led Innovation", "Adaptive Reuse and Retrofitting", "Circular Resource Management", and "Multifunctional Urban Spaces". Each theme is illustrated through two in-depth case studies, one from a developed context and one from a developing context, showing how contextually tailored interventions can drive systemic transformation.

De Lima Amaral, Camilo Vladimir, The Urban Reproduction of Subjectivities: Deconstructing Neoliberal Architectures in London. (SpringerBriefs in Geography) 144 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <760-687>
ISBN 978-3-032-01464-1 paper ¥7,751.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access book analyzes how subjectivities are produced and reproduced by urban spatial structures in twenty-first century neoliberal London. In three steps, it examines the continuous processes of intertwining conflicts that constitute urban space: It demonstrates how contemporary neoliberal spatial processes enclose subjectivity; it addresses how these processes are mediated by design and science; and finally, it examines how detours and insurgencies might be developed. This book interrogates the processes and consequences of privatization. Neoliberal spaces disconnect people from non-hegemonic actions and subtly control the urban experience by encouraging consumerist behavior and passive spectatorship. Despite the dispossession, expropriation, and exclusion these processes entail, people come to love these privatized urban spaces. Using case studies from around London, the book challenges traditional notions of public spaces. Georg Simmel described the metropolitan spaces as experiences of difference, freedom, and rationality, but this book explores how spaces now construct a post-metropolis shaped by domestication and anaesthetic comfort, exerting control through invisible cages and reproducing spatial machines that reinforce consumerist subjectivities. It analyzes policies, plans, and scientific discourse to trace how fetish mechanisms contribute to the objectification of social relations in urban spaces. By helping to understand the political economy of urban production, this book aims to help overcome neoliberal hegemonic design-thinking strategies. Therefore, it also addresses conflicts, insurgent experiences, and practices that explore alternative routes, such as micro-utopias and hacking practices. The Urban Reproduction of Subjectivities invites academics, practitioners, and activists to open new fields for critical design, urbanism, and architecture, to search for new imaginings of a different city, and to develop alternative design practices.

Lukinbeal, Chris / Brunn, Stanley D. (eds.), Geography's Media Turn: Exploring the Digital, Affective, and Unseen. 383 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <760-690>
ISBN 978-3-032-10169-3 hard ¥38,771.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited volume examines how the arts and sciences have had to adapt, engage, confront, and even alter research, teaching, and community service because of modern media. The book describes how academics work with and through the media in their daily and professional lives. The acceleration of changes to media in the digital age has been astounding whether due to social media, web 2.0, new sensor technologies, fake news, or the rise of a post-truth news media economy. Many academics became media producers during COVID-19 having to engage in emergency remote teaching. Further, as academics, we can no longer publish our results and expect a metered response from all entities but rather must promote and defend our work in the media and the classroom. There is almost no part of academic work, let alone human life, that is not affected by media. Many academics across the sciences and humanities now embrace the media as part of their daily practice and actively engage in media production through building podcasts and convergent media sites, managing online courses and degree programs, or being administrators or educators who interact with the media regularly at local, national, or international scales. The chapters are original and written by a group of interdisciplinary junior and senior scholars from various world regions.

都市入門－いかに空間が人間の経験を形作るか　第3版
Orum, Anthony M. / Paulsen, Krista E. / Chen, Xiangming, Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience. 3rd ed. 352 pp. 2026:1 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <760-691>
ISBN 978-1-394-27204-4 paper ¥10,259.- (税込) US$ 45.95 *

都市、小売り、消費必携
Paiva, Daniel / Guimaraes, Pedro (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the City, Retail, and Consumption. (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography) 656 pp. 2026:2 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <760-692>
ISBN 978-1-394-27862-6 hard ¥41,310.- (税込) US$ 185.00

A comprehensive analysis of urban retail and consumption transformations across diverse global and under-represented contexts In an era defined by rapid urbanization, technological innovation, and shifting consumption patterns, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the City, Retail and Consumption is an essential reference for scholars and practitioners alike. Thirty-four chapters by an international panel of experts address the critical need for a comprehensive, global perspective on the evolving relationship between urban life, retail formats, and consumption practices. The contributing authors trace the transformative impact of post-industrial and post-pandemic contexts on consumption districts, shopping malls, and public squares while highlighting the social, cultural, and environmental factors that underpin contemporary retail landscapes. Moving beyond descriptive analysis, the Companion delves into the digitalization of urban retail and its ramifications for consumer behavior and placemaking. It examines omnichannel strategies, platform economies, and emerging phygital experiences that redefine how city dwellers shop, as well as the governance models shaping the future of shopping districts worldwide. The volume incorporates under represented regions from Asia, Latin America, and beyond-ensuring readers gain a truly inclusive understanding of urban retail dynamics. A foundational text that illuminates current debates and charts promising avenues for future research, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the City, Retail and Consumption: Presents an interdisciplinary framework combining geography, architecture, sociology, marketing, and urban planning perspectivesAnalyzes the digitalization of retail, including omnichannel strategies, platform economies, and phygital experiencesExplores evolving consumption practices through the lenses of class, gender, ethnicity, and sensory experienceInvestigates novel governance models for urban shopping districts and their policy implicationsIntegrates cutting-edge methods and detailed case studies to inform both scholarship and practice Balancing theoretical rigor with practical insights, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the City, Retail and Consumption is indispensable for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in geography, architecture, urbanism, marketing, management, and sociology. It is an ideal textbook for Urban Geography, Retail Geography, Sociology of Consumption, and Sustainable Urban Design courses and serves as an invaluable reference for urban planners, retail consultants, and policy advisors.

Polimeni, Beniamino / Megahed, Yasser (eds.), Cross-Cultural Landscapes: Investigating the Influence of Migration on Cities and Architecture. 372 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <760-693>
ISBN 978-3-032-09014-0 hard ¥38,771.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores how migration has shaped cities over time and continues to influence their architecture and urban landscapes today. It examines how people's movement across borders connects with buildings, urban life, and cultural heritage. Bringing together perspectives from an interdisciplinary group of authors, it also highlights how design and planning can help build more welcoming and connected communities. Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributors bring together diverse research approaches and perspectives that enrich current debates on migration and the built environment. Divided into four thematic sections, the book gathers papers exploring the central questions that arise where migration meets the built environment. It considers how architecture and urban design respond to global mobility, showing how effective strategies can promote integration, resilience, and the active participation of migrant communities. The influence of transnational movement on architectural languages is also studied, revealing how diverse cultural traditions shape the evolution of spatial forms. The volume gives special attention to the transformation of urban scenarios through adaptive reuse and heritage preservation, illustrating how the movement of people reshapes shared spaces and collective memory. Ultimately, it stresses the importance of sustainable planning and calls for collaboration among architects, urban designers, and policymakers to build resilient and pluralistic cities.

Prato, Giuliana B. / Mollica, Marcello (eds.), Ethnographies of Urban Heritage: Politics, Memories, Conflict. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 302 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-694>
ISBN 978-3-032-08655-6 hard ¥41,356.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Drawing on historical and contemporary ethnographic research, this edited collection addresses tangible and intangible forms of urban heritage, their impact on urban policies, and their consequences for urban life, both at individual and social levels. The chapters look at culturally diverse concepts of heritage in their social and historical context, bringing out the potential conflict that cultural memories and ideological approaches may generate and the related processes of social and political legitimation. The book offers different perspectives on how culturally driven urban policies interlink with power dynamics. It will contribute to understanding how memory practices may reflect changing historical narratives, political and ideological projects, and the (re)definition of social identities. This book is of special interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, urban history, ethnographic research, material culture, social and political sciences, and archaeology.

Schlenker, Kathrin, Humans and Architecture: A Corporeal-Phenomenological and Sociological Approach to the Allegedly Silent Dimension of the Social. 382 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <760-697>
ISBN 978-3-658-49588-6 paper ¥28,431.- (税込) EUR 109.99

The book makes an original contribution to a corporeal-phenomenological and sociological approach to architectural research. The author draws on theoretical frameworks such as the work of Helmuth Plessner and New Phenomenology by Hermann Schmitz, both of which are based on the premise that embodiment should be recognised as a constitutive and dynamic structural element of bodily existence. Through comparative research conducted in two libraries, the book exemplifies how a phenomenologically grounded sociology of architecture can be expressed both theoretically and empirically, and how phenomenological-sociological methods can be applied. Building on the empirical study, the book concludes with a forward-looking proposal on how the appearance and perception of architecture can be grasped, understood, and conceptualized. The author opens up a space of possibility for understanding architecture as a transitive, fleeting, and ephemeral medium of communication, and raises awareness for an ecological and sustainable perspective on building culture.

Smith, Chris L. / Ewing, Suzanne / Chi, Lily (eds.), Seeding Urban Transformation: Tactical Urbanism for Systemic Regeneration. 350 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-698>
ISBN 978-981-9535-57-6 hard ¥36,186.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across disciplines and geographies; critical and creative provocations between the tactical and the systemic, for positive change and urban liveability.

Sterling, Raymond L. / Carmody, John / Zhou, Yingxin et al., Underground Space: Use, Planning and Design. 2025:11 (Wiley, US) <760-699>
ISBN 978-1-394-20961-3 hard ¥26,796.- (税込) US$ 120.00

B.ウォーフ編　人文地理学百科事典　全2巻
Warf, Barney (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. 2 vols. 1519 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <760-4>
ISBN 978-3-031-92523-8 hard ¥206,796.- (税込) EUR 799.99

This encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in Human Geography. It offers an overview of topics, the origins and developments, theories and contemporary approaches, links to other issues, policy implications, and suggested readings. It allows readers to gain quick overviews and to compare and contrast different views and topics. Paying careful attention to empirical research and literature from around the globe, the encyclopedia is of interest to a wide audience that includes researchers, teachers and students, policy makers, (non)governmental agencies, practitioners, and many other individuals and organizations.

Leung, Yee, Digital Twins of Cities: Modeling Urban Dynamics and Complexity. (Advances in Spatial Science) 207 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <760-216>
ISBN 978-3-032-07965-7 hard ¥23,261.- (税込) EUR 89.99

As cities evolve at unprecedented speed and scale, traditional digital twins-virtual models of physical urban systems-fall short in capturing the dynamic and complex nature of urban life. This book bridges the gap between digital urban representations and the dynamic processes that shape our cities. Moving beyond conventional data and technological infrastructure, this work formulates a comprehensive framework for embedding urban dynamics and complexity into digital twins. It reimagines them as living systems that adapt, learn and evolve in real time, near real time and over the long horizon. Through integrated feedback loops between data, physical infrastructure, high-dimensional models and reduced-order approximations, digital twins are transformed into powerful tools for the modeling, simulation, prediction and proactive management of urban development. This book presents cutting-edge methods to learn, simplify and encode urban dynamics and complexity into digital twins-whether or not the underlying mechanisms are fully understood. It also addresses critical challenges such as scalability, uncertainty propagation, network sensing and data quality, and demonstrates how dynamic digital twins can be continually refined through new information and emerging insights. At the intersection of urban theory, artificial intelligence, machine learning and big spatiotemporal data, this book charts a new course for the modeling and governance of cities. It is a vital resource for researchers, practitioners and decision-makers across disciplines-inviting collaboration between academia, industry, government and professionals working on the frontlines of our ever-changing urban environments. Explore a bold vision for cities that can think, adapt and respond-one where digital twins become not just mirrors, but engines of transformation.

鉄道の地理学－理論的・空間的・経済的・地域的アプローチ
Roy, Stabak / Mitra, Saptarshi / Dentinho, T. P. (eds.), Railway Geography: Theoretical, Spatial, Economical, and Regional Approach. (Contributions to Regional Science) 316 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <760-218>
ISBN 978-3-032-07730-1 hard ¥46,526.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book comprehensively explores the design and use of railway systems through theoretical, spatial, economic, and regional lenses. Bridging disciplines such as geography, economics, and planning, it examines railway infrastructure's role in shaping regional development, urbanisation, and connectivity. Featuring interdisciplinary case studies from diverse global contexts, the book integrates historical perspectives with forward-looking analyses to address contemporary challenges in transport planning and policy. It serves as an essential resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to understand the dynamic interplay between railways, spatial organisation, and economic growth.