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

都市外交とEUの対中国政策
Kaminski, Tomasz / Ciesielska-Klikowska, Joanna et al., City Diplomacy and the European Union Policy Towards China. (Routledge Studies on Paradiplomacy and City Diplomacy) 164 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-918>
ISBN 978-1-041-17069-3 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book explores the increasingly significant role of cities as actors in the European Union's foreign policy, with a particular focus on EU-China relations. Analysing theoretical foundations, empirical data, and a survey of 745 cities, the authors provide unparalleled insights into the practices, challenges, and transformative potential of city diplomacy through its networks, partnerships, and direct engagement with global challenges.Examining approaches across cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Lodz, Linz, Duisburg, Ostrow Wielkopolski, and Dietzenbach - the methodological approach captures the complexity and variety of urban diplomatic practices to explore the factors influencing city diplomacy and address critical questions central to understanding its role in contemporary international relations. Considering how cities shape and influence EU foreign policy, the authors investigate how the size of a city affects its capacity for international cooperation and how collaboration with academia and business can amplify their diplomatic outreach. Finally, the book explores the role of policy coordination between cities and higher levels of government, highlighting its importance in achieving coherent foreign policy goals and overcoming institutional barriers.Bridging the gap between academic research and policy practice, this volume offers valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. By highlighting the growing significance of city diplomacy, it provides a timely contribution to the fields of international relations, European studies, and paradiplomacy.

スマート・スペシャリゼーションの解明
Papamichail, George, Unlocking Smart Specialisation: Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Innovation Strategies. (Science, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship) 112 pp. 2026:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <761-343>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4637-0 hard ¥23,760.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Unlocking Smart Specialisation explores how European regions can design better strategies to grow, innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing world. George Papamichail examines the evolution of smart specialisation from an academic concept to a cornerstone of EU regional development, highlighting why many regions still struggle to put it into practice. Papamichail introduces key ideas from innovation systems theory, institutional theory and endogenous growth, connecting them with real-world policy application. He presents both the promise and the pitfalls of regional development, emphasising how regions succeed when they build on their unique strengths, engage local people and institutions and create trust-based collaboration. Chapters cover emerging trends such as S3 2.0, green and digital transitions and mission-oriented innovation, arguing that lasting success depends on efficient multilevel governance and institutional quality. Drawing on global examples, Papamichail concludes that smart specialisation will cultivate greener, fairer and more resilient futures in regions that have effectively closed the implementation gap.This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of public policy, economics and regional studies. Its recommendations for governance reform, capacity building and stakeholder engagement are also highly relevant for policymakers and practitioners in EU institutions, international organisations and regional development agencies.

Fistung, Frantz Daniel, Sustainable Transport in Eastern Europe: Foundational Concepts and Future Perspectives. (Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism) 286 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <761-344>
ISBN 978-1-041-24669-5 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Exploring the crucial shift towards sustainable transport, this book examines how we can ensure safe and efficient movement of people and goods without compromising future mobility.Transport, while vital to humanity, currently generates negative externalities that can offset its benefits. This necessitates a paradigm shift in how we approach transport systems. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable transport, from its conceptual foundations and current achievements to future perspectives. Grounded in original research, the book introduces concepts such as "Sustainability 2.0" and "sustainable infrastructure," offering new pathways for achieving this paradigm shift. It also examines diverse global transport developments, focusing particularly on the European Union and Romania, utilising Romania's recent EU integration and its experience building integrated transport systems to offer valuable comparative insights.Presenting arguments and providing solutions for steering transport towards sustainable development at both micro and macro levels, this book will be invaluable for students, academics, researchers, policymakers, transport professionals, and anyone with an interest in the current state and future of sustainable transport.

Epting, Shane, Creating Future Cities: Technology, Ethics, and the Fight for the Good Life. (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) 192 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-114>
ISBN 978-1-041-12699-7 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book fleshes out the idea that everything about the city involves a fight for the good life. From how we conceptualize it-to its streets and the fiber-optic cables beneath them-nothing is excluded from creating the cities we want to call home.In turn, this book continues Shane Epting's ideas developed in Urban Enlightenment and Meaning in the Metropolis. It begins with an examination of how scholars define the term "city." He argues that while cities are often described as ecosystems or technologies, these views should be abandoned in most cases. Instead, Epting maintains that cities are groups of people capable of shaping the built environment and its supporting technologies, united by the goal of creating places where people can live their best lives. This is the fight for the city. That fight involves many elements vital to city living, such as streets, land use, historic preservation, and preparation for extreme weather. He argues that fighting for the city is not merely about control. Rather, its purpose is to create environments that foster human flourishing while safeguarding communities against disaster.Creating Future Cities will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy, urban studies, and architecture.

Agyekum, Kofi / Salgin, Burcu / Opoku, Alex (eds.), Research Companion on Circularity, Deconstruction and Adaptability in Green Buildings. (Elgar Companions to the Built Environment) 656 pp. 2026:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <761-1149>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4872-5 hard ¥72,765.- (税込) GB￡ 245.00

This timely Research Companion explores the intersection of environmental concerns, design innovation, and construction practices, detailing the principles and strategies that drive circularity in the built environment. Advancing life-cycle thinking in the built environment, leading international experts provide a critical examination of complex research issues linking construction and green building.Chapters present in-depth research and case studies on current challenges and opportunities in sustainable construction. Contributing authors emphasise how circular green construction adopts regenerative approaches that aim to preserve the value of materials, reduce embodied carbon and extend the functional lifespan of the building. The book provides forward-looking discussions to shape policy and influence the future of green building through circular approaches, deconstruction strategies and adaptable designs.This Research Companion is an important resource for students and academics in built environment disciplines including construction management, building technology, civil engineering, architecture and urban planning. It also provides actionable insights for practitioners and policy-makers involved in sustainable building practices.

Kumari, Tanu / Verma, Pramit / Singh, Pradeep (eds.), Urban Sustainability: Through the Perspective of Carbon Neutrality. 272 pp. 2026:3 (CRC Pr., US) <761-1166>
ISBN 978-1-032-83048-3 hard ¥32,670.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

This book about urban sustainability encompasses the overarching core ideas of climate, cross-cutting concerns, advanced technologies, challenges, and solutions with reference to paradigms of climate change. It addresses green urbanism with detailed emphasis on urban infrastructure and explores strategies for managing common urban environmental issues. It unveils various social and cultural issues related to sustainable urban development, inclined towards equity, poverty, and public health and offers guidance on how to create more sustainable, resilient, and liveable urban environments. It is aimed at graduate students and researchers in civil and environmental engineering.Explores a comprehensive account of urban-scale carbon neutrality.Provides thoughts about carbon neutrality's possible pathways, challenges, and related research.Covers impact of carbon neutrality-based policies on people, their awareness and potential role in influencing policies.Includes biophilic cities, green gentrification, ghetto, and geospatial advancement in sustainability.Offers a combination of theory and case studies that can highlight the versatility of the concepts discussed.This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in civil and environmental engineering.

Albrecht, Jessica / Sarkar, Sanchali (eds.), Queer(ing) Urban Space: Histories, Tactics, Futures in a Glocal World. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 351) 204 pp. 2026:1 (Brill, NE) <761-1205>
ISBN 978-90-04-74838-5 hard ¥32,054.- (税込) EUR 124.00

Queer(ing) Urban Space: Histories, Tactics, and Futures in a Glocal World brings together case studies on queerness and queering in urban spaces across diverse global contexts. Engaging with power, narrative, and desire, it responds to calls for new urban epistemologies beyond Western normative frameworks. The volume foregrounds intersections between Global North and South, exploring how colonial legacies, legal regimes, and spatial politics shape queer life. While research on queer access to public space has focused on Western cities, this book highlights underexplored contexts in the Global South, offering critical insights into how queerness challenges, negotiates, and reimagines the cis-heteronormative logics of urban modernity.

創造都市を理解する
Andersson, David E., Understanding Creative Cities. (Understanding Series) 176 pp. 2026:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <761-1206>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3834-4 hard ¥25,245.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This interdisciplinary book adopts a multi-level approach to understanding creative cities. David Emanuel Andersson draws on concepts of cultural individualism, generators of diversity and openness to experience to inform policy recommendations.Andersson utilises a micro-meso-macro framework to examine creative cities, providing illustrative case studies from fields including geography, economics, political science and urban planning. At the micro level, he explores personality traits and environmental stimuli; at the meso level, neighbourhood attributes; and at the macro level, cultural values and institutions. Chapters also consider spatial design across each level of the framework and are informed by the contributions of Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl. Ultimately, the author underscores the importance of smaller, intimate spaces and fragmented, decentralized planning in the cultivation of adaptability, creativity and bottom-up entrepreneurship.Understanding Creative Cities will be greatly beneficial to scholars and students of human geography, urban design, urban planning, urban studies and the social sciences, including economics, politics and sociology. It is also a vital resource for city and municipal policymakers and urban planners interested in cultivating creative cities.

K.コックス編　地理学の旅路
Cox, Kevin (ed.), Geographical Journeys: Geographers Tell Their Stories. 368 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1207>
ISBN 978-1-032-88864-4 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-88865-1 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

This book provides concise insights from a diverse range of leading scholars reflecting on how they became geographers.Asking how a range of geographers, representative of the field's diversity, this book explores the trajectory of their academic career, their formative influences, interpretive frameworks and divisions within geography, and what it means to have a geographic sensibility. It asks how geographers came to acquire an interest, and how they developed that interest. It interrogates the various influences and conditions that helped make them geographers; the interpretive frameworks that guided them; the role of the serendipitous; and how their ideas shifted. The various trajectories cover a period of dramatic change in the field, and this is registered in the stories told. Within that frame, and despite the particularity of each contribution, there are both similarities and contrasts.In these ways, the book offers insightful contributions on how geographies and the history of the field get made; and for those considering embarking on a career in geography, just what to expect.

包括的でスマートかつ持続可能な都市
Gross-Gniot, Elwira / Makiela, Z. / Stuss, M. M. et al., Inclusive, Smart and Sustainable Cities. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 186 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1210>
ISBN 978-1-041-12431-3 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book addresses critical issues for contemporary cities building their future, presenting a cohesive narrative rooted in the diverse experiences of its authors and reflecting the systemic nature of urban environments. The authors attribute the success of programming and implementing the development of future cities to the deliberate creation of stakeholder competencies, primarily through the use of smart city tools. It is assumed that, over time, these competencies will evolve both qualitatively and diversely, with their co-creation remaining a dynamic process due to shifts among stakeholders driven by migration, natural population growth or decline, and changes in stakeholder structures.While urban communities differ significantly in various locations, conditioned culturally, politically, economically, etc., the book argues that the mechanisms of smart cities can be unified due to available technological tools and methods of filtering big data for the needs of cognitive and decision-making processes. In this area, international experiences of both cities and technology companies indicate the universality of solving problems of city functioning and the great ability to disseminate knowledge in this area. The identified trends and applied conceptual approaches can serve as a benchmark for searching for smart city competences that serve the constant increase in the inclusiveness of cities. The book will appeal to academics, researchers and advanced students, as well as policymakers and practitioners.

Nordin, Noradila / Katuk, Norliza / Habbal, Adib (eds.), From Smart Cities to the Metaverse: Games, Immersive Experiences and the Future of Digital Interaction. 254 pp. 2026:4 (CRC Pr., US) <761-1213>
ISBN 978-1-041-11967-8 hard ¥59,400.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00
ISBN 978-1-041-11965-4 paper ¥15,440.- (税込) GB￡ 51.99

This book delivers a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving intersection between immersive technologies and the gaming industry, providing a detailed analysis of current innovations, diverse applications, and the transformative landscape of virtual experiences. It meticulously examines the core technologies driving this evolution, including Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering readers a clear and insightful understanding of their impact across various sectors, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic realm of gaming.The book's key highlights encompass in-depth chapters dedicated to the fundamental technological principles underpinning immersive experiences, practical game design methodologies tailored for these innovative environments, and a critical evaluation of the ethical, social, and environmental considerations associated with the widespread adoption of these technologies. It underscores the profound importance and significant impact of these technologies in enhancing user engagement, fostering groundbreaking innovation, and shaping the future of interactive experiences. By incorporating real-world examples and adopting a forward-looking perspective, it empowers readers with knowledge that transcends the boundaries of gaming, extending its applicability to diverse fields such as urban planning and sustainability initiatives.This valuable resource is primarily tailored for professionals, and students actively engaged in the fields of game development, immersive technology, and digital media. It caters to individuals at upper undergraduate, and professional levels who seek a deeper comprehension of immersive technologies and their practical applications.

Robin, Sean (ed.), Progressive Planning Practice: Transforming Communities of Color. 310 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1215>
ISBN 978-1-032-93909-4 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-93561-4 paper ¥11,282.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99

This book provides justification, a framework, and examples for an emergent alternative approach to planning and community development. Planning, design and community development have often been practiced in a monocultural way, as if all communities are the same, meaning that communities of color and low-income communities are often overlooked or ignored, if not outright harmed. This book highlights a new approach for transformative community development, where worldviews are rooted in the culture of communities of color and everyday people can find expression in decisions about a community's future. This transformative approach gives voice to people on the margins, unapologetically embraces issues of social justice, and seeks to increase the overall health and wellbeing of the community. This book explores the motives, vision, tenets, and challenges of this transformative paradigm, and provides numerous case examples from the U.S. and Canada. Including a range of diverse contributors, chapters explore themes such as decolonial planning, climate injustice, Black planning, ethics, and more. This book is essential for professionals, students and professors of urban planning, design, and community development in the US.

Schoenecker, Amy, Street Vending and the Right to the City. (Rights to the City) 216 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1216>
ISBN 978-1-032-99777-3 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-99155-9 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Street vendors often face disproportionate state violence not simply for their use of public space, but because of who they are as users of public space. Through a multi city comparison, Street Vending and the Right to the City demonstrates how vendors blur the lines of in/formality through their resistance tactics, and fight for their rights to the city not only as economic agents, but as residents seeking urban belonging. Given the state violence that people living and working informally face, claiming the right to exist in urban space, is indeed a radical act. Cities and states, from New York City to Uruguay, have begun to formalize street vending, with many advocates arguing for this approach, but this book highlights why formalization is not a cure. With international examples and an in-depth case study featuring a comparison of Chicago and Mumbai, chapters explore how urban informalities are produced and offer perspectives on roadblocks and pathways to gaining legitimacy. This book is essential for academics and students in urban planning, urban studies, anthropology, sociology, urban design, geography and political science, as well as practitioners and policymakers.

Shih, Mi / Newman, Kathe (eds.), The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 278 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <761-1217>
ISBN 978-1-032-74215-1 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-74219-9 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

This book investigates the treatment of land as a source of money in global urban processes. Probing land development at moments of value creation, capture, negotiation, contestation, and transformation, it sheds light on how and why value practices matter in transforming the politics of the status quo so that the social life of land may thrive.The book approaches value as a mode of practice to investigate how the deepening treatment of land as a source of municipal revenue and private profit has become a hegemonic project that penetrates and shapes key aspects of how we run cities and live our urban life. Closely related is a set of issues that greatly concern urban scholars, municipal planners, and community organizers around the world: the use and politics of land value capture (LVC); the role of the state in land taking and assemblage; mechanisms of land development tools and their impacts; public-private power relations; the conceptualization, production, negotiation, and distribution of costs and benefits; fiscal policy, and community mobilization and political contestation. Nine global case studies offer insights into the centrality of land development as a source of money, the narrowing of how land is valued, the resulting problematic outcomes of market capture of land value, the politics of the status quo, and community experimentations with counter and alternative practices. A value framework serves as a heuristic to help probe the politics of land development more deeply at different moments of practice: value creation, value capture, value negotiation, value contestation, and value transformation. Bringing the case studies into a useful juxtaposition, the value framework also outlines how to engage practices to generate a transformative politics of land under which competing value logics and the social life of land may thrive.This book is particularly useful for urban scholars, municipal planners, community organizers, educators, and students in fields related to urban planning and geography and those who are interested in issues around land value capture, land development tools, urban redevelopment, public-private negotiation, urban political economic analysis, community mobilization, alternative urbanism, equity, and justice.

Tasan-Kok, Tuna / Oezogul, Sara / Legarza, Andre, Spatial Governance Landscapes: Regulation, Property, and Planning. (Regions and Cities) 246 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <761-1218>
ISBN 978-1-032-11450-7 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

What shapes the city? This book answers this question with a fresh, relational lens: spatial governance landscapes, the dynamic interplay between planning regulation and property-market strategies. Centered on the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam, the book traces how rules, norms, and public ambitions meet the logics of investors, developers, and intermediaries to co-produce urban form and everyday life. Bringing planning scholarship into direct conversation with real estate and urban governance studies, the authors map regulatory landscapes and investor landscapes side by side, showing how their frictions and alignments open and close pathways for housing, land use, and infrastructure.Crucially, the book challenges a common hesitation in critical planning and urban studies to engage real estate for fear of "capitulating" to market logics. Instead, it advances a relational approach that makes visible the fundamental interactions between public regulators and private investors-and demonstrates why understanding these relations is indispensable to explaining, and shaping, urban development dynamics. Amsterdam may be a small city, but it is a revealing laboratory: its distinctive planning traditions, acute housing pressures, and concentrated investment flows render broader patterns legible.Built on extensive interviews, original databases on property transactions and planning regulations, the book moves from conceptual framing to empirically rich chapters on Amsterdam's regulatory infrastructures and evolving investment ecologies, concluding with a synthetic answer to the enduring question of state-market relations in urbanization. The result is a theory-driven, evidence-based account and a new integrative model that synthesizes market and regulatory findings, offering a transferable framework and research agenda for analyzing and governing where regulation and property meet.

Wilson, David / Wyly, Elvin, Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania: Urban Change in the Twenty-First Century. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 228 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1219>
ISBN 978-1-032-74225-0 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-74228-1 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others. It also explores how social science research into these issues may be informed by the insights of gothic literature as conceptual bonds are forged between the social sciences and the humanities. Focusing on Miami and Mexico City, the book reveals a new quiet warfare being unleashed on the poor and a "Dracula-like" development conduct being rolled-out that spreads rapidly across the globe. This book will appeal to students, researchers and informed readers interested in urban studies, city planning, urban sociology, critical geography, and literature studies. The book is lucidly written and substantively deep to enhance classroom teaching and provide important detail for research on urban redevelopment, city restructuring, and societal change. On the popular front, non-academic readers will find the book enriching and compelling, as only few books clearly and provocatively link the shadows of gothic horror with contemporary realities in cities.