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

Wu, Fulong / Keil, Roger (eds.), Changing Asian Urban Geographies: Urbanism and Peripheral Areas. 142 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <697-817>
ISBN 978-1-03-229090-4 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and interaction, path-dependent local institutions, and government policies work together to reshape the geographies of Asian urbanism. Touching on social, environmental, governance and planning aspects of contemporary urban Asia, the chapters in this volume provide grounded studies of residential relocation and changing rural settlements, property development by a congregation of developers, political ecologies of water provision, middle-class consumers, and local state agencies, transit-oriented development and infrastructure finance in peri-urban areas. It demonstrates an assemblage of actors and coexistence of multiple urban governance regimes with everyday negotiations.Changing Asian Urban Geographies will be interesting not only to those who wish to know more about Asian urban geographies but also to scholars and students wishing to see Asian metropolises in a comparative perspective of (sub)urban dynamics. The chapters in this book were originally published in Urban Geography.

Bigon, Liora / Langenthal, Edna, Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 256 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-983>
ISBN 978-1-03-252797-0 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on, and redefines, soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key and issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy and ethics. The book combines transdisciplinary perspectives on the key historical, philosophical, and political issues associated with urban experiences, built forms and infrastructure networks. It explores uneven dimensions in contemporary urbanisms and develops spatial phenomenological thinking with reference to the northern and southern hemispheres. This book connects the past and the present, in addition to Western and global South geographies, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Its main contribution is to broaden readers understanding of infrastructure through the lens of the humanities, and to engage with political, poetical, and ethical perspectives. This book is tailored to scholars working in the fields of urban planning, urban geography, architectural history, urban design, infrastructure studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, African studies, and philosophy.

欧州とアジアにおけるスマートシティ
Biswas, Prana Krishna / Dygas, Robert (eds.), Smart Cities in Europe and Asia: Urban Planning and Management for a Sustainable Future. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 196 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-984>
ISBN 978-1-03-242982-3 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

The smart city concept, together with the growing importance of the UN' s Sustainable Development Goals, has a significant impact on city management and governance. This book examines real cases of smart city management across Asia and Europe.It covers regions such as Iceland, Estonia, Poland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam to systemise the knowledge in the field. It evaluates smart cities' efficiency and analyses and assesses the standards, norms and best practices involved in the management of smart cities. The book answers questions such as what it is that makes smart cities stand out; why some countries in Europe and Asia have more smart cities than others; whether smart cities support the economy and GDP growth of the country, and what the main determinants of forming smart cities in Asia and Europe are. It also evaluates whether smart cities secure higher standards of living for their citizens as compared to regular cities. Many theoretical concepts and theories are developed and then verified from the perspective of Western economies. Central Eastern European and Asian countries are frequently overlooked, thus, examining the smart city idea from the viewpoint of non-Western economies offers a fresh insight into the concept and its adaptation and evolution. The range of issues analysed in the book are multi-layered and approached from a wide array of perspectives, from macroeconomics to management, finance and technology and public policy. Thus, the book is addressed to researchers, students and academics who specialize in sustainable and regional development, economic geography and management. It will also be of interest to urban planners, environmental scientists and policymakers.

Hillmann, Felicitas / Samers, Michael (eds.), Cities, Migration, and Governance: Beyond Scales and Levels. 156 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-989>
ISBN 978-1-03-244788-9 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume examines how cities, migration, and urban governance are intertwined. Questioning and re-working the conceptual reliance on "scales" and "levels", it draws on examples from both Europe and North America to conceptualize the variety of cities as re-active and pro-active within "glocal" and "socio-territorial dynamics".The book covers the governance of the myriad dimensions of urban life, such as work, housing, racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, the arts, leisure, and other cultural practices, political participation, social movements, and "contentious politics" in North American and European cities. While cities might implement "integration policies," the chapters do not necessarily assume that migrants live with the telos of "integration", but rather conduct their lives as anyone else would, making meaning and voicing concerns under often difficult material conditions, strewn with the markers of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, and often illegality. The volume highlights four arguments, themes, or contributions addressed by one or more of the chapters: how demographic change is prompting more pro-active urban governance responses in many cities in the 21st century; how the sheer complexity of migration in the 21st century is shaping the participation of citizen civil society actors, the growing role of new private actors in the realm of urban governance, and the participation of migrants themselves in this governance. The book reminds us that we are confronted with a spectrum of urban governance strategies, ranging from re-active cities to pro-active and welcoming cities.Both timely and relevant, this book collects the work of well-known scholars in the field of migration and urban studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Geographical Review.

Kumar, L. Ashok / Manivel, R. / Dor, Eyal Ben (eds.), Sustainable Digital Technologies for Smart Cities: Healthcare, Communication, and Transportation. 264 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-991>
ISBN 978-1-03-230984-2 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This book focusses on recent and emerging techniques for enhancement of smart healthcare, smart communication, and smart transportation system. It covers topics ranging from Machine learning techniques, Internet of Things, Security aspects of medical documents, Performance of various protocols used in the communication and transportation environment, Simulation of systems for real time applications and its overall analysis. Applications such as transportation system, stock market prediction, smart cities and vehicular communication are dealt with.Features: Covers three important aspects of smart cities i.e. healthcare, smart communication and information, and smart transportation technologies. Discusses on various security aspects of medical documents and the data preserving mechanisms. Provides better solution using IoT techniques for healthcare, transportation and communication systems. Includes the implementation example, various datasets, experimental results and simulation procedures. Offers solution for various disease prediction systems with intelligent techniques.This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, and data analytics.

比較的グローバル都市研究ハンドブック
Le Gales, Patrick / Robinson, Jennifer (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies. (Routledge International Handbooks) 632 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <697-992>
ISBN 978-0-367-25466-7 hard ¥46,189.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and take forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigour and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together at least 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field, and extends current thinking and practice.The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, planning, and urban studies.

Modigliani, Leah, Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action. (Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City) 216 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-993>
ISBN 978-1-03-219511-7 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorizes artists' responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centers. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of counter-revanchism in the context of the rise of the global city. How do artists channel the global spatial conflicts of the twenty-first century through their behaviours, actions and constructions in and on the actually existing conditions of the street? What does it mean for artists-the very symbol of freedom of personal expression-to shut down space? To refuse entry? To block others' passage? The late critical geographer Neil Smith's influential writing on the revanchist city is used as a theoretical frame for understanding how contemporary artists engender the public sphere through their work in public urban spaces. Each chapter is a case study that analyses artworks that have taken the form of walls and barricades in China, USA, UK, Ukraine, and Mexico. In doing so, the author draws upon diverse fields including art history, geography, philosophy, political science, theatre studies and urban studies to situate the art in a broader context of the humanities with the aim of modelling interdisciplinary research grounded in an ethics of solidarity with global social justice work. Collectively these case studies reveal how artists' local responses to urban revanchism since the end of the Cold War are productive reorientations of social relations and harbingers of worlds to come. By using plain language and avoiding excessive academic jargon, the book is accessible to a wide variety of readers. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students in the fields of studio art, modern and contemporary art history, performance studies, visual culture, and visual studies; especially in relation to those interested in conceptual practices, performance art, site-specificity, public art, political activism, and socially engaged art. Cultural geographers and urban theorists interested in the social and political ramifications of temporary and everyday urbanism will also find the analysis of artworks relevant to their own studies.

Pauwels, Luc (ed.), Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology: Exploring the Urban Everyday. (Research in Urban Sociology 18, Part B) 288 pp. 2023:7 (Emerald, UK) <697-994>
ISBN 978-1-80455-633-7 hard ¥25,700.- (税込) US$ 132.00

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas. Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology I and II explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology. Both volumes comprise examinations of sources, tools, and methods to capture, analyze, and communicate the visual dimension of urban environments, using existing visual sources as well as visual media as tools to both produce data and communicate insights and views on the contemporary urban condition and experience. Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B explores the urban every day in globalizing cities, considering utilizing perception in motion, the visual component of neighbourhoods, smoking in the city, resignifying urban traces of colonialism, visual/sensory ethnography and co-living with death, and isolated buildings as indicators of social change. Yielding empirical data and insights regarding the visually observable impact of urban planners, designers, advertisers, commercial forces, cultural institutions, local authorities, artists, protesters as social agents in the (re)production of urban cultural processes, both volumes are a novel and wide-ranging contribution that advances the contours and potential of a more 'visual' urban sociology.

Pauwels, Luc (ed.), Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology: Imagining the Sensory City. (Research in Urban Sociology 18, Part A) 244 pp. 2023:7 (Emerald, UK) <697-995>
ISBN 978-1-83909-969-4 hard ¥24,142.- (税込) US$ 124.00

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas. Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology. Both volumes comprise examinations of sources, tools, and methods to capture, analyze, and communicate the visual dimension of urban environments, using existing visual sources as well as visual media as tools to both produce data and communicate insights and views on the contemporary urban condition and experience. Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part A imagines the sensory city through cross disciplinary perspectives, methods, and technology, considering the city as home, the past as a data visualization and analysis tool, geo-referencing and historic photographs, playing the Early Renaissance City, and concluding with learning from street view. Yielding empirical data and insights regarding the visually observable impact of urban planners, designers, advertisers, commercial forces, cultural institutions, local authorities, artists, protesters as social agents in the (re)production of urban cultural processes, both volumes are a novel and wide-ranging contribution that advances the contours and potential of a more 'visual' urban sociology.

Richards, Simon / Sanliturk, C. / Schmidt, R., III (eds.), Region. (Critiques) 352 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-997>
ISBN 978-1-03-242257-2 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-242297-8 paper ¥8,748.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice.It questions what the 'region' and 'regional' mean for architectural cultures past and present, and speculates on what forms and in which senses they might exist in future. To that end, the contributions explore region as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity, as a mythical locus of enduring value, as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques, as a site of architectural and artistic imagination, and as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical page to architectural and urban practice, and from the scale of the domestic hearth to the archipelago and international law, avoiding the more predictable, long-standing trope of viewing architectural regionalism purely as a matter of style. Curated into four key areas, the contributions come from scholars in the US, UK, Poland, Australia, Italy, Serbia, India, Spain, Africa, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Iran, Bangladesh, China, Greece, Russia and Singapore. Together, they provide an essential volume for students, researchers and professionals.

Shekhar, Sulochana / Kumar, Deepak (eds.), Geoinformatics for Sustainable Urban Development. (Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia) 392 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-999>
ISBN 978-1-03-236256-4 hard ¥26,741.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area. It elucidates the role of geospatial techniques such as GIS and GNSS including remote sensing in urban management and covers the theory and practice of urban sustainability transitions. It provides case studies and contextualized tools for the governance of urban transitions to present various applications of geospatial techniques in an urban environment. Features: Covers hands-on approaches on quantitative measures of urban analytics Focusses on sustainability issues in urban planning and development Includes pertinent global case studies for implementation of urban planning practices Reviews inter-relationship between smart cities and sustainable developmentThis book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in GIS, urban sciences, and geography.

Darden, Joe T., Detroit After Bankruptcy: Are There Trends Towards an Inclusive City? 288 pp. 2023:7 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-703>
ISBN 978-1-4473-4433-9 hard ¥19,444.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99
ISBN 978-1-4473-4435-3 paper ¥6,560.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a 'new beginning'. This book critically examines the evidence for and against this claim. Joe Darden analyses whether Detroit's patterns of race and class neighbourhood inequality have persisted or whether investments have led to improvements in academic achievement, homeownership, employment, and reductions in poverty and violent crime. He measures, quantitatively, the benefits and disadvantages of staying in urban Detroit or moving to the suburbs, and provides evidence to answer whether Detroit, after bankruptcy, is becoming an inclusive city.

公共部門におけるスマートな組織－EUにおける持続可能な地域開発
Godlewska-Majkowska, Hanna / Zarebski, Patrycjusz et al., Smart Organizations in the Public Sector: Sustainable Local Development in the European Union. (Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations) 224 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-705>
ISBN 978-1-03-220907-4 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

How does a smart organization model enable self-governments to lead local and regional development in a sustainable and resilient manner? What are key aspects of smart organizations impacting the success of self-governments in attracting and retaining residents, entrepreneurs, and investors? Smart organizations became a relevant construct in economic and management sciences. They supply many practical applications for self-governments and public sector organizations that are looking for effective ways to leverage their resources and capabilities in the local and regional development process. This research monograph indicates how factors of smart organizations in local administration lead to sustainable and resilient development processes. In parallel, the monograph is a practical guide for local government managers looking for the best, international practices in collecting, researching, and interpreting data for making decisions that influence the competitiveness and market position of locations they govern.

Boyer, Kate / Eaves, LaToya / Fluri, Jennifer (eds.), Activist Feminist Geographies. 288 pp. 2023:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <697-251>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2509-9 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99

Exploring what it means to enact feminist geography, this book brings together contemporary, cutting edge cases of social justice activism and collaborative research with activists. From Black feminist organising in the American South to the stories of feminist geography collectives in Latin America, the editors present contemporary case studies from the Global North and South. The chapters showcase the strength and vibrancy of activist-engaged scholarship taking place in the field and serve as a call to action, exploring how this work advances real-world efforts to fight injustice and re-make the world as a fairer, more equitable and more accepting place.

Hollands, Robert, Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy. 240 pp. 2023:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <697-253>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3312-4 hard ¥19,448.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such 'urban makeovers' lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity, gentrification and environmental issues. In light of the pandemic and climate crisis, how well are city economies, based largely on culture, nightlife and tourism, meeting basic societal needs? Blending lively case studies of alternative cultural practices and spaces with broader theoretical debates, this book explores the opportunities for a more just and sustainable urban future.

Reis Mourao, Paulo Jorge / Blanco-Varela, B. et al. (eds.), Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces: Global Policy Experiences and Implications. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 304 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-254>
ISBN 978-1-03-204107-0 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions, in particular - are spaces that in potential can and do create significant value (if their resources are properly rediscovered) and create many potential costs (if these spaces are increasingly neglected by economic agents). The editors have identified a gap in current research because there is not enough empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.Abandoning regions can lead to, for example, pollution, uncontrolled forest fires, vandalism heritage deterioration, and potentially untreated industrial facilities, carrying potential costs not only in environmental sustainability, but also in values such as landscape aesthetics. Thus, this book reflects on the dimensions of the identification of such Forgotten Spaces, on the design of policies focused on minimizing associated costs and on the scope of programs to promote these areas, not only for upgrading them but also for promoting their environmental sustainability. The comparative approach of the empirical part also allows knowledge and experience from diverse longitudes and latitudes. The editors highlight the richness of the experience of Latin American countries, the polarization and interesting experiences from several sector rediscovered in Europe, as well as the holistic cases coming from several African experiences.This book will attract the attention of academicians, politicians and ultimately the attention of all decision-makers who most likely are forgetting many of the Spaces around them.

欧州の地域政策・開発
Sanchez-Carreira, Maria del Carmen / Reis Mourao, P. J. (eds.), European Regional Policy and Development: Forgotten Regions and Spaces. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 232 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-255>
ISBN 978-1-03-218796-9 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy. Thus, regions have become more active in the design and implementation of policies, following a bottom-up approach, involving the participation of the local community in strategic planning, as opposed to the traditional top-down method. This book addresses regional development theories and policies, with a special focus on forgotten places, and raises emerging questions about recent theoretical advances, as well as trends and challenges in the field. It examines two main and related issues: the crucial role of regional actors for development and the role of forgotten spaces. It emphasizes the spatial/territorial approaches from different theoretical perspectives, underlining place-based approaches and compares the experiences of both successful and failed cases, attempting to identify lessons and policy recommendations, as well as adding empirical evidence to this field. The different cases presented, which focus on forgotten spaces, allow the reader to assess the role of different actors for regional development as well as some sectoral approaches. While there is a clear focus on European countries with different geographical, institutional and sociocultural characteristics, the book also examines good and bad examples of regional development and policies relating to forgotten places from different regions worldwide, including developed and developing countries.The book benefits from contributions from over twenty authors from different nationalities, and a rich diversity of case studies, approaches and methods of discussion. The authors discuss practical examples and more complex theoretical approaches, involving techniques of spatial analysis, spatial econometrics, social networks, content analysis as well as regional planning techniques. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience and will provide academicians, politicians, and policy designers with original and detailed analyses.

林真人著　都市部の貧困の再設計－日本におけるホームレスネス、国家再編成、都市政治
Hayashi, Mahito, Rescaling Urban Poverty: Homelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan. (RGS-IBG Book Series) 304 pp. 2023:5 (Wiley, US) <697-311>
ISBN 978-1-119-69097-9 hard ¥18,486.- (税込) US$ 94.95
ISBN 978-1-119-69102-0 paper ¥7,778.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Sheppard, Adam / Croft, Nick / Smith, Nick, The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning. 2nd ed. (Short Guides) 192 pp. 2023:5 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-1000>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6981-3 paper ¥3,643.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

The fully updated Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides an concise introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. This second edition considers who planners are and what they do, showing how planning - as an art, science and system - has evolved as an organised action of the state. The book discusses the planning system, processes, legal constructs and approaches, taking into account the recent regulatory changes within the UK nations. Restructured to improve readability, it explores the interactions of government and society with the planning system, and the relationship between urban planning, the environment, and placemaking. It encourages the reader to adopt a reflective and inquisitive outlook, and features: * case study boxes; * further reading and resources; * guidance on the recent policy and system updates, including those through devolution.

Yuille, Andy, Beyond Neighbourhood Planning: Knowledge, Care, Legitimacy. 224 pp. 2023:6 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-1002>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6283-8 hard ¥20,903.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99

The past three decades have seen an international 'turn to participation' - letting those who will be affected by neighbourhood planning outcomes play an active role in decision-making - but there is widespread dissatisfaction with actual instances of citizen-state engagement. This innovative analysis brings theory, research and practice together and gives insights into how and why citizen voices either become effective or get excluded. Using ethnographic data to illustrate a wide range of participatory and localist governance practices and social movements, the book concludes with recommendations to re-invigorate community involvement in planning.

Carbone, Antonio, Epidemic Cities. (Elements in Global Urban History) 75 pp. 2022:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-703>
ISBN 978-1-108-93089-5 paper ¥4,132.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Epidemic Cities provides an overview of the history of epidemics through a particular focus on a range of cities in different regions of the world. The dual focus on both epidemics and specific cities provides an unusual perspective on global history: the analysis of globally circulating epidemics enables reconstructing a variety of wide-reaching entanglements, on the one hand. On the other hand, the concentration with specific urban settings highlights differences and the unevenness engendered by global entanglements. After an introduction concerning the history of the relationship between medicine, epidemics, and cities, the book focuses on the history of three epidemic diseases and how they affected Paris, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Bombay, and Baltimore. The timings of major pandemics punctuate the structure of the book: cholera pandemics from the 1830s to the late nineteenth century, bubonic plague at the turn of the twentieth century, and finally tuberculosis until the mid-twentieth century.

大学と地域
Shattock, Michael / Horvath, Aniko, Universities and Regions: The Impact of Locality and Region on University Governance and Strategies. (Bloomsbury Higher Education Research) 192 pp. 2023:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <696-704>
ISBN 978-1-350-33758-9 hard ¥21,879.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This book explores the impact of localities and regions on universities and shows how the diversity of the higher education landscape is critically affected by the geophysical character of regions and their differentiated economies and cultures; regional inequalities bear heavily on universities' strategy-making. A study of the interrelationship between higher and further education argues that from a regional perspective a change to a tertiary education system in England (following Wales) would create the conditions for better local and regional coordination. Universities make a significant contribution to 'levelling up' through technology transfer and the creation of innovation hubs but the contribution of locally or regionally based students who on graduation return to disadvantaged communities rather than seek employment elsewhere should be recognised also as a longer term step to redressing regional inequality. The book argues strongly that the time has come to decentralise the governance of a re-aligned tertiary system to regions and identifies the move to create metro mayors and combined authorities as providing the appropriate vehicle to release new initiative from regional sources. It cites the success of decentralisation to Scotland and Wales as offering relevant models for scrutiny. The authors draw on 12 UK widely differentiated university case studies, a survey of further education and a study of three continental European comparators (Germany, Ireland and Norway) to develop the argument.

エネルギー・コミュニティとスマートシティ・ハンドブック
Sokolowski, Maciej M. / Visvizi, Anna (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Communities and Smart Cities. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 336 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-516>
ISBN 978-1-03-224787-8 hard ¥49,835.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00 *

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities. Evidencing the emergence of new imperatives at the intersection of sustainability, resilience, innovation, and legal issues, energy communities embody the thrust of the user-centred digital transformation our societies are subjected to today. By bridging the energy communities' debate with smart cities research, this Handbook positions itself at the heart of the conversation on energy sustainability, climate action, and 'just transition'. Drawing on contributions from across the globe, this book offers both a birds-eye and a detailed inter- and multidisciplinary insight into the emergence of energy communities and their evolution in the smart city context. Technological and regulatory aspects of this transition are explored from a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives. Case studies evidencing developments in the Global South and the Global North embellish the conversation. Questions of climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, emissions' reduction, and corresponding policy frameworks are discussed. Dedicated to all those interested in climate action, energy transition, sustainable development, and smart cities, this Handbook will be of interest to policymakers, lawyers, energy and urban experts, researchers, and students.

Couch, Rob, Tackling Environmental Health Inequalities in a South African City?: Rediscovering Regulation, Local Government and its Environmental Health Practitioners. (Routledge Focus on Environmental Health) 136 pp. 2023:4 (Routledge, UK) <695-584>
ISBN 978-0-367-44468-6 hard ¥10,939.- (税込) GB￡ 45.00

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development. Environmental health remains a considerable public health challenge in the 21st century as Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) try to tackle local environmental health inequalities in the face of historically disadvantaged populations suspicious of their motives and demands that far exceed any resources available.Based on an empirical research project that explores how local government Environmental Health Practitioners regulate environmental health in one of South Africa's largest, fastest growing and most unequal cities, Urbington, this book explores the many influences on their decision making including the limits of the law, organisational controls, the views of EHPs themselves and their relations with businesses, communities, politicians and others.'Tackling Environmental Health Inequalities in a South African City?' argues that if we are to meet the environmental health challenges of the 21st century, it is in our best interests to rediscover this vital local public health workforce. This book is essential reading for students, practitioners and policy makers in environmental health and public health, as well as those interested in urban development and policy, particularly in African cities.

Dasgupta, Shubhagato / Bandyopadhyay, Kaustuv Kanti et al., Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India: Meeting Unmet Needs. 224 pp. 2023:4 (Routledge, UK) <695-586>
ISBN 978-0-367-76835-5 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organizations (CSOs) to tackle India's significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health.The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation, especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour, increasing institutional capacities of municipalities and for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions, organising informal sanitation workers, serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy. Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies, public policy, governance, political science, development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and NGOs working on urban sanitation, urban planning and public policy.

Choplin, Armelle, Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanisation in West Africa. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series) 224 pp. 2023:4 (Wiley, US) <695-1342>
ISBN 978-1-119-81198-5 hard ¥18,486.- (税込) US$ 94.95
ISBN 978-1-119-81200-5 paper ¥6,804.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Cross, Bennett Eason, Long-Distance Nationalism in the Global City: A Cultural History of the Malian Diaspora in Lagos. 228 pp. 2022:7 (Lexington Books, US) <695-1345>
ISBN 978-1-79361-502-2 hard ¥19,470.- (税込) US$ 100.00

Focusing on migration within the global south, Bennett Eason Cross uses the example of the Malian trade diaspora in Lagos to argue that aspects of the original model of the transmigrant were based on labor migrations from global south to global north that are not representative of their south-to-south counterparts. In Long-Distance Nationalism in the Global City: A Cultural History of the Malian Diaspora in Lagos, Nigeria, Cross notes that the cultural and racial differences between migrant communities and their host societies in Europe and the U.S. are often narrower, or even nonexistent, in south-to-south migrations, which shapes different outcomes. As this multi-site case study reveals, however, these differences in outcome can seem counterintuitive, as immigrants in the north typically develop loyalties to both origin and host nations, whereas, among the Malians in Lagos, affinity for the host nation was virtually nonexistent, despite a common regional culture. He complicates thestandard bilateral struggle for belonging between host and origin societies by examining the role of Islam, both as a parallel transnational movement and as a competing localized form. This book analyzes the deep historical structure of each society to explain the Malians' failure to develop the multiple national identities observed in other diasporas.

Fair Shared City: Guidelines for Socially Inclusive and Gender-Responsive Residential Development. 106 pp. 2022:1 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <695-1476>
ISBN 978-92-9269-339-8 paper ¥5,841.- (税込) US$ 30.00

This publication aims to help build cities' capacity in enhancing social inclusion and gender-responsiveness in residential development.The guidelines were prepared in collaboration with Tbilisi City Hall, Georgia. They are intended for use by urban planners, architects, and others interested in residential development in Tbilisi. It is hoped they will also be a useful resource for urban development in other contexts.

Fair Shared Green and Recreational Spaces: Guidelines for Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Design: Tbilisi Municipality. 68 pp. 2021:12 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <695-1477>
ISBN 978-92-9269-313-8 paper ¥5,062.- (税込) US$ 26.00

These guidelines recommend development features and design specifications for inclusive green space provision in Tbilisi, Georgia.This publication aims to inform the sustainable development of Tbilisi to give residents a better quality of life while protecting their heritage and preserving the green landscape. The guidelines identify priorities for improvements and for ensuring that limited resources are targeted at the areas of most need. They were developed jointly by the Asian Development Bank and the Municipal Department of Environmental Protection of Tbilisi City Hall.

Inclusive Cities: Urban Area Guidelines. 140 pp. 2022:6 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <695-1478>
ISBN 978-92-9269-316-9 paper ¥6,619.- (税込) US$ 34.00

The guidelines provide universal design solutions, accessibility standards, and case studies on inclusive urban development that accommodate the needs of the marginalized, especially persons with disabilities and the elderly.The guidelines aim to support designers and decision-makers responsible for new infrastructure developments in Georgia to ensure they contribute toward the creation of inclusive and livable cities. These are relevant for replication across the wider Central and West Asia region and other ADB developing member countries.

Baran, Stephanie M., Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City. 234 pp. 2022:1 (Lexington Books, US) <695-1479>
ISBN 978-1-79360-853-6 hard ¥19,470.- (税込) US$ 100.00

In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistance the United States government often creates more problems than it solves. These institutions are not in the business of creating a pathway for people to escape poverty, often compounding that poverty instead. Through a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the author shows how people navigate situations of poverty through interviews with recipients and organizations as well as those working at a local community pantry. Consequently, research uncovered how local food organizations with connections to the Milwaukee Chapter of the Black Panther Party hide their more radical roots to protect food donations from white donors, in essence protecting white fragility. People are far closer to experiencing poverty than they realize, as shown by the Government Shutdown of 2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and typically have incomplete and inaccurate ideas of poverty as well as how people can experience upward mobility. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity reveals this gap through a focus on how all these factors show up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Barnett, Jonathan, Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies. 176 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-1480>
ISBN 978-1-03-246994-2 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-246996-6 paper ¥7,775.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept to reality. When implementation strategies are made an integral part of urban design, the result becomes more detailed, more situational, and much more likely to be related to the natural landscape and the character already present in the community. The strategies described in this book range from neighborhoods to downtown business districts, and from designs for whole suburbs and cities to designs at the scale of the region and megaregion. They deal with every-day situations, although some of the issues can be complicated. This book will interest community leaders, urban design professionals, and the students, instructors, and practitioners of urban design and city planning.

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Caves, Roger, Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes. 5th ed. 776 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <695-1482>
ISBN 978-0-367-47860-5 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-367-47862-9 paper ¥13,853.- (税込) GB￡ 56.99

Extensively revised and updated, Planning in the USA, 5th edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning.Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached. The new edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government, and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. New material includes discussions of:* education and equity in planning;* the City Beautiful Movement; * Daniel Burnham's Plan for Chicago;* Segregation;* Knick v. Township of Scott;* reforming single-family zoning, and regulatory challenges in zoning and land use;* Daniel Parolek's "Missing Middle Housing';* climate change, mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency* the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan;* sharing programs for cars, bicycles and scooters; * hybrid electric and autonomous vehicles;* Vision Zero;* COVID-19 relief for housing;* Innovation Districts, Promise Zones, and Opportunity Zones;* the sharing, gig, and creative economies;* scenic views and vistas, monuments, statues and remembering the past;* healthy cities, Health Impact Assessment, and active living;This detailed account of urbanization in the United States reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA, 5th edition is an essential book for students of urban planning, urban politics, environmental geography, and environment politics. It will be a valuable resource for planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems.

Cruces, Francisco, Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life. (Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life) 216 pp. 2022:8 (Lexington Books, US) <695-1486>
ISBN 978-1-79363-321-7 hard ¥19,470.- (税込) US$ 100.00

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents' daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major cities-Madrid, Montevideo, and Mexico City-to reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.

Davidson, Mark, Justice and Cities: Metro Morals. 33 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-1489>
ISBN 978-0-367-48616-7 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-367-48618-1 paper ¥8,019.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.Since philosophers like Socrates debated in the ancient agora, cities have prompted arguments about the best ways to live together. Cities have also produced some of the most vexing moral problems, including the critical question of what obligations we have to people we neither know nor affiliate with. The first part of this book outlines the most well-developed answers to these questions: the justice theories of Utilitarianism, Libertarianism, Liberalism, Marxism, Communitarianism, Conservativism, and recent "post" critiques. Within each theory, we find a set of geographical propensities that shape the ways purveyors of the theories see the city and its moral problems. The central thesis of the book is therefore that competing moral theories have distinct geographical concerns and perspectives, and that these propensities often condition how the city and its injustices are understood. The second part of the book features three studies of contemporary urban problems - gentrification, segregation, and (un)affordability - to demonstrate how predominant justice theories generate distinctive moral and geographical interpretations. This book therefore serves as an urbanist's guide to justice theory, written for undergraduates and postgraduates studying human geography, urban and municipal planning, urban theory and urban politics, sociology, and politics and government.

Fulkerson, Gregory M., Community in Urban-Rural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development. (Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics) 194 pp. 2022:10 (Lexington Books, US) <695-1490>
ISBN 978-1-66691-753-6 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban-rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban-rural systems, Fulkerson walks through the central dynamics of environmental demography, political economy, culture, social interaction, the built environment, and community connections. His focus on urban-rural systems ensures that communities are understood as nodes within a network, overcoming the tendency to view them as self-contained. Each chapter in Community in Urban-Rural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development offers a blend of classical and contemporary theories and conclude with relevant planning considerations. An additional chapter on community development provides strategies for translating planning considerations into action. The conclusion offers insights into long-term principles of community sustainability and justice.

Hague, Cliff / Harridge, Clive / Julyan, B. et al. (eds.), Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation, and the Commonwealth: The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future. 232 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-1491>
ISBN 978-1-03-241401-0 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-241402-7 paper ¥8,748.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in the world's towns and cities, almost 50 percent of them in the 56 Commonwealth countries. To a significant extent, the future of the planet hangs on how cities and human settlements are managed. It is in our cities that the emissions creating climate catastrophe are stoked, and where change can - and must - make a difference at scale. Food security, water, basic services, migration, shelter, jobs, environment: sustainable urbanisation is about changing direction to strive for a fairer and less environmentally damaging future.This well-illustrated book by authors from around the globe tells how the Commonwealth Association of Planners across five decades has campaigned to make a difference. It also looks ahead, scoping the urgent, practical action that is now required.

Hassen-Dakhli, Ines, Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation. (Routledge Advances in Urban History) 184 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <695-1492>
ISBN 978-1-03-218855-3 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Medium-Sized cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban development outside of select global cities including Paris, Tokyo, and London, and instead focuses on medium-sized cities in the context of a globalising world.Combining the author's expertise with extensive research, this book fills a gap in the scholarly debate on globalisation and urban development, with chapters of the book giving detailed insight on urban governance and economy, local identity, and urban representation. Through a range of visual sources including maps, tables, and graphs, the book is applicable and accessible, and offers a specialised analysis of medium-sized cities through assessing urban regeneration policies as well as promotional activities and their role in promoting positive change in an era of great inter-urban competition.This book contains valuable historical insights and is excellent specialised material for scholars and postgraduate students in the disciplines of Urban History, Urban Studies, and Geography, as well as being a significant source for Professionals working in urban planning and place promotion

Ratcliffe, John / Stubbs, Michael, Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future: A Built Environment Bricolage. 304 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <695-1495>
ISBN 978-1-03-241088-3 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-241089-0 paper ¥8,505.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades. Four major themes form the basis of the volume: 1. Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place. 2. Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership. 3. Innovation, Reform and Exemplars. 4. Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations. Within these structural themes are a diverse range of "Discourses" addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us, together with a proposed methodology (strategic foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today - whether by organisations, individuals, cities or communities - to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reading for students, practitioners, agencies and corporations across the built environment, especially in the fields of urban planning, real estate development, architecture, civil engineering and construction.

Sharma, Utpal / Parthasarathy, R. / Aparna (eds.), Future is Urban: Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation: Proceedings of the International Conference on FUTURE IS URBAN: Livability, Resilience and Resource Conservation (ICFU 2021), December 16-18, 2021. 712 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <695-1496>
ISBN 978-1-03-237892-3 paper ¥8,991.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Cities have played an important role in our lives since the dawn of civilization. However, cities are slowly becoming overwhelmed and therefore intervention is desirable towards green, blue and egalitarian nature. Even with current urban issues, we must rise to the occasion as professionals to create cities that are social, cities that take care of the environment, and cities that are digital. Increased citizen participation is indispensable in this process. The 'International Conference on Future is Urban (IFCU' 21) Dec 16-18, 2021, Ahmedabad, India', takes into account Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation for planning Future and cities in future.

Sutton, Sharon Egretta, Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons: Pursuing Democracy's Promise through Place-Based Activism. (Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies) 336 pp. 2023:6 (Fordham U. Pr., US) <695-1498>
ISBN 978-1-5315-0281-2 hard ¥23,364.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5315-0282-9 paper ¥5,831.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continuously grows the next generation of compassionate leaders This essential, timely book meets us at our current moment of crisis to offer hope that American democracy's stalled trajectory toward its founding creed to embrace all, and not just some, can indeed be reinvigorated. Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons is about low-income youth of color working within justice-oriented, community-based organizations to improve the social and spatial conditions in their surroundings. It draws from hundreds of pages of data, some collected over a decade ago by graduate research assistants at three universities and some collected recently by a graduate research assistant at a fourth university, to present verbatim quotes from interviews with constituents of three youth-serving organizations. The book posits that the disinvested neighborhoods where youth experience abandonment and marginality in fact can serve as a call to action, given appropriate organizational support. Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons envisions a place-based critical pedagogy that can prepare young people with the practical skills and deep values to engage with today's economic, racial, and ecological crises. It offers a welcome antidote to a neoliberal education system that has not only veered away from its public mandate to advance democratic citizenship but that has also reinforced today's insidious economic inequality, rendering illusive the idea that rich and poor can work together toward a common good. Between these pages resonate a passionate call for an approach to cultivating citizens who have the critical skills to challenge injustice, the courage to hold the rich and powerful accountable, and the empathy to advance, not just their own self-interest, but the health and well-being of their communities and the planet. The author proposes that such citizens develop by exercising collective agency in "the commons," a political and psychic space whose values are mapped out in physical space. Through the expert use of an architect's lens, this groundbreaking book argues that the three-dimensional concreteness of the nation's disinvested neighborhoods provides a literal stage where disenfranchised youth can experiment with collective life, become more discerning about the forces that have shaped their communities, and practice working toward just and inclusive futures. Merging Paolo Freire's seminal theory of critical pedagogy with Grace Lee Boggs's belief that hands-on community-building can disrupt the evermore destructive forces of neoliberal capitalism, Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons refines an aspirational framework for a pathway forward through a careful analysis of three exemplar organizations. it offers rich, unique portraits of young people transforming their communities in Southwest Detroit, Wai'anae, and Harlem, respectively illustrating place-based activism through theatre, organic farming, and critical inquiry. Here activism is framed as the hands-on engagement of youth in addressing inequities in the commons of their neighborhoods through small but persistent interventions, which also help them learn the language of solidarity and collectivity that a sustainable democracy needs. A Pedagogy of Hope is a must-read for our times and for our future.

Wesselman, Daan, Reflecting on the City Through Literature: Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 208 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-1499>
ISBN 978-0-367-46623-7 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city - depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting - but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city. How can spatial difference be conceived in cities that are changing beyond the form of the classical modern metropolis of the early 20th century? How can one think of the relation between individual urban subjects and their urban environment, when neither spaces nor discourses of the city provide them with an answer to the question where they might "belong"? How does the human body interact with its urban surroundings, and how should technological mediations be thought of? This book approaches these questions through analysing literary texts, focusing on concepts like heterotopia, non-place and the posthuman. This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary scholars and students of the city, particularly in the fields of Urban Studies, Literary Studies, Geography, and Architecture.

Bresson, Sabrina (dir.), Les deconvenues de la participation citoyenne: pratiques urbaines, pouvoirs et legitimites. (Perspectives. Perspectives Villes et territoires) 2022:11 (Pr. U. Francois-Rabelais, FR) <695-1013>
ISBN 978-2-86906-891-9 paper ¥5,491.- (税込) EUR 26.00

Das, Ashok, Informal Services in Asian Cities: Lessons for Urban Planning and Management from the COVID-19 Pandemic. 416 pp. 2022:9 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <695-1174>
ISBN 978-92-9269-716-7 paper ¥9,150.- (税込) US$ 47.00 *

This book explores urban informality in Asian cities and looks how the informal sector's contribution to inclusive and sustainable growth can be enhanced.While supporting the livelihoods of most of the developing world's urban poor, the informal sector also deprives them of basic services and social protection. Rendered vulnerable to socioeconomic threats, people in the urban informal sector have suffered disproportionately during the COVID-19 pandemic and face a highly uncertain future. The book explores informality's forms and constraints in Asian cities. It describes the pandemic's effects on the informal sector and how leveraging informal services can enable urban resilience. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, the book illustrates the transformative potential of urban planning and governance that addresses informality. It also details measures that could boost the informal sector's inclusive and sustainable growth potential.

Karunaratne, Gihan (ed.), Informal Settlements of the Global South. (Architectural Borders and Territories) 328 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-1180>
ISBN 978-1-03-204307-4 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested 'informal' enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility, and placemaking. Together, the 15 essays question the validity of the conventional hegemonic divisions of Global North vs. Global South and 'formal' vs. 'informal', in terms of geographic presence, transborder performances, and the ideological inter-dependence of Northern and Southern spaces, spatial practices and the uniformity of authoritative enforcements. The book, whose authors themselves come from all over the world, uses 'Global South' as a methodological apparatus to ask the 'Southern' question of settling and unsettling across the globe. Crucially, the studies reveal the sentiments, resourcefulness and the agency of those positioned by the powerful within the dichotomies of formal/informal, legitimate/ illegal, privileged/marginalized; etc., who are traditionally identified within the dominant development discourse as mere numbers or designated by intervening institutions as helpless recipients. By focusing on hitherto invisible events and untold stories of adaptation, negotiation and contestation by people and their communities, this volume of essays takes the ongoing North-South debate in new directions and opens up to the reader's fresh areas of inquiry. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, planning, politics and sociology, as well as built environment professionals.

Jain, Daksh, Culture, Spaces, and People: Urban Dynamics in Contemporary India. (Urban Futures) 224 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-1280>
ISBN 978-1-03-201969-7 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalization, transitioning economic patterns, National Urban policies in changing their urban landscape. The volume argues how culture is an important determinant of the emergent urban patterns. It decodes and determines the human centered inter-linkages such as social, cultural, economic, and political and their reactions in the transformations in urban morphology to understand the spatial perspective and visualization of new emerging cultural phenomena. The book reflects on the contemporary global forces and currently operational national urban policies that have enforced new dynamics of consumption, lifestyles, and institutions. Further, it also examines the ways in which these forces come together to create new hybrid cultures which manifest in spatial practices.With detailed case studies of different cities, this book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of urban planning, cultural studies, urban sociology, urban geography, history, urban design, urban conservation, and policy studies. It will also be useful for professionals working in the field of smart cities in India and abroad, planning authorities, urban scientists, cultural tourists, artists, local cultural enthusiasts, and those interested in studying the urban conditions of Indian cities.

Qadeer, Mohammad A., Lahore in the 21st Century: The Functioning and Development of a Megacity in the Global South. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 200 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-864>
ISBN 978-1-03-236533-6 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

Analysing the evolution of Lahore's social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan's independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment. It uncovers the internal dynamics and functional order of the city that sustain everyday life, despite its challenges and seemingly disorderly institutions. The book offers a strategic vision for the city's development that emphasizes equitable policies for public utilities and the built environment. In addition, the author proposes a complementary programme for social development and civic ethos.This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students in the fields of urban planning, geography, urban studies and sociology and those interested in the urbanism of the global south, particularly Pakistan.

Badr, Hanan / Samour, Nahed (eds.), Arab Berlin: Dynamics of Transformation. (Urban Studies) 300 S. 2023:9 (Transcript, GW) <694-873>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6263-4 paper ¥8,236.- (税込) EUR 39.00

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research. The kaleidoscopic character of the collection, embracing academic articles, essays, interviews and photos, reflects critical encounters in Berlin. It brings together authors from inter- and multidisciplinary fields and backgrounds and invites the readers into a much-needed conversation on contemporary transformations.

Espitia, Camilo, Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America. 152 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <694-921>
ISBN 978-1-03-246135-9 hard ¥11,908.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several Latin American cities, each with specific challenges, and explores how they have gradually overcome these difficulties through policies, planning and design, and with private/public sector coordination.The cases include: The built environment and social mobility in Bogota, Mexico City and its difficulties with water scarcity, Addressing air quality and environmental justice in Lima, Santiago de Chile's energy consumption and carbon footprint, Buenos Aires and the issue of urban agriculture and food security, Connectivity as a social transformation device in Medellin.The book goes beyond simply identify the challenges and explains some of the practical day-to-day planning efforts, including interviews with staff from those municipalities, illustrations, and strategies that have been successful. As a result, this book will be helpful to planners in the region, as well as outside Latin America, because it demonstrates how fruitful results can be achieved in areas typically perceived as underdevelopedAlthough based on research and data, this book offers a positive perspective on the possibilities rather than the limitations, hoping to inspire new generations of planners to pursue the career in the search of social change.

Mukim, Megha / Roberts, Mark (eds.), Thriving: Making Cities Green, Resilient and Inclusive in a Changing Climate. 250 pp. 2023:2 (World Bank, US) <694-963>
ISBN 978-1-4648-1935-3 paper ¥8,657.- (税込) US$ 49.50 *

Globally, 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions emanate from cities. Cities are also experiencing an expanding variety and frequency of climate change related stresses. This report provides policymakers with a compass for designing tailored policies that can help cities take effective action to mitigate and adapt to climate change.