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

Davis, Juliet, Care and the City: Ethics of Urbanism. 224 pp. 2022:3 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <666-678>
ISBN 978-1-5292-0121-5 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

In this important contribution to urban studies, Juliet Davis makes the case for a more ethical and humane approach to city development and management. With a range of illustrative case studies, the book challenges the conventional and neoliberal thinking of urban planners and academics, and explores new ways to correct problems of inequality and exclusion. It shows how a philosophy of caring can improve both city environments and communities. This is an original and powerful theory of urban care that can promote the wellbeing of our cities' many inhabitants.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali, Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 274 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-730>
ISBN 978-981-16-4887-8 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace. 'Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace' is the first book that attempts to put these three critical areas together. This novelty approaches the subject matter by delving into evaluating what works, what does not work, and what should be done to achieve healthy cities. We believe this book will be beneficial to a wide range of stakeholders, particularly policymakers, planners, and developers, who continuously shape and reshape the structure and environments of our cities and communities. Unfortunately, in most cases, the healthiness of the cities may not be of their immediate concern. Nevertheless, it is the concern of the end-users, citizens, or simply those who live and work in cities and communities worldwide. To safeguard peace in cities, one has to consider sustaining urban health; and that is the main aim of this book. The ongoing pandemic gives us an excellent reason to study cities' health. During such a disruptive time, we detect many flaws in cities and communities around the world. We primarily identify the negative impacts on sustainability and peace in cities. In order to sustain a healthy city, this book evaluates six sustainability dimensions of physical, environmental, economic, social, institutional, and technical. It then utilizes eight primary dimensions of positive peace, evaluating critical areas for future considerations in urbanism. These considerations include making cities smarter, more resilient, and more sustainable. The book's ultimate goal is to highlight how we should progress to maintain and sustain urban health. As a continuation to 'The City in Need,', this book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace. Furthermore, by reflecting on the ongoing pandemic crisis, metaphorically labelled as 'The Day the World Stopped,', we delve into some key areas beyond the usual planning and policy guidelines. Lastly, the book intends to highlight what has not been studied before, i.e., the relationship between urban health, sustainability, and peace.

Amati, Marco, The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning. 200 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2333>
ISBN 978-981-16-3976-0 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book traces how naturalism-the idea of a common theory uniting natural social systems-has contributed to major shifts in urban planning. Beginning in the 17th century, when the human body began to emerge as an inspiration for urban planning, the book examines the work of medical analyses of city life. Responding to the 19th century industrial revolution and 20th century modernism, the Second World War and mass motorisation, Dr Marco Amati shows how vitalism, eugenics, evolutionary theories and medical treatments were applied to understand cities and propose new urban forms. While critically evaluating the uses of naturalism, Amati also observes a renewed interest in the application of sciences to analyse city life, arguing that this is essential to help resolve challenges of human-induced climate change.

Amezcua, Mike, Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 320 pp. 2022:2 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-2334>
ISBN 978-0-226-81582-4 hard ¥10,564.- (税込) US$ 49.00 *

Winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's First Book Award: an exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance. Though Chicago is often popularly defined by its Polish, Black, and Irish populations, Cook County is home to the third-largest Mexican-American population in the United States. The story of Mexican immigration and integration into the city is one of complex political struggles, deeply entwined with issues of housing and neighborhood control. In Making Mexican Chicago, Mike Amezcua explores how the Windy City became a Latinx metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, working-class Chicago neighborhoods like Pilsen and Little Village became sites of upheaval and renewal as Mexican Americans attempted to build new communities in the face of white resistance that cast them as perpetual aliens. Amezcua charts the diverse strategies used by Mexican Chicagoans to fight the forces of segregation, economic predation, and gentrification, focusing on how unlikely combinations of social conservatism and real estate market savvy paved new paths for Latinx assimilation. Making Mexican Chicago offers a powerful multiracial history of Chicago that sheds new light on the origins and endurance of urban inequality.

Christmann, Gabriela B. / Knoblauch, Hubert et al. (eds.), Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies. (The Refiguration of Space) 352 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-2336>
ISBN 978-0-367-41997-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licenseThrough a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualizing communication not only in terms of the use of language and texts, but as involving any kind of objectification, such as technologies, bodies and non-verbal signs, it considers the roles of both direct and mediatized (or digitized) communication. An examination of the conceptualization of the communicative (re-)construction of spaces and the means by which this change might be empirically investigated, this book demonstrates the fruitfulness of the notion of refiguration as a means by which to understand the transformation of contemporary societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, and geographers with interests in social construction and urban space.

Copus, Colin / Kerley, Richard / Jones, Alistair (eds.), A Modern Guide to Local and Regional Politics. (Elgar Modern Guides) 352 pp. 2022:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-2337>
ISBN 978-1-83910-344-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Utilising international material to explore the roles, functions, tasks, responsibilities, powers and actions of intra-state politicians and the institutions to which they are elected, this insightful book examines how local and regional authorities are pivotal in the democratic and governing arrangements of different countries.Expert contributors examine how regional and local bodies have authority over public services, local spending, land use and local regulation, while operating within the constraints and structures of their own national settings. The Modern Guide also considers the responsibility of local and regional powers in the promotion of community action and cohesion. Taking a comparative approach, country-specific chapters present detailed analyses of the similarities and differences between the shape and purpose of institutions which operate within the state and how they interact with each other and the national institutions of government.Exploring the concepts and principles behind power structures within governmental systems, this book will be a key resource for academics and students of public policy, regulation and governance, and public administration and management. Its presentation of models of the formation of government in an international context will also be beneficial for policy-makers and practitioners in these fields.

Davies, Jonathan S. / Blanco, Ismael / Bua, A. et al., New Developments in Urban Governance: Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity. 224 pp. 2022:1 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <666-2338>
ISBN 978-1-5292-0582-4 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montreal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations. An international collaborative from across the social sciences, the book discusses ways that citizens, activists and local states collaborate and come into conflict in attempting to build just cities. It examines the development of egalitarian collaborative governance strategies, provides innovative ideas and tools to extend emancipatory governance practices and shows hopeful possibilities for cities beyond austerity and neoliberalism.

Delgado, Melvin, "They Are Rioting in Sanctuary Cities!": Countering the Emerging Anti-Sanctuary Movement. 300 pp. 2021:8 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <666-2341>
ISBN 978-1-5381-4715-3 hard ¥31,046.- (税込) US$ 144.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-4716-0 paper ¥10,995.- (税込) US$ 51.00 *

While the concept of cities and places of refuge, or sanctuary cities, is as ancient as history itself, the past few years has given rapid rise to a new, related phenomenon in the U.S.: the anti-sanctuary city movement. As of 2018, over 500 U.S. municipalities and several states have adopted anti-sanctuary city policies. How do we explain the rapid rise of this movement? This book examines the social, political, and racial underpinnings of this radical new movement, and what members of targeted communities can do to counteract its corrosive effects. This book accomplishes five goals:Conceptually and descriptively gives form to the anti-sanctuary movement.Identifies trends and reasons for successes and failures of this movement.Draws lessons for social justice advocates in countering this movement.Presents a series of cities illustrating how and why this movement has unfolded in certain geographical areas.Presents recommendations for anticipating the evolution of this movement and countering its destructive impacts in communities where the anti-sanctuary is taking root.

Fabricius, Michael, Baustelle Deutschland: Pannenflughaefen, Regulierungswahn und fehlende Wohnungen - Der Report. (C. H. Beck Paperback 6393) 240 S. 2021:3 (Beck, GW) <666-2342>
ISBN 978-3-406-75636-8 paper ¥3,518.- (税込) EUR 14.95

Der Wohnungsbau stockt, es dauert oft Jahrzehnte, bis Strassen, Schienenstrecken, Bahnhoefe und Flughaefen fertiggestellt werden ? und die Kosten fuer den Steuerzahler steigen dabei ins Unermessliche. Was laeuft schief auf der Baustelle Deutschland? Deutschlands meistverhasster Neubau ist endlich fertig: der Hauptstadtflughafen BER. Fast 15 Jahre Planungsfehler, Selbstueberschaetzung, Chaos und Technikversagen liegen hinter uns. Doch nicht nur beim BER oder anderen desastroesen Grossprojekten wie der Elbphilharmonie und Stuttgart 21 ? quer durch die Republik geht es heute am Bau nicht mehr voran: vom Einfamilienhaus ueber den oeffentlichen Wohnungsbau bis zur Bundesautobahn und Schienenstrecke. Michael Fabricius zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und auf der Grundlage investigativer Recherchen, wie sich Deutschland selbst blockiert: in einer Mischung aus Politikversagen, starrem Behoerdendenken, ausuferndem Regulierungswahn und der Fortschrittsskepsis sogenannter Nimby-Buerger (≪Not in my backyard≫). Das Ergebnis ist eine Baubremse, die den Standort Deutschland massiv gefaehrdet. Deshalb verharrt Fabricius nicht bei der Problemdiagnose, sondern bietet auch eine Reihe von Loesungsvorschlaegen. Er plaediert dafuer, das Planungsrecht zu vereinfachen, Zustaendigkeiten zu buendeln, Vorschlaege von Experten und erfahrenen Kommunalpolitikern ernst zu nehmen und neue, effizientere Planungsmodelle zwischen Privatunternehmen und oeffentlicher Hand zu entwickeln. Noch zehrt Deutschland von der Infrastruktur aus der Gruenderzeit. Doch wie dieser ultimative Report zeigt, waere es fatal, wenn wir uns weiter darauf verlassen wuerden.

Ferreri, Mara, The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London. (Cities and Cultures) 194 pp. 2021:3 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-2343>
ISBN 978-94-6298-491-2 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.

Forester, John F. (ed.), How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories. 320 pp. 2021:10 (New Village Pr., US) <666-2344>
ISBN 978-1-61332-143-0 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-61332-142-3 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies. How Spaces Become Places tells stories of place makers who respond to daunting challenges of affordable housing, racial violence, and immigration, as well as community building, arts development, safe streets, and coalition-building. The book's thirteen contributors share their personal experiences tackling complex and contentious situations in cities ranging from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and from Paris to Detroit. These activists and architects, artists and planners, mediators and gardeners transform ordinary spaces into extraordinary places. These place makers recount working alongside initially suspicious residents to reclaim and enrich the communities in which they live. Readers will learn how place makers listen and learn, diagnose local problems, convene stakeholders, build trust, and invent solutions together. They will find instructive examples of work they can do within their own communities. In the aftermath of the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, the editor argues, these accessible practice stories are more important than ever.

Gkartzios, Menelaos / Gallent, Nick / Scott, Mark, Rural Places and Planning: Stories from the Global Countryside. 176 pp. 2022:3 (Policy Pr., UK) <666-2345>
ISBN 978-1-4473-5637-0 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

Rural Places and Planning provides a compact analysis for students and early-career practitioners of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader ideas and practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It looks across twelve international cases, examining the values that guide the pursuit of the 'good countryside'. The book presents rural planning - rooted in imagination and reflecting key values - as being embedded in the life of particular places, dealing with critical challenges across housing, services, economy, natural systems, climate action and community wellbeing in ways that are integrated and recognise broader place-making needs. It introduces the breadth of the discipline, presenting examples of what planning means and what it can achieve in different rural places.

Kelly, Ashley Scott / Lu, Xiaoxuan, Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative. 249 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-2346>
ISBN 978-981-16-4066-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-981-16-4069-8 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos-China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent "firsts" in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture's spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.

Kuppinger, Petra (ed.), Emergent Spaces: Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 255 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2347>
ISBN 978-3-030-84378-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change.

Li, Weifeng / Hu, Lingqian / Cao, Jason (eds.), Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China. Volume I: Urban and Rural Planning. (GeoJournal Library 129) 276 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-2348>
ISBN 978-3-030-83855-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Sustainable urban and rural planning should be "people-centered" and concerned about urban-rural coordination. The authors argue that successful urban and rural development in China should promote social equity, culture diversity, economic prosperity and sustainable built form. This book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to the faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban and regional planning, rural planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, climate change and ecological planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. This book dealing with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China is part of a 2 volume set. Volume II discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility.

Li, Weifeng / Hu, Lingqian / Cao, Jason (eds.), Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China. Volume II: Urban Design and Mobility. (GeoJournal Library 130) 332 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-2349>
ISBN 978-3-030-83859-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be "people-centered" and concerned about "place-making" in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Successful urban design and placemaking should adopt interdisciplinary approaches to planning and designing "space" and "place". A core vision is the delivery of urban spaces that can cater to the needs of an increasingly diverse crowd of urban dwellers calling cities home. The book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning and design approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to those faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban design, transport planning, mobility analysis and planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. This book discussing human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility is part of a 2 volume set. Volume I deals with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China.

Liu, Yansui, Urban-Rural Transformation Geography. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 375 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-2350>
ISBN 978-981-16-4834-2 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation. Focusing on the systematic diagnosis of new-type urbanization, urban-rural land use, industrial structure transformation and public facilities allocation, this book explores the long-term mechanism, innovative model, and scientific way of urban-rural land optimal allocation and spatial reconstruction and develops urban-rural transformation geography. In terms of the contents, the book constructs the theory and method system of urban-rural transformation geography, analyzes the process, pattern, mechanism, and response of urban-rural transformation, reveals the evolution characteristics, types, and regional differences of urban-rural regional system, and finally puts forward the optimal decision-making of urban-rural transformation.This book not only provides references for graduate and researchers in geography, regional development, urban and rural planning, resource science, environmental science, human-earth system science, sustainability science, and other related fields but also guides the decision-making of planners and government officials.

Lu, Weisheng / Anumba, Chimay J. (eds.), Research Companion to Building Information Modeling. (Elgar Companions to the Built Environment) 752 pp. 2022:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-2351>
ISBN 978-1-83910-551-7 hard ¥76,923.- (税込) GB￡ 270.00 *

Offering critical insights to the state-of-the-art in Building Information Modeling (BIM) research and development, this book outlines the prospects and challenges for the field in this era of digital revolution. Analysing the contributions of BIM across the construction industry, it provides a comprehensive survey of global BIM practices. Accessible and thorough, the chapters explore the theory behind and facilitators of BIM, covering knowledge management around BIM, the development of ontologies and language in the area, holistic implementations, and BIM ecosystems. The book further discusses the technological developments of BIM, including scan-to-BIM, 3D digital reconstruction and AI and robotics techniques. Critical analysis of BIM-enabled construction and engineering management innovations are also examined, highlighting prospects and challenges in the area.This will be a critical read for engineering, construction management and architecture students looking for a comprehensive study of BIM. It will also be beneficial to practitioners working in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner & Operation (AECOO) industry wanting a better understanding of the benefits and future developments of BIM.

Mohan, Anjali Karol / Pellissery, Sony et al. (eds.), Theorising Urban Development From the Global South. 287 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2353>
ISBN 978-3-030-82474-7 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers 'fragments' of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters derive from and speak to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South. They focus on presenting the alternative realities of Southern cities as critical analytical lenses that can build up to the theorisation of the Southern urban with a potential to (re)understand the contemporary urban world. The contributions explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods. In doing so, the volume breaks apart the linear modernity that urban theory from the North relies on. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Neuman, Michael, Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies. 248 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-2354>
ISBN 978-0-367-34026-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-34024-7 paper ¥9,398.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

The central role of infrastructure to cities, and in particular their sustainability, is essential for proper planning and design since most energy and materials are themselves consumed by or through infrastructures. Moreover, infrastructures of all types affect matters of economic and social equity, due to access that they provide or prevent. Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies shows how fundamental planning, design, finance, and governance principles can be adapted for sustainable infrastructure to provide solutions to make cities significantly more sustainable. By providing a contemporary overview on infrastructure, cities, planning, economies, and sustainability, the book addresses how to plan, design, finance, and manage infrastructure in ways that reduce consumption and harmful impacts while maintaining and improving life quality. It considers the interrelationships between the economic, political, societal, and institutional frameworks, providing an integrative approach including livability and sustainability, principles and practice, and planning and design. It further translates these approaches that professionals, policymakers, and leaders can use. This approach gives the book wide appeal for students, researchers, and practitioners hoping to build a more sustainable world.

Rae, Alasdair / Wong, Cecilia (eds.), Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management. 192 pp. 2021:10 (Sage, UK) <666-2355>
ISBN 978-1-5264-9700-0 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5264-9699-7 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

This book showcases the different ways in which contemporary forms of data analysis are being used in urban planning and management. It highlights the emerging possibilities that city-regional governance, technology and data have for better planning and urban management - and discusses how you can apply them to your research. Including perspectives from across the globe, it's packed with examples of good practice and helps to demystify the process of using big and open data. Learn about different kinds of emergent data sources and how they are processed, visualised and presented.Understand how spatial analysis and GIS are used in city planning.See examples of how contemporary data analytics methods are being applied in a variety of contexts, such as 'smart' city management and megacities. Aimed at upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying spatial analysis and planning, this timely text is the perfect companion to enable you to apply data analytics approaches in your research.

Rey, Emmanuel / Laprise, Martine / Lufkin, Sophie, Neighbourhoods in Transition: Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas. (The Urban Book Series) 248 pp. 2021:9 (Springer, GW) <666-2356>
ISBN 978-3-030-82207-1 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool. Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with an overview of historic urban development and strategic areas in the hearts of towns to be developed. It then defines several key issues related to the topic, including urban brownfields, regeneration projects, and sustainability issues related to neighbourhood development. The second part of this book is focused on support tools, explaining the challenges faced, the steps involved in a regeneration process, and offering an operational monitoring tool. It applies the unique tool to case studies in three selected neighbourhoods and the outcomesof one case study are also presented and discussed, highlighting its benefits.The audience for this book will be both professional and academic. It will support researchers as an up-to-date reference book on urban brownfield regeneration projects, and also the work of architects, urban designers, urban planners and engineers involved in sustainability transitions of the built environment.

Rius-Ulldemolins, Joaquim et al. (eds.), The Hidden Side of the Creative City: Culture Instrumentalization, Political Control and Social Reproduction in Valencia. (Sociology of the Arts) 200 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2357>
ISBN 978-3-030-81248-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain. It deals critically with a variety of sociological questions related to cultural production in the city, including geographical segregation as culturally defined in the city; misogyny and the peripheral role of women in traditional cultural events, xenophobia; and nationalism/regionalism.As such, the book will be useful to students and scholars of sociology of the arts, cultural policy, and museum management, and urban sociology.

Rouse, David / Piro, Rocky, The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century. (APA Planning Essentials) 296 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-2358>
ISBN 978-0-367-90399-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-89755-0 paper ¥9,398.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

The practice of comprehensive planning is changing dramatically in the 21st century to address the pressing need for more sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities. Drawing on the latest research and best practice examples, The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century provides an in-depth resource for planning practitioners, elected officials, citizens, and others seeking to develop effective, impactful, comprehensive plans, grounded in authentic community engagement, as a pathway to sustainability. Based on standards developed by the American Planning Association to provide a national benchmark for sustainable comprehensive planning, this book provides detailed guidance on the substance, process, and implementation of comprehensive plans that address the critical challenges facing communities in the 21st century.

Stenvall, Jari / Laitinen, Ilpo / Yeoman, Ruth et al., Public Values for Cities and City Policy. 264 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2361>
ISBN 978-3-030-80798-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft meaningfulness in life and work. Meaningfulness and public value require new ways of leading and developing city governance. This extends to designing inclusive structures and processes for people to grapple with the meanings and values underpinning public value creation. A public value framework demands that city governance goes beyond ordinary government to considerations of how to involve city residents and workers in creating and maintaining the common good. The common good is determined by an inclusive associational life characterized by deliberative processes and opportunities for social contribution. When acting upon their entitlements to make the city, urban residents and workers - as members of diverse civic, public and private organizations - co-create the meanings that facilitate the collective action necessary to translate values into value. The experience of cooperating for the common good produces meanings that people can adopt into a sense that their lives have significance and purpose. This is particularly relevant to understanding how to motivate just and inclusive sustainability transitions, especially as cities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on cities and urban policy, the main theme of this book is to elaborate on public values for cities and city policies, and to further develop the concept of the meaningful city. This book aims to provide new kinds of tools for city development that can help them co-create resilience against future shocks.

Strohmaier, Alena / Krewani, Angela (eds.), Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space. (Cities and Cultures) 324 pp. 2021:3 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-2362>
ISBN 978-94-6298-909-2 hard ¥35,042.- (税込) GB￡ 123.00 *

A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.

Thomas, Alexander R. / Fulkerson, Gregory M., City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems. (Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics) 490 pp. 2021:6 (Lexington Books, US) <666-2363>
ISBN 978-1-79364-432-9 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *

City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems begins with a simple assumption: every human requires, on average, two-thousand calories per day to stay alive. Tracing the ramifications of this insight leads to the caloric well: the caloric demand at one point in the environment. As population increases, the depth of the caloric well reflects this increased demand and requires a population to go further afield for resources, a condition called urban dependency. City and Country traces the structural ramifications of these dynamics as the population increased from the Paleolithic to today. We can understand urban dependency as the product of the caloric demands a population puts on a given environment, and when those demands outstrip the carry capacity of the environment, a caloric well develops that forces a community to look beyond its immediate area for resources. As the well deepens, the horizon from which resources are gathered is pushed further afield, often resulting in conflict with neighboring groups. Prior to settled villages, increases in population resulted in cultural (technological) innovations that allowed for greater use of existing resources: the broad-spectrum revolution circa 20 thousand years ago, the birth of agricultural villages 11 thousand years ago, and hierarchically organized systems of multiple settlements working together to produce enough food during the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia seven-thousand years ago-the first urban-rural systems. As cities developed, increasing population resulted in an ever-deepening morass of urban dependency that required expansion of urban-rural systems. These urban-rural dynamics today serve as an underlying logic upon which modern capitalism is built. The culmination of two decades of research into the nature of urban-rural dynamics, City and Country argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.

Yapicioglu, Balkiz / Lalenis, Konstantinos (eds.), Boundaries and Restricted Places: The Immured Space. (Elgar Studies in Planning Theory, Policy and Practice) 328 pp. 2022:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-2364>
ISBN 978-1-80088-407-6 hard ¥31,054.- (税込) GB￡ 109.00 *

This innovative book defines the concept of immured spaces across time, space and culture and investigates various categories of restricted places such as divided, segregated and protected spaces. Drawing on examples from across the world, this book analyses not only what separates and divides space, but also the wide variety of impacts that the imposition of new barriers and boundaries or the opening of existing ones has on places, people and surrounding areas. Contributors integrate case studies with theoretical analysis to draw conclusions and advance an analytical framework of immured spaces. The chapters present a point of reference to highlight areas of significance and also to encourage further detailed work in this important area.The book has a strong research dimension and will therefore be of interest to academic communities in planning, cultural heritage, psychology, architecture and urban studies. In addition, the use of case studies to develop a common framework will appeal to practitioners and policy makers.

Silva, Cristian A., The Interstitial Spaces of Urban Sprawl: Geographies of Santiago de Chile's Zwischenstadt. (Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change) 224 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-2275>
ISBN 978-0-367-33471-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-217071-8 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book proposes the idea of interstitial space as a theoretical framework to describe and understand the implications of in-between lands in urban studies and their profound transformative effects in cities and their urban character.The analysis of the interstitial spaces is structured into four themes: the conceptual grounds of interstitial spaces; the nature of interstices; the geographical scale of interstices; and the relationality of interstices. The empirical section of the book introduces seven cases that illustrate the varied nature of interstitiality to finally discuss its implications in the broader field of urban studies. Reflections upon further lines of enquiry and theories of urbanisation, urban sprawl, and cities are highlighted in the conclusion chapter.This is the ideal text for scholars of urban planning, strategic spatial planning, landscape planning, urban design, architecture, and other cognate disciplines as well as advanced students in these fields.

Alizadeh, Hooshmand, Building a traditional Kurdish City: The Urban Morphology of Sanandaj. (Palgrave Pivot) 218 pp. 2021:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2143>
ISBN 978-981-16-3633-2 hard ¥14,120.- (税込) EUR 59.99

This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran. It discusses the nature of Kurdish settlements and the interaction between the social and spatial forces that have conditioned the processes and patterns of city formation and development over time. It identifies distinctive aspects of Kurdish settlements, such as their extroverted connection with the landscape, and the fluent interplay between private and public realms in female experience, providing a foundation for further studies of other Kurdish cities in the region. It will be an excellent resource for students and researchers of urban studies, geography, social science, and Kurdish studies.

Shi, Yunqing, Becoming Citizens in China: State and Individual in Inner City Renewal and Urban Social Movement. (Post-Western Social Sciences and Global Knowledge 4) 258 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-2033>
ISBN 978-90-04-35756-3 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

In Becoming Citizens in China Shi Yunqing describes the two interlinked histories that have made China's urban and economic miracle: the unfolding of inner city renewal and the production of citizen shaped by the collective rights defence action resulted from demolition and removal projects. She reveals a complex problematic tension on State and the fabric of the Individual in Social Transition in China. This book is extremely well-documented and produced with abundant empirical materials. In this approach of the State-Individual relationship, Shi Yunqing convincingly elaborates how citizens have been produced in urban social movements against the background of differences between Chinese and Western development histories. The production of citizens in "Chinese-style" produces insightful "located knowledge" and makes a contribution to a new global sociology and more especially to the Post-Western Sociology. __________ ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????"??-??"???????????????????????????????????????????????????"???"????????????????????????????????????????????

Ying, Wu, Organizational Transformation and Order Reconstruction in "Village-Turned-Communities". (China Perspectives) 352 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-2054>
ISBN 978-1-03-218572-9 hard ¥42,735.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-218573-6 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, a state-led urbanization has evolved into a "city management" in China: A large number of villages were demolished; cultivated land was centralized; and peasants went to live in apartments, which led to the widespread emergence of "village-turned-communities". This title explores the evolving and complex relationship between the urbanization of land and people - two core components of China's urbanization strategy. What role does the government play in resolving conflicts around these two aspects of urbanization? What role can it play in adjudicating them? To answer these questions, the author examines rural migrants' experience in integrating and being integrated into the cities. Through a three-year investigation in Beijing, Shandong, Hubei and Yunnan, the author shows how government policies can either engender or mitigate conflicts, as well as identifies integrated governance as an effective approach to urbanization of both land and people.This title is awarded the top ten Chinese sociology books in 2019. Students and scholars of sociology, politics and public administration will benefit from this book.

De Giosa, Pierpaolo, World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds. (Asian Heritages) 306 pp. 2021:7 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-2071>
ISBN 978-94-6372-502-6 hard ¥39,031.- (税込) GB￡ 137.00 *

Already celebrated as a busy entrepot and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength of its multi-ethnic and multi-religious urban fabric. Yet, contrary to the expectations of heritage experts and aficionados, the global mission of safeguarding cultural heritages has become a tumultuous issue on the ground. In World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds how the World Heritage 'label' has been, and continue to be used by different actors - such as international organizations, nation states, and society at large - to generate new economic revenues as well as to attract tourists and investments for large-scale real estate development projects is analyzed, revealing the complex and often contradictory stories behind heritage designations in urban milieus.

McDuie-Ra, Duncan, Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia: Endless Spots. (Consumption and Sustainability in Asia) 210 pp. 2021:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-1953>
ISBN 978-94-6372-313-8 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these spots to make skate video, skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. Once captured, skate video circulates rapidly through digital platforms to millions of viewers, enrolling spots from Shenzhen to Ramallah into an alternative cartography of Asia. This book explores this way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, and the implications for relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development.