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

Azubuike, Smith I. / Asekomeh, Ayodele / Gershon, O. (eds.), Decarbonisation Pathways for African Cities. (Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies) 157 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-900>
ISBN 978-3-031-14005-1 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities. Throughout the book the authors highlight infrastructural, governance and policy approaches to drive decarbonisation. Opening with chapters focused on propositions for solar urban planning and scope for decarbonisation in waste management the book then moves on to examine innovative strategies for a low-carbon healthcare sector. The authors then discuss the use of hybrid power systems at remote telecommunication sites, their deployment on university campuses, and how this can be optimised to reduce carbon emissions. Further chapters explore government, private sector and civil society actions for decarbonising Kenyan cities and an overview of the political economic choices for decarbonising Petro-cities. Finally, closing chapters propose mechanisms for translating COP26 takeaways to decarbonisation policies and a low-carbon framework for African cities.

Membretti, Andrea / Taylor, Sue Jean / Delves, J. L. (eds.), Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa's Mountains: Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 302 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <688-915>
ISBN 978-3-031-15772-1 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-15775-2 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa 'homeland' under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to between 400,000 - 700,000 people but in many areas lacks formal infrastructure and services. Each chapter of this volume addresses a different aspect of the city's development and all take the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a common framework to guide their reflections on potential sustainable futures for Phuthaditjhaba. While the circumstances in Phuthaditjhaba will be familiar to many researchers of informal and growing cities in developing regions, the mountain setting of the city brings its own set of challenges and opportunities linked to the rugged and steep terrain, remoteness and natural resources. This book serves to showcase the diverse research taking place in this emerging mountain city and provide reflections on how a sustainable future can be ensured for its environment and inhabitants.

計画と権力ハンドブック
Gunder, Michael / Grange, Kristina / Winkler, Tanja (eds.), Handbook on Planning and Power. (Research Handbooks in Planning) 464 pp. 2023:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <688-979>
ISBN 978-1-83910-975-1 hard ¥57,640.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00 *

Drawing on research from diverse thinkers in urban planning and the built environment, this Handbook articulates the cutting edge of contemporary understandings about power and its impact on planning. It identifies the current state of knowledge about planning and power, as well as emerging trajectories within this field of research.This comprehensive Handbook examines power relations in late capitalism and provides normative suggestions on how power might be utilised in planning. Chapters analyse the work of fundamental theoretical thinkers, including Marx, Foucault, Deleuze, and Lacan, as well as the history and practice of abolitionist housing justice in the United States, feminist and queer perspectives on planning and power, and the emerging autonomous Smart City. It demonstrates the effects of power within planning and the ways in which individuals, communities, and organisations are shaped and impacted positively and negatively by its practices.With case studies from a range of different geopolitical regions, this stimulating Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of architecture, community development, geography, urban and regional planning, urban design, and urban studies. It will also be beneficial for practitioners of planning and the built environment.

House, Danielle / Westendorp, Mariske (eds.), New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation. 256 pp. 2023:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <688-981>
ISBN 978-1-80220-238-0 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

Establishing a new set of international perspectives from around the world on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes - material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death - to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.Chapters reveal how urban deathscapes are experienced, used, managed and described in specific locales in varied settings; how their norms and values intersect and at times conflict with the norms of dominant and assumed practices; and how they are influenced by the dynamic practices, politics and demographics typical of urban spaces. Case studies from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America highlight the differences between deathscapes, but also show their clear commonality in being as much a part of the world of the living as they are of the dead.With a people- and space-centred approach, this book will be an interesting read for human geography, death studies and urban studies scholars, as well as social and cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its international and interdisciplinary nature will also make this a beneficial book for planning and landscape architecture, religious studies and courses on death practices.

Kipfer, Stefan, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context. (Historical Materialism Book Series 262) 314 pp. 2022:9 (Brill, NE) <688-982>
ISBN 978-90-04-52490-3 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) EUR 130.00 *

What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven, terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North America and political anti-racism in mainland France.

Lanci, Gloria, Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces. 214 pp. 2022:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-984>
ISBN 978-3-031-13305-3 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the contemporary world, little research is dedicated to investigating how artists intervene in the realm of urban cartography. The research examines a century-old history of art maps and draws on academic debates challenging traditional notions of maps as scientific artefacts produced through accurate measurement and surveying. The potential of art maps to construct personal narratives, through contestation, embodiment and play, is analysed in the city context, where spaces are shaped by urban planning and design, political ideologies and socio-economic forces. Adopting an exploratory and interpretative research approach that investigates the confluence of theories originated in different domains, this book conducts the reader to discover what artistic practices can bring into a more creative, while inquisitive, understanding of cities. A series of semi-structured interviews with visual artists, enquiring how they apprehend, process and re-create urban spaces in artworks, explores cartographic process and methods in visual art practices in the twenty first century, which incorporates digital technologies and critical thinking.

Olcar, Cumhur, Urban Movements and Their Impact on Spatial Transformation. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy) 268 pp. 2023:1 (Brill, NE) <688-986>
ISBN 978-90-04-52988-5 hard ¥32,818.- (税込) EUR 135.00

Migration is no longer a movement from the rural to the urban, but rather from city to city or from the city to the metropolis in this swiftly urbanising world. This book uses new paradigms to explain why urban movements rise from the development of cities and are gradually increasing. It urges new Urban Studies to recognise that the rate of urbanisation occurring in developing regions is higher than that of developed regions and that the change is profound. A multidisciplinary approach is a prerequisite for Urban Studies to understand urban movements and the struggle for urban space in the nearby future of cities worldwide.

Scapolo, Andrea / Porcarelli, Angela (eds.), Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures. (Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective) 2022: (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <688-988>
ISBN 978-94-6372-466-1 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

人々、土地利用、交通の統合　第2版
Stanley, John / Stanley, Janet / Hansen, Roslynne, How Great Cities Happen: Integrating People, Land Use and Transport. 2nd ed. (Cities) 352 pp. 2023:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <688-989>
ISBN 978-1-80392-405-2 hard ¥31,702.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a broader approach in order to create and sustain great cities.Offering innovative solutions to these contemporary challenges, this second edition of How Great Cities Happen examines new and emerging directions in strategic land use transport planning and analyses how cities function as a home for future generations and other species. Taking an integrated approach, and building on the first edition, chapters explore a broad range of issues concerning strategic urban planning. These include planning for productivity growth; social inclusion and wellbeing, with a particular focus on planning cities for children and youth; housing affordability; environmental sustainability; and integrated governance and funding arrangements. New issues covered in this edition include pressing concerns like climate change and biodiversity protection. The authors adopt a meticulous yet non-technical and accessible approach, grounded in a blend of academic and real-world experience of cities.This transdisciplinary second edition will prove vital to students and scholars of urban planning, transport economics, and social and environmental policy, alongside professional planners and urban policymakers.

国際計画研究－入門
Sykes, Olivier / Shaw, David / Webb, Brian, International Planning Studies: An Introduction. (Planning, Environment, Cities) 289 pp. 2022:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-990>
ISBN 978-981-19-5406-1 paper ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across different scales in diverse global contexts. A series of chapters covers past episodes of international influence and exchange in planning, key concepts, research strategies, methods in contemporary international planning studies, as well as ways of characterising and comparing planning systems. The authors explore the emergence of a global agenda for planning, through the activities and goal setting of international organisations, and professional and civil society networks. Transnational and cross-border contexts and initiatives in different global regions, and their relevance to planning, are investigated. An invaluable resource for students and researchers in planning studies, this book offers an important reflection on the internationalisation of planning practice, education, and scholarship, and the future prospects for planning and planning studies from an international perspective.

Zoysa, Rapti Siriwardane-de et al. (eds.), Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings. (Social Sciences in Asia 42) 236 pp. 2022:10 (Brill, NE) <688-991>
ISBN 978-90-04-51108-8 hard ¥25,525.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities, through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself. How might conceptualisations of contemporary coastal urbanisms be approached from the sea, in ways that complicate singularly terrestrial, fixed framings of the city? What connections, contradictions, and dissonances can be found between sea change and urban change? While addressing these questions, the authors re-centre more marginal voices of those who dwell and work in islanded metropoles, offering new insights on the futures and contested nature(s) of littoral urban transformation.

Hogan Fouberg, Erin / Stuhrenberg Smith, Janet (eds.), Teaching Human Geography: Theories and Practice in Thinking Geographically. (Elgar Guides to Teaching) 240 pp. 2023:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <688-310>
ISBN 978-1-80088-519-6 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

This timely book examines advances in teaching and learning at undergraduate level from the disciplines of geography education, neuroscience and learning science. Connecting these disciplines, the chapters integrate research on how students learn and explain how to teach students to think geographically and develop a deeper understanding of their world.Questioning what it means to think geographically, the editors identify ten elements that characterize thinking geographically including the weaving of various perspectives, making connections, creating meaning through spatial thinking, relational thinking and multi-scalar thinking. The book offers a collection of turnkey exercises designed by geography educators for use in human geography courses. These insightful exercises are designed to assist with promoting geographic thinking and learning, The editors provide a matrix that serves as an outstanding resource.Teaching Human Geographymakes a unique and significant contribution to geography education as an excellent resource for instructors looking to improve their practice and facilitate learning. Addressing how geography teaching can be transformed, it will also improve undergraduates' ability to think geographically by integrating research in learning science and geography education.

Kramarz, Marzena / Dohn, Katarzyna / Przybylska, E. et al., Urban Logistics in a Digital World: Smart Cities and Innovation. 162 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-393>
ISBN 978-3-031-12890-5 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

A smart city is a city that collates data via various technological methods, and uses insights gleaned from this data to manage assets, resources, services and operations more efficiently. Though the concept of 'smart cities' is fairly new, there is a vast amount of interest in the topic, exploring how technological advances can be used to better manage the integration of business and operations within a city, as well as how sustainable choices can be written into the fabric of an urban space. This book explores logistics within smart cities: the greater logistical demands of a smart city, how logistics can be adapted to new challenges, and what sort of new logistical support a smart city will need. The book pays particular attention to how logistical innovation within a smart city can lead to greater sustainability in the city, and on a global level. It will be of interest to academics working in logistics, urban planning, innovation management, digital technology, sustainability management, and operations management.

Pincay Nieves, Jhonny, Smart Urban Logistics: Improving Delivery Services by Computational Intelligence. (Fuzzy Management Methods) 210 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <688-471>
ISBN 978-3-031-16703-4 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Last-mile delivery in cities, where the main problems are the traffic situation and ensuring access to customers' homes while maintaining their privacy, poses a substantial logistical challenge. This book explores how the service area of mobility, especially last-mile delivery, can be improved and smartified. It demonstrates how a design science method and a transdisciplinary approach have been used to create a traffic area analysis tool that can accommodate the uncertainty and incompleteness of geospatial data; a linguistic traffic merging tool; and a customer classifier. In terms of developing the optimization artifacts, the socio-economic and logistical aspects of cities were considered and fuzzy logic and nature-inspired swarm intelligence (fuzzy ant colony optimization) were applied as basic principles. Pursuing a transdisciplinary approach, the book offers both practical know-how from the industry and theoretical findings, making it a valuable asset for researchers and practitioners in the fields of mobility and logistics.