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

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. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <695-516>
ISBN 978-1-03-224787-8 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

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 ¥13,253.- (税込) GB￡ 45.99 *

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 policymakers 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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (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 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 non-governmental organisations (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 ¥21,305.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-119-81200-5 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

CONCRETE CITY "Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West Africa. From post-independence high modernist ambitions to building the opportunities to make a living, the emerging transnational corridor along the West African coast provides a starting point for insights which will expand and inform understanding of both established and newly emerging urbanization processes in many different contexts." -Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College of London, UK "In this very innovative and superbly illustrated book, Armelle Choplin makes cement vibrant with affect, politics, economic interests and cultural meanings. She takes us to a fascinating journey along the West African urban corridor following the social life of concrete and showing how this material shapes contemporary urbanization and everyday life." -Ola Soederstroem, Professor of Geography, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa delivers a theoretically informed, ethnographic exploration of the African urban world through the life of concrete. Emblematic of frenetic urban and capitalistic development, this material is pervasive, shaping contemporary urban landscapes and societies and their links to the global world. It stands and circulates at the heart of major financial investments, political forces and environmental debates. At the same time, it epitomises values of modernity and success, redefining social practices, forms of dwelling and living, and popular imaginaries. The book invites the reader to follow bags of cement from production plant to construction site, along the 1000-kilometre urban corridor that links Abidjan to Accra, Lome, Cotonou and Lagos, combining the perspectives of cement tycoons, entrepreneurs and political stakeholders, but also of ordinary men and women who plan, build and dream of the Concrete City. With this innovative exploration of urban life through concrete, Armelle Choplin delivers a fascinating journey into and reflection on the sustainability of our urban futures.

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 ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

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 ¥7,405.- (税込) US$ 33.00 *

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 ¥6,507.- (税込) US$ 29.00 *

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 ¥8,078.- (税込) US$ 36.00 *

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 ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-246996-6 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

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 everyday 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.

米国における都市計画－政策、諸問題、過程　第5版
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 ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-47862-9 paper ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 58.99 *

Extensively revised and updated, Planning in the USA, fifth 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 ofeducation and equity in planningthe City Beautiful MovementDaniel Burnham's plan for ChicagosegregationKnick v. Township of Scottreforming single-family zoning and regulatory challenges in zoning and land useDaniel Parolek's 'Missing Middle Housing'climate change, mitigation, adaptation, and resiliencythe drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigansharing programs for cars, bicycles, and scootershybrid electric and autonomous vehiclesVision ZeroCOVID-19 relief for housingInnovation Districts, Promise Zones, and Opportunity Zonesthe sharing, gig, and creative economiesscenic views and vistas, monuments, statues, and remembering the past; andhealthy cities, Health Impact Assessment, and active livingThis 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, fifth 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 ¥24,908.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

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 ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-48618-1 paper ¥9,795.- (税込) GB￡ 33.99 *

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 ¥24,908.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-241402-7 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in the world's towns and cities, almost 50% 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 Commonwealth 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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-241089-0 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

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 ¥10,948.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

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 ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5315-0282-9 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continually 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 re-invigorated. 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 provide 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 resonates 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 also 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 virtual 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 ever more 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 theater, 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 that also help them learn the language of solidarity and collectivity that a sustainable democracy needs. Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons 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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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 ¥6,320.- (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 ¥11,220.- (税込) US$ 50.00 *

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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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 focussing 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 enquiry. 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 ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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, and national urban policies in changing their urban landscape. The volume argues that culture is an important determinant of the emergent urban patterns. It decodes and determines the human centered inter-linkages among social, cultural, economic, and political aspects, and their reactions to 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.