Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Wu, Fulong / Keil, Roger (eds.), Changing Asian Urban Geographies: Urbanism and Peripheral Areas. 142 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <697-817>
ISBN 978-1-03-229090-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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

Bigon, Liora / Langenthal, Edna, Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 256 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-983>
ISBN 978-1-03-252797-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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

欧州とアジアにおけるスマートシティ
Biswas, Prana Krishna / Dygas, Robert (eds.), Smart Cities in Europe and Asia: Urban Planning and Management for a Sustainable Future. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 196 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-984>
ISBN 978-1-03-242982-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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

Hillmann, Felicitas / Samers, Michael (eds.), Cities, Migration, and Governance: Beyond Scales and Levels. 156 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-989>
ISBN 978-1-03-244788-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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

Kumar, L. Ashok / Manivel, R. / Dor, Eyal Ben (eds.), Sustainable Digital Technologies for Smart Cities: Healthcare, Communication, and Transportation. 264 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-991>
ISBN 978-1-03-230984-2 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

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

比較的グローバル都市研究ハンドブック
Le Gales, Patrick / Robinson, Jennifer (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies. (Routledge International Handbooks) 632 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <697-992>
ISBN 978-0-367-25466-7 hard ¥56,980.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00 *

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

Modigliani, Leah, Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action. (Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City) 216 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-993>
ISBN 978-1-03-219511-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists' responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of counter-revanchism in the context of the rise of the global city. How do artists channel the global spatial conflicts of the 21st century through their behaviours, actions, and constructions in and on the actually existing conditions of the street? What does it mean for artists-the very symbol of freedom of personal expression-to shut down space? To refuse entry? To block others' passage? The late critical geographer Neil Smith's influential writing on the revanchist city is used as a theoretical frame for understanding how contemporary artists engender the public sphere through their work in public urban spaces. Each chapter is a case study that analyses artworks that have taken the form of walls and barricades in China, USA, UK, Ukraine, and Mexico. In doing so, the author draws upon diverse fields including art history, geography, philosophy, political science, theatre studies, and urban studies to situate the art in a broader context of the humanities with the aim of modelling interdisciplinary research grounded in an ethics of solidarity with global social justice work. Collectively these case studies reveal how artists' local responses to urban revanchism since the end of the Cold War are productive reorientations of social relations and harbingers of worlds to come. By using plain language and avoiding excessive academic jargon, the book is accessible to a wide variety of readers. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students in the fields of studio art, modern and contemporary art history, performance studies, visual culture, and visual studies; especially in relation to those interested in conceptual practices, performance art, site-specificity, public art, political activism, and socially engaged art. Cultural geographers and urban theorists interested in the social and political ramifications of temporary and everyday urbanism will also find the analysis of artworks relevant to their own studies.

Pauwels, Luc (ed.), Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology: Exploring the Urban Everyday. (Research in Urban Sociology 18, Part B) 288 pp. 2023:7 (Emerald, UK) <697-994>
ISBN 978-1-80455-633-7 hard ¥28,459.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

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

Pauwels, Luc (ed.), Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology: Imagining the Sensory City. (Research in Urban Sociology 18, Part A) 244 pp. 2023:7 (Emerald, UK) <697-995>
ISBN 978-1-83909-969-4 hard ¥26,734.- (税込) US$ 124.00 *

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

Richards, Simon / Sanliturk, C. / Schmidt, R., III (eds.), Region. (Critiques) 352 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-997>
ISBN 978-1-03-242257-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-242297-8 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words 'region' and 'regional' mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the forms they might take in the future. Region is explored in many thematic guises: as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity; as a mythical locus of enduring value; as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques; as a site of architectural and artistic imagination; as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical and literary page through to architectural and urban practice, and from the scale of the domestic hearth through to the ocean archipelago and international law, enriching the long-standing trope of viewing architectural regionalism purely as a matter of style. Curated into four key thematic areas - Theorised Regions, Contested Regions, Heritage Regions and Future Regions - the book incorporates the values, concerns and approaches of a truly diverse international community of scholars, curators and practitioners, as well as the design work of international students tasked to explore what region means to them.

Shekhar, Sulochana / Kumar, Deepak (eds.), Geoinformatics for Sustainable Urban Development. (Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia) 392 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-999>
ISBN 978-1-03-236256-4 hard ¥32,763.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00 *

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

Darden, Joe T., Detroit After Bankruptcy: Are There Trends Towards an Inclusive City? 288 pp. 2023:7 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-703>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3566-1 hard ¥22,788.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99 *
ISBN 978-1-5292-3567-8 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a 'new beginning'. This book critically examines the evidence for and against this claim. Joe T. Darden analyzes whether Detroit's patterns of race and class neighborhood inequality have persisted or whether investments have led to improvements in academic achievement, homeownership, employment, and reductions in poverty and violent crime. He measures, quantitatively, the benefits and disadvantages of staying in urban Detroit or moving to the suburbs, and provides evidence to answer whether Detroit, after bankruptcy, is becoming an inclusive city.

公共部門におけるスマートな組織－EUにおける持続可能な地域開発
Godlewska-Majkowska, Hanna / Pilewicz, T. / Zarebski, P., Smart Organizations in the Public Sector: Sustainable Local Development in the European Union. (Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations) 224 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <697-705>
ISBN 978-1-03-220907-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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

Boyer, Kate / Eaves, LaToya E. / Fluri, Jennifer (eds.), Activist Feminist Geographies. 288 pp. 2023 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <697-251>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2509-9 hard ¥24,498.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99 *

This book is novel and unlike any other book out there. It will expand the knowledge base on activist Feminist Geography research in one place and include cutting-edge original research.

Hollands, Robert, Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy. 240 pp. 2023:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <697-253>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3312-4 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

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

Reis Mourao, Paulo Jorge / Blanco-Varela, B. et al. (eds.), Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces: Global Policy Experiences and Implications. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 304 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-254>
ISBN 978-1-03-204107-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

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

欧州の地域政策・開発
Sanchez-Carreira, Maria del Carmen / Reis Mourao, P. J. (eds.), European Regional Policy and Development: Forgotten Regions and Spaces. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 232 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-255>
ISBN 978-1-03-218796-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy. Thus, regions have become more active in the design and implementation of policies, following a bottom-up approach and involving the participation of the local community in strategic planning, as opposed to the traditional top-down method. This book addresses regional development theories and policies, with a special focus on forgotten places, and raises emerging questions about recent theoretical advances, as well as trends and challenges in the field. It examines two main and related issues: the crucial role of regional actors for development and the role of Forgotten Spaces. It emphasizes the spatial/territorial approaches from different theoretical perspectives, underlining place-based approaches and compares the experiences of both successful and failed cases, attempting to identify lessons and policy recommendations, as well as adding empirical evidence to this field. The different cases presented, which focus on Forgotten Spaces, allow the reader to assess the role of different actors for regional development as well as some sectoral approaches. While there is a clear focus on European countries with different geographical, institutional and sociocultural characteristics, the book also examines good and bad examples of regional development and policies related to forgotten places from different regions worldwide, including developed and developing countries.The book benefits from contributions from over 20 authors from different nationalities, and a rich diversity of case studies, approaches and methods of discussion. The authors discuss practical examples and more complex theoretical approaches, involving techniques of spatial analysis, spatial econometrics, social networks, content analysis as well as regional planning techniques. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience and will provide academicians, politicians, and policy designers with original and detailed analyses.

林真人著　都市部の貧困の再設計－日本におけるホームレスネス、国家再編成、都市政治
Hayashi, Mahito, Rescaling Urban Poverty: Homelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan. (RGS-IBG Book Series) 304 pp. 2023:5 (Wiley, US) <697-311>
ISBN 978-1-119-69097-9 hard ¥20,471.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-119-69102-0 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

RESCALING URBAN POVERTY "In this path-breaking book, Mahito Hayashi explores the rescaled geographies of homelessness that have been produced in contemporary Japanese cities. Through an original synthesis of regulationist political economy and immersive place-based research, Hayashi situates urban homelessness in Japan in comparative-international contexts. The book offers new theoretical perspectives from which to decipher emergent forms of urban marginality and their contestation." -Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Chicago "Mahito Hayashi traces the shifting spatial strategies of unhoused people as they create spaces of emancipation within Japanese cities. Attending to the complexities of contentious class politics and livelihoods barely sustained by the survival economies, Rescaling Urban Poverty is a unique and valuable contribution to the study of the geographies of urban social movements." -Nik Theodore, Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago Rescaling Urban Poverty discloses the hidden dynamics of state rescaling that ensnares homeless people at the fringes of mainstream society and its housing regimes/classes. Explains the oppressive effects of rescaling and its limits in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, urban class relations, social movements, and capitalismUses ethnography as a re-ontologising medium of critical theorisation in Lefebvrian, Gramscian, Harveyan, and other Marxian strandsDevelops rich context-based and field-based arguments about social movements, poverty and housing policy, and public space formation in JapanUncovers the radical geographies of placemaking, commoning, and translation that can create prohomeless urban environments under rescalingRefines the method of abstraction to broaden the international scope of critical literatures and links different scholarly standpoints without obscuring disagreements By advancing a broad research program for homelessness and poverty, Rescaling Urban Poverty provides the essential understanding of how state rescaling ensnares homeless and impoverished people in the interplay of the state, domiciled society, public space, urban class relations, social movements, and capitalism. Its three angles - national states, public and private spaces, and urban social movements - uncover the hidden dynamics of rescaling that emerge, and are resisted, at the fringes of mainstream society and its housing regimes/classes. Evidence is drawn from Japanese cities where the author has conducted long-term fieldwork and develops robust urban narratives by mobilising spatial regulation theory, metabolism theory, state theory, and critical housing theory. The book cross-fertilises these Lefebvrian, Gramscian, Harveyan, and other Marxian strands through meticulous efforts to reinterpret both old and new texts. By building bridges between classical and contemporary interests, and between the theories and Japanese cities, this book attracts various audiences in geography, sociology, urban studies, and political economy.

Sheppard, Adam / Croft, Nick / Smith, Nick, The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning. 2nd ed. (Short Guides) 192 pp. 2023:5 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-1000>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6981-3 paper ¥4,270.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99 *

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

Yuille, Andy, Beyond Neighbourhood Planning: Knowledge, Care, Legitimacy. 224 pp. 2023:6 (Policy Pr., UK) <697-1002>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6283-8 hard ¥24,498.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99 *

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