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

Teles, Filipe / Rodrigues, Carlos / Ramos, F. et al. (eds.), Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: Governance, Technologies, and Sustainability. (Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance) 305 pp. 2023:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <698-505>
ISBN 978-3-031-20576-7 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the roles of communities in the general framework of territorial innovation, particularly in the context of less developed regions. With a specific focus on Portugal, it offers conceptual improvements that will be of use to other European regions. The book will appeal to scholars and students of regional governance and politics, from public administration to economics, sociology, geography and political science, as well as to practitioners.

Chatterjee, Uday / Antipova, A. / Ghosh, S. et al. (eds.), Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability. (Human Dynamics in Smart Cities) 678 pp. 2023:5 (Springer, GW) <698-595>
ISBN 978-3-031-25913-5 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization. In addition, comprehensive perspectives are offered on how the contemporary urban challenges of our time are tackled by existing designers, architects, urban planners, and landscape architects thereby considering climate change, migration, resilience, politics, and environmental degradation. It includes insights from environmental design, geography, strategic planning, and engineering design. It goes beyond the jargon of technical innovation, and exposes the political, social and physical effects of digitalizing the world in smart cities. The book focuses on the application of geospatial technology of smart cities - including system design for basic services, real-time control and the Internet of Things. It highlights the planning of land use, strategic development, and ecosystem-based knowledge to enhance economic growth and healthy urban environment and smart city management. The book also shows the contradictory aspects of smart city studies, and provides useful insights into the creation and execution of policies to strengthen decision-making processes in smart cities. This book leads the reader to a greater understanding of smart city growth, both theoretical and realistic and as such it provides an interesting read for urban geographers, urban designers and planners, environmental specialists, practitioners, students.

Hirsh, Max / Mostowlansky, Till (eds.), Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia. 277 pp. 2023:1 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <698-596>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9291-3 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8248-9292-0 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social change converge and cross-fertilize one another through infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully illustrates the multifaceted connections between infrastructure and three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China's emergence as a superpower. Drawing on fine-grained analyses of airports, highways, pipelines, and digital communication systems, the book investigates infrastructure both "from above," as perceived by experts and decision makers, and "from below," as experienced by middlemen, laborers, and everyday users. In so doing, it provides groundbreaking insights into infrastructure's planning, production, and operation.Focusing on cities and regions across Asia, the volume combines ten tightly interwoven case studies, from the Bosphorus to Beijing and from the Indonesian archipelago to the Arctic. Written by leading global infrastructure experts in the fields of anthropology, architecture, geography, history, science and technology studies, and urban planning, the book establishes a dialogue between scholarly approaches to infrastructure and the more operational perspective of the professionals who design and build it. This multidisciplinary method sheds light on the practitioners' mindset, while also attending to the materiality and agency of the infrastructures that they create. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia is conceived as an act of translation: linking up related-yet thus far disconnected-research across a variety of academic disciplines, while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of students, infrastructure professionals, and the general public.

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Yang, Yizhao / Taufen, Anne (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 900 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) <698-598>
ISBN 978-0-367-47114-9 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Oezyavuz, Murat (ed.), Sustainability, Conservation and Ecology in Spatial Planning and Design: New approaches, solutions, applications. 986 pp. 2022:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <698-718>
ISBN 978-3-631-87642-8 paper ¥38,438.- (税込) SFR 156.00

With climate change, differences have emerged in spatial planning and designs in urban and rural areas. Considering our present and future conditions, professions dealing with spatial planning and design will have great responsibilities. Rethinking urban and rural areas is the most important of these tasks.

Blum, Alan, The Material City: Bodies, Minds, and the In-Between. (Culture of Cities Series) 248 pp. 2023:4 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <698-723>
ISBN 978-0-228-01661-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, Alan Blum explores the methods cities and their subjects use to find meaning in the context of urban life, in particular the city's relationships to social change and what has traditionally been identified as justice.The Material City pictures the city as a landscape of diverse clashes over beliefs, a site that exhibits interpretive collisions over globalization, gentrification, innovation, preservation, market value, popular culture, crowds, consumption, urban governance, and different strategies for healing the democratic city's ever-present conflicts over these concerns. Each chapter uses a problem of urban life to observe and analyze assumptions and values that are typically taken for granted and unspoken, using elements of the philosophy of Plato as well as the work of modern thinkers such as Georg Simmel, Gertrude Stein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Lacan.The Material City translates contested views of everyday life and its management into a deeper reflection on urbanity as a system of desire. The historical and the contemporary metropolis alike are shown to be sites where the enigma of mortality - and its relation to pleasure, comedy, and fate - plays out.

Vigil, James Diego, A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-City. 231 pp. 2023:1 (U. Texas Pr., US) <698-729>
ISBN 978-1-4773-2705-0 paper ¥5,149.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

Winner, Best Book on Ethnic and Racial Politics in a Local or Urban Setting , Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Political Science Association, 2002This cross-cultural study of Los Angeles gangs identifies the social and economic factors that lead to gang membership and underscores their commonality across four ethnic groups--Chicano, African American, Vietnamese, and Salvadorian. With nearly 1,000 gangs and 200,000 gang members, Los Angeles holds the dubious distinction of being the youth gang capital of the United States. The process of street socialization that leads to gang membership now cuts across all ethnic groups, as evidenced by the growing numbers of gangs among recent immigrants from Asia and Latin America. This cross-cultural study of Los Angeles gangs identifies the social and economic factors that lead to gang membership and underscores their commonality across four ethnic groups-Chicano, African American, Vietnamese, and Salvadorian. James Diego Vigil begins at the community level, examining how destabilizing forces and marginalizing changes have disrupted the normal structures of parenting, schooling, and policing, thereby compelling many youths to grow up on the streets. He then turns to gang members' life stories to show how societal forces play out in individual lives. His findings provide a wealth of comparative data for scholars, policymakers, and law enforcement personnel seeking to respond to the complex problems associated with gangs.

Weissenrieder, Daniel, Exploring Platform Urbanism Using Counter-Mapping: Opening the Black Box. (BestMasters) 117 pp. 2023:2 (Springer VS, GW) <698-730>
ISBN 978-3-658-40647-9 paper ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99

In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform urbanism focuses on these developments and concentrates on platforms and their impact on everyday life in urban space. This book introduces a novel approach to the problems of accessibility and opacity in this area of research. In order to explore the black box platform urbanism more thoroughly, different participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography are examined. The potential of so-called counter-mapping practices and related approaches for a deeper exploration of platform urbanism is discussed. The author thus establishes the nexus between participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography and their application potential for platform urbanism and provides numerous starting points for future research.

White, James T. / Punter, John, Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace. 406 pp. 2023:5 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <698-731>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6839-6 paper ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Condoland casts CityPlace - a massive residential development of more than thirty condominium towers just outside Toronto's downtown core - as a microcosm of twenty-first-century urban intensification. Built almost entirely by a single private developer, this immense neighbourhood took decades to plan, design, and develop, but the end result lacks a sense of place and is not widely accessible to those who need homes: only a small number of its 13,000 units constitute affordable housing, and public amenities are limited. In this richly illustrated volume, James T. White and John Punter reveal the stories behind the design, architecture, and planning of CityPlace. They also consider the tools used to shape Toronto's built environment and critically assess the underlying political economy of planning and real estate development in the city. Condoland raises key questions about the long-term sustainability and resilience of cities that acquiesce to the rapacious development industry.

Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S., Spatial Socio-econometric Modeling (SSEM): A Low-Code Toolkit for Spatial Data Science and Interactive Visualizations Using R. (Springer Texts in Social Sciences) 518 pp. 2023:5 (Springer, GW) <698-215>
ISBN 978-3-031-24856-6 paper ¥20,660.- (税込) EUR 84.99 *

With the primary goal of expanding access to spatial data science tools, this book offers dozens of minimal or low-code functions and tutorials designed to ease the implementation of fully reproducible Spatial Socio-Econometric Modeling (SSEM) analyses. Designed as a University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. level course for sociologists, political scientists, urban planners, criminologists, and data scientists, this textbook equips social scientists with all concepts, explanations, and functions required to strengthen their data storytelling. It specifically provides social scientists with a comprehensive set of open-access minimal code tools to:*Identify and access place-based longitudinal and cross-sectional data sources and formats*Conduct advanced data management, including crosswalks, joining, and matching*Fully connect social network analyses with geospatial statistics*Formulate research questions designed to account for place-based factors in model specification and assess their relevance compared to individual- or unit-level indicators*Estimate distance measures across units that follow road network paths *Create sophisticated and interactive HTML data visualizations cross-sectionally or longitudinally, to strengthen research storytelling capabilities*Follow best practices for presenting spatial analyses, findings, and implications*Master theories on neighborhood effects, equality of opportunity, and geography of (dis)advantage that undergird SSEM applications and methods*Assess multicollinearity issues via machine learning that may affect coefficients' estimates and guide the identification of relevant predictors*Strategize how to address feedback loops by using SSEM as an identification framework that can be merged with standard quasi-experimental techniques like propensity score models, instrumental variables, and difference in differences*Expand the SSEM analyses to connections that emerge via social interactions, such as co-authorship and advice networks, or any form of relational dataThe applied nature of the book along with the cost-free, multi-operative R software makes the usability and applicability of this textbook worldwide.

Dalla Longa, Remo, Urban Infrastructure: Globalization / Slowbalization. 274 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <698-269>
ISBN 978-3-031-23784-3 hard ¥26,737.- (税込) EUR 109.99

The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the driving force taken by global cities. Urban infrastructure is a constituent part of the global cities, both have a synergistic evolution. The main reference is to western global cities in the intertwining of financialization, settling and brownfield which is a little different from the urbanization of other global cities of other non- developed countries, or emerging countries. There is therefore a significant link between globalization and urban infrastructure. The occurrence of slowbalization can have consequences on urban areas infrastructures and more generally on the different dichotomy between global city and nation. With the pandemic infectious and the post COVID, there is already a different configuration between the global city and the rest of the national territory. A driving element of the urban infrastructure and the global city has been the financialization and identification of assets within global cities. Urban infrastructure as an asset has grown considerably in the last two decades, in the wake of what has already been highlighted previously for real estate. There are contiguous issues that affect the concept of urban infrastructures and they are the enormous growth of finance and the landings of this in the great cities of the world with investments that first involved Real Estate and then urban infrastructures. There has also been a technological revolution that has merged the ubiquitous technological infrastructure with other more traditional components of the infrastructure, even apparently recent themes, such as smart cities, come from this evolutionary trend and merge with urban infrastructures. The theme of smart cities, if properly interpreted, gives strength to the concept of urban infrastructure.