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

Shafique, Tanzil, City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh. 216 pp. 2024:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-966>
ISBN 978-1-350-43860-6 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlements, or "slums".Informal settlements house more than a billion people now and will house three billion people by 2050. Yet they remain marginalised in urban theory and practice, and most projects to improve them fail due to a lack of knowledge of the ongoing processes that build them.Through a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, Shafique offers ground-breaking insights into the production of informal urbanism through a brand-new approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping. Shafique explores, for the first time, the many different desires of settlement-dwellers and how these drive everyday urban change. He also offers brilliantly innovative recommendations for the policy-making, upgrading and management of both existing and future informal settlements. Written in an engaging narrative that weaves local stories with theoretical insight, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in international development, urban studies, sociology, and architecture.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Sheffield.

Cheshmehzangi, Ali / Tang, Tian, 30 Years of Urban Change in China's 10 Core Cities. (Urban Sustainability) 246 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-915>
ISBN 978-981-9788-45-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

As a continuation of our award-winning book 'China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality', this book covers China's major urban changes over the last 30 years. Unlike the previous book, where we highlighted regional development issues, this book explicitly explores the city cases, particularly those that are considered core cities in China. Based on the micro-historical analysis of China's urbanization trend and urban development patterns, we see that cities in China have played a significant role in driving the country's sustainable development agenda. In a way, they have had both positive and negative impacts on achieving sustainable development. We look at these last three decades mainly because, during this period, China's urbanization became unprecedented, the central government made several pledges and signed many international agreements related to sustainable development, and China grew rapidly to become the second global economic power. Aligned with the overarching Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the more recent Carbon Neutrality Plan (CNP), Chinese core cities played a significant part in regional development, urban-rural relations, industrial clustering, the development of free trade zones and special economic zones, etc. All these recent developments are due to China's ongoing urbanization and urban development. '30 Years of Urban Change in China's 10 Core Cities' is a mapping study of China's core cities and their changes over three decades of rapid urbanization, urban growth, and economic development. We explicitly highlight each selected city's development trends, sustainable development plans, and major strategies. In this Volume (out of our two 'connected' volumes), we summarise lessons learnt from all 10 case study examples, and we hope they can be utilized for other developing and rapidly urbanizing nations. We expect this book to be a valuable resource for local governments, authorities, urban planners, urbanists, practitioners, developers, and urban researchers. We trust China is no longer a developing country, and much of these recent progressions are owed to its structured urban development strategies, robust governmental structure, and progressive attitude to growth and development. Hence, this topic coverage at the point where China's urbanization is shifting to high-quality urbanization is essential and beneficial to multiple stakeholders.

Zheng, Yongnian, Common Prosperity: A Chinese Approach to Inclusive Growth. (IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China's Public Policy) 138 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-934>
ISBN 978-981-9786-15-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers an in-depth analysis of China's drive for common prosperity from an insider's perspective. While philosophers and economists have long debated issues of inequality and growth, and societies have evolved from industrial to post-industrial information economies, challenges related to poverty and inequality persist. Major European nations have transitioned from early capitalist societies to modern welfare states, yet similar issues remain unresolved. Professor Zheng Yongnian provides a unique insight into China's approach to addressing these challenges through the lens of common prosperity. Drawing on newly published materials and empirical research, this book contrasts China's development model with Western welfare states, elucidating both the rationale behind and the implications of these differences. This translated version of Professor Zheng's recent work, ????????? (originally published in Chinese), is an essential read for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand China's strategy for achieving common prosperity.

Arora, Anvita / Belaid, F. / Lechtenberg-Kasten, S. (eds.), Climate-Resilient Cities: Priorities for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. (Contributions to Economics) 390 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <736-357>
ISBN 978-3-031-73089-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of scholars and experts, the book presents theoretical approaches, identifies risk factors, and suggests policies for building resiliency in a region of the world undergoing rapid urbanization. Chapters cover a diverse range of topics, including innovative concepts and studies in resilient city design, the interaction of social, entrepreneurial, governmental, and ecological transformations in the GCC region, and international best practices for risk reduction. Coupling rigorous economic analysis and practical policy implications, this book will be useful for students and academics of finance, governance, energy and resource economics, and climate change, as well as policymakers, community leaders, and risk reduction professionals.This is an open access book.

Linares, Santiago / Mikkelsen, C. A. et al (eds.), Quality of Life in Argentinian Cities in 2010. (The Latin American Studies Book Series) 345 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-373>
ISBN 978-3-031-74461-7 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book introduces a quality of life index that compares the intra-urban particularities of 23 cities in the Argentine Republic. Integrating demographic size, functional specialization, and regional location, the chapters employ a standard set of variables to assess socioeconomic and environmental inequality and wellbeing. A result of collaboration between 33 contributors from institutions around the country, the book provides a rich assessment of the mechanisms and processes by which the residential areas of Argentinian cities form, change, develop, and decline. Consistent measures of education, health, housing, and environmental wellbeing allow for deep examinations of each area and meaningful comparisons between them. The book also explores patterns that recur in multiple cases. Redevelopment and renewal processes in central and old areas of cities can lead to the creation or reenergization of modern, high-density neighborhoods that, benefitting from new construction and integrated commercial and service areas, exhibit high quality of life indices. Urban expansion stands out as a process that often results in or reinforces socio-spatial segregation: New, exclusive, low-density residential neighborhoods with single-family homes and green areas tend to have a high level of quality of life, thanks to good education, health services, housing, and natural amenities. In contrast, low-income neighborhoods with precarious housing, limited access to health and education services, and unfavorable environments exhibit lower quality of life measures. Increasingly common gated communities-with private security, exclusive services, and (internally) shared recreational spaces-reinforce this pattern of segregation. Analyzing the quality of life in different Argentinian cities is important to understanding the living conditions of the inhabitants, identifying areas for improvement, and supporting the development of inclusive and sustainable policies. These measurements can facilitate more just and prosperous environments for all citizens.

Grant, Miriam R. / Vainio-Mattila, Arja, The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe. 236 pp. 2025:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1018>
ISBN 978-3-031-73711-4 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities. Lodgers create micro, local and translocal communities and the lodging system offers livelihood strategies. Rather than engage in the dominant portrayal of rural-urban as binary, dichotomous space, we maintain that lodging represents and supports the translocal community and relational networks of the extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources.

Al, Stefan / Verebes, Tom (eds.), The Urbanism Reader: Design, Technology, Culture and the Future of Cities. 280 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1080>
ISBN 978-1-350-37791-2 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-350-37790-5 paper ¥8,290.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Positioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexities of cities and urban design in the 21st century. The selection of readings presented here is uniquely tailored to a design perspective for architects and urban designers - balancing social issues in urbanism with a clear focus on foregrounding design as an instrument for change in cities, and examining the outcomes and challenges of recent design theories, design methods, and technologies in the built urban environment. Covering today's most urgent issues, 44 texts explore key topics in urbanism - from digital design technologies to smart cities, from the ongoing ecological crisis to public health and the impact of Covid-19, and from emergence and informality to economic inequity in global cities. Chapters cover cultural issues including diversity, indigenous knowledge, decolonization, social justice, and inclusion alongside technological developments, while a final chapter speculates on the future of urbanism through readings in AI, virtual reality, and the frontiers of current thinking in architecture and urban design. The extracts are grouped by theme, each with an introduction to the historical contexts and guiding paradigms - helping design students, researchers, and professionals to make sense of the diverse field of theory and practice in the past, present, and future of global urbanism.

Colom-Gonzalez, Francisco (ed.), Urban Justice: Debating Spatial Exclusion, Common Goods and the Built Environment. (Studies in Global Justice 23) 194 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <736-1083>
ISBN 978-3-031-73339-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book outlines an interdisciplinary normative framework that makes sense of the historical transformation of cities and helps to assess contemporary urban conditions and policies for the built environment. This normative framework is embedded in what the editor and authors have termed 'urban justice'. As is widely acknowledged, the urban condition has become the inescapable horizon of modern life. Urban relations now permeate the lives of the majority of the world's population. Even if urbanization as a global process seems to have reached its zenith, there is no end in sight to the growth of cities. This is a fact that political theory must come to terms with when debating justice. To address this, this book is divided into three sections, each dealing with the spatial dimension of social agency, normative ideas about inclusive urban design, and contemporary processes that threaten to erode the urban fabric. In doing so, it helps one to normatively evaluate the spatial materialization of social relations in the city, so the view of urban habitat as a shared good becomes prominent. This book is of interest to scholars of urban studies, social sciences, political theory, and social philosophy, as well as those interested in contemporary urban processes in general.

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Dansero, Egidio / della Sala, Valerio (eds.), Turin's Olympic Legacy: The 2006 Winter Games and the Piedmont Region. (Mega Event Planning) 86 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1084>
ISBN 978-981-9790-63-0 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region. From urban renewal and pedestrianization to regional transport networks, tourism, and citizen participation, the book highlights the key elements that constitute the enduring Olympic legacy of the Turin Winter Games. It showcases how the city created a new image of itself internationally, transforming Turin from a car-centric industrial hub to a sustainable and vibrant metropolis. Turin was the first Olympic city to pioneer efforts in implementing environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable planning. Bringing together scholars from OMERO, the interdepartmental research center on "Urban and Event Studies" of the University of Turin and from other research centers that have extensively studied the Turin 2006 event, this book offers valuable insights into the long-term impact of hosting the Olympics and the innovative practices that constitute a significant legacy of the Turin Winter Games.

De Meulder, Bruno / Shannon, Kelly (eds.), Forest Urbanisms: New Non-Human and Human Ecologies for the 21st Century. (LAP 2) 240 pp. 2024:10 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <736-1085>
ISBN 978-94-6270-421-3 paper ¥12,936.- (税込) EUR 42.00

How forest urbanism can address the contemporary socio-ecological crisisA radical redefinition of how humanity occupies the earth - through forests, agriculture, and settlement - and rearticulates environmental stewardship by intertwining ecologies and urbanisms, this publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers. It explores the multifaceted notion of forest urbanisms, including a conceptual framing essay; contributions from the sciences such as bioscience engineering, architecture, urbanism and public policy; contemporary forest urbanism projects and explorative essays that make tangible an agenda for the 21st century. With descriptions of both built and non-built projects from around the globe, the essays show how such projects substantiate a radical shift in humankind's occupation of the world, where ecologies and urbanisms converge and agriculture, forests, and settlements are integrated.Forest Urbanisms extends growing research on a new nature-culture relationship, the necessity for trees in cities, and a rebalancing of ecology and urbanism.Contributing authors: Chiara Cavalieri (UC Louvain), Cecil Koninendijk (Nature Based Solutions Institute), Rik De Vreese (European Forest Institute), Bart Muys (KU Leuven), Colleen Murphy-Dunning (Yale University), Bureau Bas Smets, Kongjian Yu (Turenscape), Wim Wambecq and Joris Moonen (MIDI), Embya Paisagens & Ecossistemas, EFFEKT, TCL, aldayjover architecture and landscape, Bjoern Bracke (KU Leuven / Kollektif Landscape), Koenraad Danneels (KU Leuven), Marlene Boura (Biotope Environnement, Region de Bruxelles-Capitale), Swagata Das (KU Leuven), Kamni Gill (University of Manitoba), Alejandra Parra-Ortiz (University of Montreal), Gina Serrano-Aragundi (EPA Barranquilla Verde), Joerg Rekittke (University College Dublin), Takako Tajima (University of Southern California), Jamie Vanucchi (Cornell University), Maria Goula (Cornell University)Ebook available in Open Access.

Laketa, Suncana, Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times. (Bristol Shorts Research) 160 pp. 2025:3 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <736-1087>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4292-8 hard ¥12,870.- (税込) GB￡ 45.00

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 'Banal warfare' describes the ways in which the vision of the city - ridden with conflicts, terrorist attacks and disease - infuses everyday urban life, to the point of becoming invisible. This book analyses the impact of framing public emergencies and violences in Paris and Brussels as acts of war and how this normalizes militarism within urban contexts traditionally viewed as "non-war zones". It addresses how this process shapes urban governance agendas, constructs the notion of the "enemy within" and conditions everyday lives. From lockdowns to states of emergency, the book considers urban citizens' agency and resistance, and how to re-think notions of urban peace.

Lakusic, Stjepan / Pavicic, Jurica et al. (eds.), The Reimagining of Urban Spaces: A Journey Through Post-Industrial Cityscapes. (Applied Innovation and Technology Management) 207 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-1088>
ISBN 978-3-031-75648-1 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

Over the last decades waves of deindustrialization have swept across European countries leaving potential consequences across cities, regions, and countries. Once prosperous and advancing communities have suddenly found themselves in need to search for new development models and ways to secure their social sustainability and urban functioning. This book explores the future of cities and regions in a post-industrial world. In particular, it looks at the socio-spatial implications of industrial transformation on urban change from demographic, educational, and environmental perspective; assesses potential ways move urban landscapes forward in a post-industrial society; and looks for methods of promoting environmental sustainability in a post-industrial landscape. Featuring insights and findings from research and experiences of The European University of Cities in Post-Industrial Transition (UNIC) member universities, this book is not only beneficial for academic and scholars, but also provides practical guidance to policy makers and practitioners.

Power, Anne, Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building Homes, Communities, and Neighbourhoods. (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy) 176 pp. 2025:3 (Policy Pr., UK) <736-1090>
ISBN 978-1-4473-5753-7 hard ¥22,876.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99

Social housing continues to decline as existing tenanted homes are sold to their occupiers and run-down council estates are demolished. Demonstrating the value of the 'Housing Plus' approach -investment beyond "bricks and mortar" - this book outlines the role social landlords can play in tackling community problems. By investing in estate renewal, helping to house the vulnerable, offering a wide range of tenures and encouraging community housing, this approach builds links between housing design and a wider social value agenda. With the voices of tenants and frontline staff at the forefront, Anne Power demonstrates how policy and practice can shift the bias against social housing in favour of its re-expansion.