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

国際的意思決定における都市－国際法・国際関係への欧州の都市の影響
Szpak, Agnieszka / Gawlowski, R. / Modrzynska, J. et al., Cities in International Decision-Making: The Impact of European Cities on International Law and Relations. 204 pp. 2025:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <737-771>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4965-4 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

With illustrative case studies on international organizations and transnational city networks across Europe, this innovative book argues that cities are becoming more active participants in international law-making and challenging the previously dominant nation-state approach of recent history.Chapters explore key literature and legal regulations surrounding cities, providing the latest information on their international normative activities. This book includes multiple interviews conducted with the official representatives of cities and various international institutions, such as UN-Habitat, the EU Committee of the Regions, and the Congress for Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. The authors investigate how, despite their strong role in international relations and international law implementation, the importance of cities has still not been adequately reflected in the structures of the Council of Europe, the EU and the UN. Ultimately, the book finds that cities have more impact on policy-making than on decision-making processes.Cities in International Decision-Making is a rich resource for academics and students of international relations, political science, international law and urban studies. It is also a beneficial read for city authorities, policy-makers, external experts and think-tank analysts.

都市のブランディング
Deffner, Alex / Kavaratzis, Mihalis (eds.), City Branding: Concepts and Tools for Reputation Management and Tourism Development. 222 pp. 2025:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <737-522>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4753-7 hard ¥30,030.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This prescient book explores the relationship between city branding, reputation management and tourism development through a comprehensive collection of propositions to re-examine and refine city branding tools and ideas.Enhancing the existing literature and with contributions from cities across four continents, chapters set out how city branding relates to urban identity and image, city reputation and sustainable tourism development. Illustrating how city branding can contribute towards a more sustainable future for cities, the book transcends disciplinary boundaries and uses methodological propositions to provide an innovative assessment of the current status of reputation management and tourism development. Showcasing new understandings of tools and conceptualizations, this forward-thinking book develops this field of study in both theory and practice.City Branding is an excellent resource not only for scholars of urban studies and tourism management but also for those studying local development, planning and place management. Practitioners in local authorities will also find the examples and practices examined informative as lessons for the future.

戦略的都市ブランディング－アジアの都市からの洞察
Taecharungroj, Viriya, Strategic City Branding: Insights from Asian Cities. 114 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <737-549>
ISBN 978-1-032-95898-9 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

City branding is crucial for the development of cities. Strategic City Branding: Insights from Asian Cities brings together concepts, case studies, and strategic management tools for effective city branding. This book demonstrates how cities can leverage their unique characteristics to build an appealing brand and attract tourists, residents, and investors.The book presents a structured approach to city branding, featuring 24 concise case studies from various Asian cities. Readers will learn about the organisation of city branding efforts, city brand identities and visions, and the brand positioning process. It covers comprehensive execution strategies and methods for evaluating branding success. Each chapter offers conceptual tools for applying these ideas in practice, and the Asian case studies provide real-world insights into city branding.Strategic City Branding: Insights from Asian Cities is an essential resource for city branding and marketing practitioners, postgraduate students beginning their research, and undergraduate students new to the topic. This book delivers both an academic foundation and practical tools, equipping readers with the knowledge needed to create strong city brands.

Sharma, Satish K. / Lata Pathak, Suman, Urbanization, Population and Environment. 307 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <737-312>
ISBN 978-981-9760-19-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The volume explores the intricate relationship between urbanization, population dynamics, and the environment in the western Himalayas from a historical perspective. It challenges the conventional link that urban development is solely tied to population growth, unveiling the influence of political and economic elites. Through empirical analysis within a historical context, the study unveils the significance of cantonment towns, military consolidation, and legislative control in driving urban growth. While it leads to population surges, economic activities, and improvements in transportation and communication, it also exposes adverse effects like the overuse of forest resources, disrupting the balance between humans and nature, and leading to ecological imbalances and fatalities. This volume opens new avenues for research on rivers, biodiversity, geopolitics, socio-cultural aspects, and the economy but also offers valuable insights for national and international academia.

Shaban, Abdul (ed.), Digital Geographies - Theory, Space, and Communities: A Machine-Generated Literature Review. 1031 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <737-335>
ISBN 978-981-9747-33-7 hard ¥42,368.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, showcases how digital technologies are having deep transformative impacts on geographies and temporalities of social, political, economic, and personal lives. They are altering perceptions and physicality of space and time. They are giving birth to digital communities and societies where distance remains of little significance. Virtual spaces and ICT have disrupted state sovereignties, often liquidating their physical national boundaries. The rise of the digital economy shows that new important raw materials for the future are information rather than coal, oil, and minerals. Digitalisation is also leading to several contradictory processes of democratisation, rising welfare of the citizens, as well as surveillance, peripheralisation and exclusion. States are taking pride in digitalising their services to the citizens, with massive consequences on the welfare of those facing digital divides. As a departure to, and in addition to, the usual understanding of digitalisation, society, and space, the present volume engages with some of the critical questions while reviewing existing literature: What are the space relations of digital technologies? What are the forms and consequences of changing physical space-human relations to digital-space-human relations? How is the sense of time and space changing with pervasive performatives of 'in real-time' and 'virtual realities' or with perceptible or portable spaces? In what ways does digitalisation relate to knowledge and power? Why and how must we theorise the digitalisation-led transformative processes of sociality, materiality and their spatialities? The book will be useful for teachers, researchers, and students engaged in this new area of digital geography, especially in social science and its subfields of sociology, economics, political sciences, anthropology, psychology, development studies, policy studies, social work, urban studies, and planning. For the full picture, the volume can be read in combination with its companion volume on 'Digital Geographies - Urbanisation, Economy and Modelling'.

Snyder, Robert W., When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers. 352 pp. 2025:3 (Three Hills, US) <737-396>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8038-7 paper ¥4,409.- (税込) US$ 19.95

In When the City Stopped, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city. New Yorkers were "alone together," separated by the protective measures of social distancing and the fundamental inequalities of life and work in New York City. Through their personal accounts, we see that while many worked from home, others knowingly exposed themselves to the dangers of the pandemic as they drove buses, ran subways, answered 911 calls, tended to the sick, and made and delivered meals. Snyder build bridges of knowledge and empathy between those who bore dangerous burdens and those who lived in relative safety. The story is told through the words of health care workers, grocery clerks, transit workers, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems, first-person narratives, and interviews. When the City Stopped preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the pandemic.

公共空間とSDGs
Dolley, Joanne / Hardy, Keiran / Matthews, Tony (eds.), Public Space and the Sustainable Development Goals: Inclusion, Safety, Culture and Nature. (Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals) 176 pp. 2025:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <737-211>
ISBN 978-1-0353-2240-4 hard ¥30,030.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

As the world strives to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, this book deftly examines the capacity and potential of public space design to tackle key issues related to climate change, violence, safety, law, cultural and gender inclusivity as well as creative and community engagement.Presenting empirical and theoretical insights from urban planners, criminologists, disability advocates, geographers and artists, Public Space and the Sustainable Development Goals highlights the increased demand for high quality public open spaces for diverse populations. It answers the pivotal question of how to transform public spaces into safe, vibrant, and inclusive places that are resilient to contemporary social and environmental pressures. Expert contributors explore solutions for improving public space planning, design and policy with a focus on UN SDG 11, Target 7.This timely book is an essential guide for scholars of geography, urban design, sociology and criminology. It is also a useful informative resource for practitioners of urban planning and landscape architecture.

Svensson, Patrik, Humane Infrastructures. (metaLABprojects) 336 pp. 2025:4 (MIT Pr., US) <737-1294>
ISBN 978-0-262-54212-8 paper ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Legg, Stephen, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities. (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) 320 pp. 2025:3 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <737-1094>
ISBN 978-0-8203-6784-2 hard ¥26,519.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-6785-9 paper ¥7,726.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain's empire in India. It pioneers a spatial governmentality analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and hidden spaces of anticolonial parrhesia, or courageous speech and actions, in the two decades before independence in 1947. Reading across imperial and nationalist archives, newspapers, memoirs, oral histories, and interviews, Stephen Legg exposes subaltern geographies and struggles across both the new and old cities, which have traditionally been neglected in favor of the elite spaces of New Delhi.Presenting the dual cities as one interconnected political landscape, Legg studies Indian National Congress efforts to mobilize and marshal support between the mass movements of Civil Disobedience (1930-34) and Quit India (1942-43). The book's six chapters compare the two movements in terms of their public spaces of nonviolent anticolonialism, their problematization by violence, and their legacies.This bottom-up analysis, focused on the streets, bazaars, neighborhoods, homes, and undergrounds of the two cities, foregrounds the significance of physical and political space; it highlights the pioneering role of women in crafting these spaces; and it exposes the microtechniques that Congress used to encourage Gandhi's nonviolence and to tolerate its testing in the face of the rising popularity of the radical left.Legg's rereading of Michel Foucault's final lectures on parrhesia produces a bold new approach to questions of postcolonialism, resistance, and South Asian governmentalities. This allows anticolonialism to be read not as an outside but as a coherent and bottom-up project of self-transformation and space making that was elite coordinated but whose sovereignty lay with a disobedient and not always nonviolent public. This book provides an innovative and restive historical geography of spaces of anticolonialism in the capital of contemporary India's 1.4 billion people.

Wehrmann, Dorothea / Luszczuk, M. et al., Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic. (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development) 248 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <737-1258>
ISBN 978-1-032-25459-3 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnational cooperation in the region. It examines to what extent there is transnational cooperation between urban areas in remote locations, and how it can be enhanced to better align with global sustainable development policies to successfully implement goals such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement. Based on field research in seven cities in the European Arctic, Rovaniemi, Kolari, Nuuk, Akureyri, Tromso, Kiruna and Lulea, the authors explain why approaches to sustainable urban development differ between geographies, how policies relate to other local and global strategies, and to what degree the European Arctic is normative for remote regions at large. The book contributes to important conceptual debates on local governance and transnational cooperation by examining the benefits and potential issues of applying theoretical models of multi-actor engagement and participation in isolated populations. It argues that the participation of local actors in decision processes may encourage a better harmonisation of sustainable urban development approaches in the European Arctic and will have a greater impact at the global level if aligned transnationally. This book will be relevant to researchers, social scientists, policymakers, practitioners and NGOs in the fields of global governance, sustainable development, sustainability research, and environmental studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

ビッグデータ、人工知能、都市ハンドブック
Broitman, Dani / Kopczewska, K. / Czamanski, D. (eds.), Handbook on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Cities. (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies) 368 pp. 2025:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <737-1279>
ISBN 978-1-80392-804-3 hard ¥55,770.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00

This pioneering Handbook outlines the ways in which big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping cities. Leading scholars analyze how innovative computational methods can make use of the vast amounts of data available to gain new insights into urban life, inform policy, and drive innovation.Chapters delve into specific applications of big data and AI including mobility, tourism, and land use, drawing on case studies from diverse urban environments across Europe and North America. Expert authors evaluate future opportunities for leveraging these technologies, addressing the integration of machine learning into spatial econometric models, the use of self-organizing maps to study demographic shifts, and novel approaches to simulating contagion patterns during pandemics. Ultimately, the Handbook emphasizes the potential of AI to contribute to social good.Academics and students in human geography, regional and urban studies, economics, sociology, and management will benefit from this multidisciplinary and comprehensive Handbook. Combining theoretical insights with practical applications, it is also a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners interested in the ongoing digital transformation of urban spaces.

Celik Rappas, Ipek A., Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location. 180 pp. 2025:3 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1280>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7997-8 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-7998-5 paper ¥6,399.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Filming in European Cities explores the effort behind creating screen production locations. Ipek A. Celik Rappas accounts the rising demand for original and affordable locations for screen projects due to the growth of streaming platforms. As a result, screen professionals are repeatedly tasked with chores such as transforming a former factory in Istanbul to resemble a war zone in Aleppo, or finding a London street that evokes Barcelona. Celik Rappas highlights the pivotal role crew members play in transforming cities and locations into functional screen settings. Examining five European media capitals-Athens, Belfast, Berlin, Istanbul, and Paris-the book delves into the overlooked aspects of location-related screen labor and its ability to generate production value. Filming in European Cities demonstrates that in its perpetual quest for authentic filming locations, the screen industry extracts value from cities and neighborhoods, their marginalized residents, and screen labor, enriching itself through this triple exploitation.

Dovey, Kim / Recio, Redento B., The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages. 146 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1283>
ISBN 978-981-9781-19-5 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and livelihoods of such cities. 'Inventraset' is a concept that shows how informal street vending, transport and settlement are fundamentally integrated with each other and the more formal city. Street vending and transport provide crucial forms of employment and mobility, while informal settlement is the key source of affordable and adaptable housing. Informal urbanism is not ideal but it is the way such cities work; it is often hidden or camouflaged within the ideal of a clean, green and modern city to which middle-classes and elites aspire. Through comparative studies, with a focus on Manila and Jakarta, the book maps and analyzes how such cities work through alliances and synergies between vending, transport and settlement - inventraset assemblages are inventive and transgressive, yet settled.

Ekman, Peter, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism. 384 pp. 2024:11 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1284>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7838-4 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-7839-1 paper ¥8,610.- (税込) US$ 38.95

Timing the Future Metropolis-an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science-explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT. Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela-Ciudad Guayana-the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come-and the consequences of deciding not to.

Humphris, Rachel, Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance. (Anthropology of Policy) 184 pp. 2025:4 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <737-1285>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4221-8 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4239-3 paper ¥6,190.- (税込) US$ 28.00

From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement-municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement-has been a powerful and controversial side of progressive migration policy reform. While some migration activists view sanctuary city policy as the most important aspect of their work, others see it as actively impairing efforts in the fight for migrant rights. In Making Sanctuary Cities, Rachel Humphris provides a new understanding of how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities and what political potentials are opened (and closed) by this designation. Through long-term fieldwork across the sanctuary cities of San Francisco, Sheffield, and Toronto-three of the first municipalities to adopt this designation in their respective countries-Humphris investigates the complexity of sanctuary city policy. By capturing the wide-ranging meanings and practices of sanctuary in comparative context, Humphris uncovers how liberal citizenship is undermined by the very thing that makes it worth investing in-the promise of equality. Attending to the tensions inherent in sanctuary policy, this book opens vital questions about the ways governing systems can extinguish political ideals, and how communities choose to live and organize to fight for a better world.

Loukaki, Argyro (ed.), The Monumental. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 308 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1287>
ISBN 978-1-032-85749-7 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography. The contributors are specialists in geography, architectural theory and history, prehistoric, Greek and Roman archaeology, modern art, Byzantine studies, landscape theory and heritage reception. Against the global climate of flux and uncertainty in the present turbulent world, the durability of monuments as "urban permanences" emerges as one of the few remaining spatial and mental anchorages. As such it is needed, maintained, enhanced, imitated, landscaped and even invented. In particular, the monumental as a spatial and aesthetic phenomenon of perpetual importance has recently acquired major new meanings. It now emerges as a key political, spatial, aesthetic, symbolic, architectural and archaeological manifestation or entity, open to constantly new, even contradictory forms and expressions.This collection addresses the urgent need for relevant research. It breaks new ground by posing fresh questions on the ontology, temporality, purpose, politics, scale, place, contestations and aesthetics of and around the monumental, from prehistoric time to the present, as well as in both Eastern and Western geographies. Monuments are explored as bearers of the urban majestic, extraordinary and sublime. The Monumental poses questions about changing perceptions, the evocative power of representation, identity construction, ideology and symbolism, the vital necessity for a communicative and active public space around monuments, imitation processes across geographical space-time, as well as the powers that construct, deconstruct or identify the monumental but also the anti-monumental as such. Geographies of reference are the European space, the United States and Asia. Wide-ranging theorizations alternate with in-depth analyses of paradigmatic cases. Conventional as well as alternative forms of the monumental in the present shifting world are also pursued.The Monumental is of great value and interest to scholars, students and professionals in the fields of architectural theory, history and design, archaeology, art theory and history, Byzantine studies, restoration, urban design and planning, human, urban and cultural geography, cultural studies, social anthropology, Asian studies, as well as those in wider subdisciplines.

Marcus, Lars, Measures and Meanings of Spatial Capital: Contributions to a Theory of Land. 496 pp. 2025:2 (MIT Pr., US) <737-1288>
ISBN 978-0-262-55130-4 paper ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Pattanaik, Bikram, Urban Development and Planning: An Introduction. 430 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1289>
ISBN 978-1-032-89108-8 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-89109-5 paper ¥10,578.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book details the most contemporary concerns related to urban development, governance and planning, as well as the challenges to urban administration. It analyses the policies and programs adopted by both high-income and lower-middle income countries to achieve sustainable urbanization, and their application and treatment to help students get a holistic, practical perspective of the issues at hand.This volume elucidates urban development theories and approaches, coupled with urban planning, local government finance, urban management, and urban governance. It also discusses urban issues and challenges such as education, health, waste management, land use planning, housing, and transport. Critical concerns related to urban water bodies, open spaces, urban heritage and smart cities and urban future are similarly addressed.This book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers of urban planning and architecture, urban sociology, economics, geography, environmental science, and public administration. It shall also be useful to NGOs, parastatal bodies and trainers of urban planning and development. Planners, policy makers, functionaries and elected representatives of urban local bodies may also use this as a capacity building instrument.

Pisarevskaya, Asya / Scholten, Peter, Cities of Migration: Understanding the diversity of urban diversities in Europe. (IMISCOE Research Series) 216 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <737-1290>
ISBN 978-3-031-72210-3 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book develops a typology of cities by exploring how current levels of migration-related diversity and segregation relate to three groups of factors: international mobilities, inequalities and political-institutional aspects of local governance. Based on both quantitative and qualitative data from 16 cities in four European countries (France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Italy), the book compares the cities and uses a method of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. It demonstrates the shared contingencies of factors among the cities within each type and the crucial differences between the types of localities, and offers a more differentiated, holistic understanding of migration-related diversity configurations through the five conceptualised types: (1) Superdiverse cities, (2) Postindustrial diverse cities. (3) Middle class diverse cities, (4) Divided cities, and (5) Marginal migration cities. As such, the book is a valuable read to all those who would like to learn more about urban migration-related diversity and how it is formed and governed.