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

Auyero, Javier / Servian, Sofia, Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires. 216 pp. 2025:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <738-962>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2829-1 hard ¥22,097.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3150-5 paper ¥5,736.- (税込) US$ 25.95

In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofia Servian detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina's urban poor rely on to survive. Blending three years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with personal narratives of Servian's experience growing up and living in a squatter settlement, the authors examine how Argentina's squatter communities contend with violence and secure necessities like food, land, and housing despite inadequate state support and protection. Auyero and Servian recount the bricolage of tactics these individuals employ to make ends meet such as relying on highly exploitative jobs, patronage, and networks of reciprocal exchange that can involve illicit activities. Analyzing how these survival strategies intersect with class, gender, and political domination, the authors present a nuanced account of marginality in Argentinian squatter settlements while maintaining a deeply human portrait of survival and persistence.

Chatterjee, Uday / Bhunia, A. / Gupta, J. et al. (eds.), Sustainability and Urban Quality of Life: Research, Policy and Practice. 520 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-984>
ISBN 978-1-032-55475-4 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life. It looks at quality of life within urban cities analysing amenities, infrastructure and assets while also bringing in the discourse around scarcity, disparity, accessibility, sustainability, equity, and well-being.Organized into four major parts, the book reflects on the interconnections between theories and practice and through a multi-disciplinary approach focuses on the aspects of urban environment and planning that makes cities inclusive, safe, resilient, smart, and sustainable. This book highlights the enormous strain on urban areas due to severe scarcity of civic systems and provides an in-depth look into urban concerns and pressing challenges from a global perspective, as well as many planning approaches to solving these problems.This book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers working in the field of urban studies, remote sensing and GIS, planning and sustainability, sustainable development, urban geography, development geography and population geography. This book would also be an invaluable companion to thought leaders, policy makers and industry and other professionals working in the field of urban planning and human development.

Nowak, Maciej J (ed.), The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation: Planning Systems, Policies and Instruments. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 206 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-998>
ISBN 978-1-032-64536-0 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.The book identifies how, in each case, spatial planning instruments can influence the protection of green spaces, and whether - and if so how - they are being adapted in response to actual and expected effects from climate change. In doing so, the institutional frameworks of each country analysed are first presented. This provides the basis for discussing the key problems occurring at the state (and city) level in responding to the challenges of climate change adaptation, especially for the protection of green spaces. In the individual chapters, the issues identified above will be analysed from the perspective of diverse countries: Australia, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, Brazil and Poland. The contributors in this edited collection will present how the indicated issue is identified in systems that are diverse in many respects. The book concludes by demonstrating how the relationship between climate change adaptation and spatial planning can be framed in a more universal way, taking into account the international case studies that have been presented. The book deals extensively with both climate change adaptation issues and comparisons of spatial planning systems.By focusing on a synthesis of these issues, this book will add significantly to the discussion, providing a new basis for theoretical and practical considerations. It will be of interest to researchers and students of spatial planning, public policy, environmental protection, climate protection and law, as well as professionals working in these areas.

Adey, Peter / Hannam, Kevin / Sheller, Mimi et al. (eds.), Pandemic (Im)mobilties. 156 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <738-249>
ISBN 978-1-032-75847-3 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths. Contributors examine how the pandemic intensified the existing and uneven ways that we move at multiple scales, from the mobilities of viruses to global planetary movements.As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or COVID-19 pandemic swept around the world, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt in the emergency, while others were drastically reorganized. Viral mobilities unleashed not just a disruption of human mobilities, but also a vast intensification of the existing and uneven ways that we move or don't move: such as in the contexts of tourism and international travel; in how mobilities are governed in cities, or through migration controls at and away from borders; in relation to climate change policies and transitions to net zero; in forms of transportation through which everyday life and work practices are undertaken and reproduced and, ultimately, in the way mobility is (re)valued and felt during and after a global crisis. Chapters in this book address the multiple issues generated by the pandemic and its relation to complex (im)mobilities and the ways they are governed and lived, at many scales, as well as deeper theoretical and methodological issues that arise, such as how to tell stories and visualise (im)mobilities of life under lockdown.The book was originally published as a special issue of the Mobilities journal.

Mankekar, Purnima / Gupta, Akhil, The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City. (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) 336 pp. 2025:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <738-255>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2832-1 hard ¥24,308.- (税込) US$ 109.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3153-6 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Jonek-Kowalska, Izabela / Wolniak, Radoslaw, Exclusion in Smart Cities: Assessment and Strategy for Strengthening Resilience. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 200 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-259>
ISBN 978-1-032-81460-5 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion.The book will consider the essence, scale and types of exclusion and include analysis of inclusiveness in practice in the assessment and activities of Smart Cities. The research assesses Smart City literature, with particular emphasis on criticism of the Smart City concept and exclusion generated in smart urban structures, critically analyses the principles and indicators used in international inclusive Smart City rankings, highlights case studies on best practices for preventing exclusions in Smart Cities, and uses trend analysis to assess the scale and intensity of exclusion threats.This book can be used as a compendium of knowledge about exclusions in Smart Cities by both researchers and students, as well as all urban stakeholders, in particular city decision-makers.

Alexandrescu, Filip / Powell, Ryan / Vilenica, Ana (eds.), Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 330 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-1014>
ISBN 978-1-032-58857-5 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.Through the application of new empirical material and novel theoretical syntheses that exceed conceptual binaries (East-West, North-South), the authors explore shifting contemporary experiences of marginality in various urban contexts in Eastern Europe (EE). The unique articulation between global processes - such as gentrification, financialization, racialization and spatialization - and the distinctive histories, contestations and dislocations that characterize EE cities calls for increasing scholarly attention. The volume explores new patterns and drivers of urban marginality and racialization, and at the same time connects these to wider problematics of "advanced capitalist" cities as well as to post-socialist and anti-colonial urbanisms. The fourteen chapters contribute to a more nuanced understanding of global urbanism that decentres dominant Anglophone conceptualisations. Contributions focus empirically and theoretically on Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.The volume is recommended for students and urban scholars in EE and beyond, but will also be of interest to activists involved in housing and urban justice as well as in broader struggles towards the anti-racist city.

Berry, Jess / Kalms, Nicole / Moore, Timothy et al. (eds.), Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities: Practices and Provocations. (Gender, Bodies and Transformation) 312 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-1016>
ISBN 978-1-032-91127-4 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This edited collection investigates gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment.Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities: Practices and Provocations centres intersectional gender-sensitive approaches to design in the urban environment as an integral strategy in combating spatial inequities.Through an investigation of design-led methods, project case studies, activist interventions, and processes of resistance and agency this volume offers new thinking and practical approaches to demonstrate how design might shift towards safer and more inclusive cities for women, gender-diverse people and LGBTIQ+ communities.This book will appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students of urbanism, design, planning, architecture and geography as well as government and non-profit organisations who are interested in gender and equality and can influence the future narratives of cities.

Goode, Charles Edward, The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 256 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-1018>
ISBN 978-1-032-67427-8 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok. Despite this, it is often argued that Green Belts contribute to wider inequitable outcomes in society.Focusing on the Green Belt in England, the book critically analyses the extent to which these policies and planning systems contribute to housing crises and examines how far they need to be reformed. With the central role of community engagement in many of the debates about housing crises, the book investigates the characteristics of popular and campaigner opposition to housebuilding alongside investigating the power relations and politics of planning systems. This timely research taps into important current policy debates in the UK surrounding urban nature, green infrastructure, and building on the 'grey belt'.The book is therefore of relevance and benefit to policymakers and politicians, to academics and students internationally from a range of fields interested in housing, community engagement, green infrastructure, strategic planning, power and politics, and conservation.

Hatuka, Tali / Brighenti, Andrea Mubi, A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing. 200 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-1019>
ISBN 978-1-032-55582-9 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-55583-6 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space. A 'new index' is proposed to reconstitute the promises and the predicaments of public space to better prepare for the contemporary challenges of post-pandemic, conflict-ridden society. Part I provides a theoretical introduction to the idea of public space and publicness, laying out the book's rationale; Part II offers a new index of terms, including affects, alignments, atmosphere, conviviality, diagrams, documenting, flow, and more; and Part III applies the proposed lexicon with a 'random walk' approach, inviting the reader to use the lens of nonlinear evolutionary dynamics as a means for envisioning the future of publicness. This book is the outcome of a conversation across disciplines-specifically, urban design and social theory-revolving around the recognition that public space is inherently fragile, messy, conflicted, and evolving. This book will be of interest to urban planners, architects, and urban designers, as well as human geographers, sociologists, political theorists, and those working in community development.

Khare, Anshuman / Beckman, Terry (eds.), Sustainable and Smart Cities: Governance, Economy and Society. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 254 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-1021>
ISBN 978-1-032-85487-8 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges modern cities face in the context of climate change and urban development. By integrating varied viewpoints, it delves into the concept of sustainable and smart cities and sheds light on the opportunities for innovative and effective solutions, underscoring the interconnected nature of urban challenges and the necessity of a holistic approach.Contributors present diverse perspectives and methodologies, including empirical studies, modelling, simulation, policy analysis, and case studies, to offer insights into innovative and effective solutions for urban sustainability challenges. Chapters are grouped according to themes of governance and management, economy, society, and technology. Topics covered include smart city governance models, the enabling role of managers in sustainability efforts, resilient infrastructure, homelessness, and smart technology implementations. The book also identifies research gaps and areas of uncertainty, which may guide future research.With contributions from researchers across Asia, Europe and North America, this book is a valuable resource for researchers in the areas of sustainable development, urban sustainability, and resilience research. It will also interest policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders working towards addressing climate change in urban areas.

Mirsafa, Masoumeh / de Oliveira, Fabiano Lemes, Nature-Based Solutions in Cities of the Global South. 186 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-1023>
ISBN 978-1-032-80127-8 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-80123-0 paper ¥10,213.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South. NBS are recognized as a key strategy for achieving sustainable development, and they are being implemented in a variety of sectors such as urban planning, agriculture, forestry, and water management. They offer a wide range of benefits, but there is a gap between research and practice across cities from the Global South. This book promotes implemented urban NBS projects in the Global South to help identify region-specific challenges and opportunities, and to develop more effective and equitable solutions. The presented case studies support resilient planning in the Global South and significantly inform urban debates in the Global North. This book offers pragmatic policy and planning recommendations, providing decision-makers with clear guidance on implementing NBS in urban settings and transforming knowledge into actionable strategies for sustainable and resilient urban development.

Scott, Mark / Sturzaker, John / Gallent, N. (eds.), Rural Planning Futures: Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland. (RTPI Library Series) 214 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-1025>
ISBN 978-1-032-72945-9 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-72154-5 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more resilient and sustainable outcomes. Rural places and planning have, for too long, been viewed as marginal to both the theory and practice of planning. However, rural places are central to addressing critical global challenges - from climate action, through nature recovery, energy transitions, and food security, to water quality - while also facing more localised conflicts around housing, the siting of infrastructure, and the challenge of sustaining local services. The policy response to these complex challenges has too often been fragmented, siloed, and fixated on the short-term. By illustrating how key 'rural capitals' are linked and integrated, this book argues for a reset of the rural planning narrative and for the urgent disruption of established ways of working. Using innovative case studies, the chapters detail how planning for rural places must be guided by the pursuit of social value rather than protecting private interests. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in planning, geography, rural studies, landscape studies, and regional studies.