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

Cheshmehzangi, Ali / Tang, Tian, China Under Construction: Shaping Cities Through Recent Urban Transformation. (Urban Sustainability) 265 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <741-921>
ISBN 978-981-9797-84-4 hard ¥39,453.- (税込) EUR 169.99

As a continuation of our award-winning book, 'China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality' and our recent book, '30 Years of Urban Change in China's 10 Core Cities', this book delves into China's recent progress in reshaping its cities through holistic urban transformation strategies. Building on our previous work, we expand our focus to explore the latest developments in urbanization, examining how recent strategies and policies have influenced cities and cityscapes across China and beyond. It is evident that China is reshaping its cities through a dynamic interplay of policy reforms, technological advancements, and creative planning. The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen a sharp increase in urbanization, with a particular focus on the development of smart, resilient, and sustainable cities. Through a thorough examination of case study examples that have undergone significant recent change, this book investigates how these goals are being achieved. 'China Under Construction: Shaping Cities through Recent Urban Transformation' offers a thorough overview of China's current urban transformation efforts, highlighting both the achievements and the ongoing challenges, through case studies and in-depth evaluations. We hope to provide insightful information about the real-world applications of urban strategies and their wider implications for China's future urban landscape by concentrating on ten selected cities. This extension of our earlier research emphasizes how critical it is to view urban transformation as a complex process influencing social dynamics, technology, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability, among other facets of city life and urbanization.

Gransow, Bettina, Migrants in Chinese Megacities: Producing Transient Urban Spaces in the Pearl River Delta. 250 pp. 2025:4 (World Scientific, SI) <741-926>
ISBN 978-981-12-7567-8 hard ¥18,876.- (税込) US$ 88.00

This book looks beyond the conceptualization of urban futures that place the megacity and its slums at the center to examine how diverse groups of migrants (primarily internal Chinese) are producing transient (mega-) urban spaces and impacting the urbanization process. From 2010 to 2012, the author conducted over 120 qualitative interviews with migrants of all categories - voluntary and involuntary, blue collar and white collar, domestic and international, and migrant groups of high risk. The research was administered in the Pearl River Delta (Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan) as part of a larger research program on informal dynamics of megacity development funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The study contributes to the current debates on restricting or encouraging migration to Chinese megacities.

Liu, Hui, Managing Urban River Ecosystems for Achieving Regional Sustainability in the Pearl River Delta Region. (Urban Sustainability) 160 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <741-936>
ISBN 978-981-9604-69-2 hard ¥34,811.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book provides a systematic understanding of urban river management from the perspective of ecosystem health in the Pearl River Delta region of China, where rapid socio-economic development happens together with exploitation and pollution of the natural environment. Urban rivers, which used to support navigation and provide water resources to humans, now suffer from various kinds of ecosystem degradation and thus create threats to regional sustainability. This book treats the urban river as an ecosystem which closely relates to and interacts with humans and defines urban river ecosystem health as a requirement at three levels: sensorial fitness, living water, and affinity with humans, which emphasizes more on the human-oriented needs. The evolution processes of urban river ecosystem health protection can generally be divided into four phases, demonstrating the relationships between human activities and UREH status as simple balance, uncontrolled imbalance, continuous interlocking, and stable harmony. The relationships between typical urban rivers and humans in the Pearl River Delta region, China, are then analyzed on both regional and local scales and from lateral, time-longitudinal, and spatial dimensions. Intensive human activities, together with the intrinsic complex and high-density river network, result in deteriorating water quality, changing hydrological conditions, and damaging the river ecosystem in this region. From the perspective of political ecology, various actors in urban river management include governmental agencies, business, multilateral institutions, ENGOs, and grassroots actors, whose unequal power relations vary over time and space, causing conflicts as well as coordination. Especially, different governmental agencies are engaged, resulting into overlap and gap among their functions as well as spatial discrepancy. River Chief System, as a new practice of urban river management, has strengthened the collaboration effect and got success in river pollution control. The spatial scale effect of human activities on urban river water quality is examined, implying the necessity of adopting a unified management strategy at the buffer zone scale to protect and restore urban river ecosystem health. The target audience of this book includes postgraduate students and researchers who have research interests in, as well as government officers, whose routine is related to water management.

Akhtar, Rakib, Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the Making of an Indian Smart City. 235 pp. 2025:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <741-966>
ISBN 978-1-009-60549-6 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development. Globally, the rise of right-wing nationalism has progressively shaped urbanization projects, also furthering political agendas. The book demonstrates how state institutions are both influenced by and contribute to the intricate linkages between these two ideologies at various levels of government. It shows how neoliberalism and Hindutva support each other, strengthening both ideologies within the state and society. The book highlights the disagreements between the ideologies' foundational principles and their practical applications, showcasing the strategic maneuvers that help these ideologies gain traction within political and governmental institutions. By investigating these dynamics, the book offers understandings into the intricacies of modern governance shaped by neoliberalism and nationalism.

都市と犯罪ハンドブック
Oberwittler, Dietrich / Wickes, Rebecca (eds.), Handbook on Cities and Crime. 528 pp. 2025:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-668>
ISBN 978-1-80037-570-3 hard ¥64,768.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

With insightful contributions from eminent scholars in the field, this multidisciplinary Handbook provides an authoritative overview of scholarship on cities and crime. It discusses contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to urban crime research, as well as its practical implications and psychological impacts. Synthesizing a wealth of international research, chapters cover aspects of urban crime ranging from immigration, disasters and gentrification, to more specific challenges such as adolescent delinquency, gangs and hate crime. Highlighting the diversity of crime in cities, the Handbook emphasises the need to broaden perspectives beyond those usually observed in the Global North. Expert authors evaluate future avenues for preventing and controlling crime in cities, including alternative approaches to policing, digital surveillance and smart cities. Incisive and forward-looking, the Handbook on Cities and Crime is a vital read for academics and students in criminology, sociology, human geography and urban studies. Scholars and practitioners in fields such as housing, policing and ethnography will also benefit greatly from its insights.

Weaver, Timothy P. R., Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City. (Political Lessons from American Cities) 122 pp. 2025:3 (Temple U. Pr., US) <741-670>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2562-1 hard ¥12,762.- (税込) US$ 59.50 *
ISBN 978-1-4399-2563-8 paper ¥4,279.- (税込) US$ 19.95

Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"-conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism-emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the intercurrent impact of these orders has created a constant battle for power. Weaver brings these clashes to the fore by showing how New York City politics has been shaped by these conflicting orders. He examines the transformation of the city's political economy in the aftermath of the 1975 fiscal crisis through neoliberal real estate development and privatization, the conservative rise of law-and-order politics in the 1970s to 1990s, and the efforts of the city's egalitarians to respond to each of these shifts through social movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter.Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City belies glib assumptions about the city's liberal character. Weaver reveals the metropolis not as a homogenous political whole, but as a site in which the victories and defeats of rival political forces change the terms of local citizenship for the millions of residents who call the city home. In the series Political Lessons from American Cities

都市及びプレイス・ブランディング百科事典
Oliveira, Eduardo / Sevin, Efe / Bjoerner, Emma (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of City and Place Branding. (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences) 544 pp. 2025:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-7>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1963-3 hard ¥61,952.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00

This Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field of city and place branding. Authored by nearly 150 experts from across the globe, it covers a wide variety of disciplines, methodologies and perspectives, highlighting cutting-edge developments and exploring avenues for future research.Entries discuss the complexities and opportunities surrounding city and place branding, delving into topics ranging from artificial intelligence and immersive digital experiences to integrated marketing communication and the interplay of politics and culture. Emphazising the growing role of sustainability and responsible tourism, contributing authors underscore the potential of place branding in addressing ongoing social and environmental challenges.Key Features:Over 100 entries written by leading scholars and practitionersCombines detailed theoretical discussions with case studies, field research and practical applicationsExpands the boundaries of the field beyond the traditional focus on cities, with entries examining the branding of clusters, destinations, islands and rural areasThis interdisciplinary Encyclopedia is a vital resource for students and scholars of marketing, tourism, human geography and planning. Its recommendations will also benefit policymakers and practitioners looking to deepen their understanding of city and place branding.

移民、COVID-19、都市研究ハンドブック
Rajan, S. Irudaya (ed.), Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities. 656 pp. 2025:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-366>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0122-5 hard ¥71,808.- (税込) GB￡ 255.00

This incisive Handbook explores the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant populations such as international students, refugees, undocumented migrants and informal urban workers. It examines how migration and urbanization have been reshaped by the pandemic and emphasizes the pivotal role of governments and cities in crisis management.Expert authors discuss how the pandemic has disproportionately affected migrant communities, particularly those in densely populated urban areas, by exacerbating existing social and economic inequalities and obstructing access to basic amenities. They analyze detailed case studies on different global responses to reduced mobility, such as the effect of containment measures on Venezuelan migrants in urban Ecuador and the impact of the pandemic on internal migration in Iran. This Handbook demonstrates the importance of resilience and preparedness in urban governance, advocating for proactive policies to implement public health measures, collaborate with international organizations in assisting migrant populations and deal with potential future crises.Students and scholars of regional and urban economics, migration and sustainable cities and communities will benefit from this highly informative Handbook. It is also a crucial resource for academics studying health policy and economics, as well as practitioners and policymakers in migration, urbanization and crisis management.

Klein, Ricardo / Bruce, Caitlin, Creative Cities, Tourism and Street Art in a Global Frame: The City as Discovery. (Sociology of the Arts) 275 pp. 2025:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-504>
ISBN 978-3-031-76373-1 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the use of street art tourism in eight cities: Barcelona, Paris, Porto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montevideo, Bogota and Buenos Aires. While street art and graffiti are perpetually in the process of being discovered by scholars and cultural programmers as a practice full of potential, these contributions offer context and grounding and ask how, in a global setting, such art is used in tandem with tourism practices to interpret, codify, and make value out of space through institutional and community networks.

Seetharam Sridhar, Kala, Indian Cities or Suburbs?: Trends and Causes of Suburbanization. 352 pp. 2025:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <741-310>
ISBN 978-0-19-895811-6 hard ¥33,510.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

Despite the focus on urbanization as an important theme, the suburbanization of India has received relatively less attention. Indian Cities or Suburbs? is the first comprehensive work on suburbanization in India, exploring its complex dynamics in Indian cities. It addresses critical research questions regarding the suburbanization of individuals, households, and employment, examining regional variations, contributing factors, and resultant impacts. Utilizing granular data from the Global Human Settlements Layer (GHSL) at the sub-kilometre grid level for a hundred Indian cities, Kala demonstrates the applicability of the downward-sloping population density function to India's urban context. The findings reveal that as of 2015, India's population was predominantly suburban (82%) compared to urban (33%). Southern and urbanized states exhibit greater sprawl relative to the national average, whereas slow-growing states are more compact. Employment decentralization surpasses population suburbanization, with half of all jobs concentrated within a five-kilometre radius of the urban core. The book also underscores the negative environmental impacts of sprawl, including challenges in the provision of essential services such as water supply, healthcare, education, and air quality maintenance.

Portnov, Boris A., Environment, Place, and Growth: City Characteristics and Location Choice. 256 pp. 2025:7 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-1034>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3187-1 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

都市計画の景観研究研究アジェンダ
Qvistroem, Mattias (ed.), A Research Agenda for Landscape Studies of Planning. (Elgar Research Agendas) 224 pp. 2025:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-1035>
ISBN 978-1-80392-969-9 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda explores the complex and contested role that landscape plays in planning. It promotes theoretically driven, pluralistic research to enrich understanding of the landscape-planning interplay, examining how the broader discipline of landscape studies can complement and critique the dominant field of landscape science.An expert, multidisciplinary and international team of authors discuss the centrality of landscape in modern socio-environmental conflicts and advocate for landscape to be situated and studied as a matter of concern in planning. Using innovative case studies, such as the attempts to master landscapes to defend against flooding in New Orleans and post-fire landscapes in Sweden, they illustrate the importance of studying this area in an 'undisciplined' manner beyond the limits of contemporary academic discourse. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how a broader and more interdisciplinary approach to landscape studies can help to conceptualize current landscape issues and conflicts as well as identifying future solutions.Students and scholars of landscape studies and environmental and landscape planning will greatly benefit from this pioneering Research Agenda. It is also a key resource for those studying architecture and human geography.

Altrock, Uwe / Kurth, Detlef (eds.), Urban Regeneration in Europe: Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2024/25. (Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung) 560 pp. 2024 (Springer VS, GW) <741-1049>
ISBN 978-3-031-64772-7 paper ¥23,206.- (税込) EUR 99.99

We understand urban regeneration as all efforts managed, funded or at least guided to some extent by public authorities that aim at improving, stabilizing or revitalizing existing neighborhoods. This comprises area-based strategies, improvements of public infrastructure and interventions into the physical structure of the built environment. Their strategies may be redevelopment, renewal, careful regeneration, socially integrative management and others. Those efforts aim at dealing with reurbanization trends recently challenged by new suburbanization due to overheated development, sharp increases in house prices and more and more professionals working from home. The major objective of the book is to give an overview of the variety of approaches applied in European countries. Therefore, it takes a particular look at the "systems" of urban regeneration that build upon an interplay of specific legal frameworks, policies, public funding schemes, physical planning tools, partnerships and governance arrangements applied with the intention of solving "urban problems". For this purpose, chapters present case studies of those national or regional systems or outstanding examples of long-term efforts by major cities.

オリンピックの選手村と都市開発
della Sala, Valerio, Olympic Villages and Urban Development: Analysis of Spatial Models and Geographic Transformations. 280 pp. 2024:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <741-1051>
ISBN 978-1-80374-294-6 paper ¥17,989.- (税込) SFR 74.00

This book proposes an innovative analysis of Olympic urban planning in general, and of Olympic Villages in particular, which will both consolidate the field of study that Olympic urban planning represents and offer a helpful synopsis about the future construction of new Olympic Villages in the coming decades. The work aims to disseminate knowledge and propose new models of Olympic Village management in the post-Olympic period.

Edelenbos, Jurian / Boonstra, Beitske (eds.), Reflexive Urban Governance: Critically Engaging with Urban Policies. 256 pp. 2025:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-1052>
ISBN 978-1-80392-733-6 hard ¥29,568.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This innovative book sets out the concept and potential of reflexive urban governance. It argues that combining the practices of urban governance with continuous reflexivity on the assumptions underlying urban policies allows stakeholders to develop collaborative problem-solving capacity and to learn from the successes, failures and outcomes of policy interventions.Identifying the thematic triggers for reflexivity; others, events, places, methods and tools, and attitudes; this book critically discusses the unintended outcomes of urban governance, such as inequality and injustice. Expert authors expand on the political associations and future directions of the use of city labels, such as healthy cities, resilient cities and sustainable cities. Chapters cover the opportunities and challenges faced when organizing reflexivity in urban governance, especially when attempting to employ consistent reflexivity traditions in existing political-administrative structures. Ultimately, this book develops the necessary building blocks and stepping stones to incorporate reflexive theory and practice into urban governance processes.Reflexive Urban Governance is an essential read for students and scholars of critical urban studies and urban governance. It will also be of benefit to urban professionals with an interest in the potential for reflexivity in their daily practices.

都市の持続可能性のための計画
Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene / Galland, Daniel et al. (eds.), Planning for Urban Sustainability: Doctrines, Disciplines, and Practices. 224 pp. 2025:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <741-1053>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4747-6 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Kinney, Rebecca Jo, Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt. (Asian American History and Culture) 204 pp. 2025:4 (Temple U. Pr., US) <741-1055>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2475-4 hard ¥21,342.- (税込) US$ 99.50
ISBN 978-1-4399-2476-1 paper ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to the present, Rebecca Jo Kinney relates the history of Asian Americans' lived experiences, community formation, and their role in urban development and change in the Midwest - a region whose scholarly and popular literature often overlooks their population.

不平等の形態とガバナンスの正当性　第1巻
Pardo, Italo / Prato, Giuliana B. (eds.), Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance: Volume One. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 260 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-1060>
ISBN 978-3-031-78606-8 hard ¥34,811.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings. This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different forms of inequality and sheds light on the major forces that combine to create inequalities. Ethnography also helps to identify the dynamics that undergird the principle of freedom of thought and of action-a key principle, that is, of associated life in a democracy-and recognize empirically that these dynamics not only protect difference but increase it, for they underpin the freedom of the individual to use their talents to manage their lives and achieve their goals. This first volume in a two-part series focuses on legitimacy, governance, labour and urban change, and stereotypes and individual choice. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociocultural anthropology, sociology, politics, socio-legal studies, urban change, and education.

不平等の形態とガバナンスの正当性　第2巻
Pardo, Italo / Prato, Giuliana B. (eds.), Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance: Volume Two. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 236 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-1061>
ISBN 978-3-031-78693-8 hard ¥34,811.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings. This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically-based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different forms of inequality and sheds light on the major forces that combine to create inequalities. Ethnography also helps to identify the dynamics that undergird the principle of freedom of thought and of action - a key principle, that is, of associated life in a democracy - and recognize empirically that these dynamics not only protects difference but increase it, for they underpin the freedom of the individual to use their talents to manage their lives and achieve their goals. This second volume in a two-part series focuses on housing and residential patterns, development and urban regeneration, and education. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociocultural anthropology, sociology, politics, socio-legal studies, urban change, education.

Verhoeff, Nanna, Urban Screens: Situations, Practices, Concepts. (MediaMatters) 214 pp. 2024:12 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <741-1066>
ISBN 978-90-485-6362-3 paper ¥12,657.- (税込) GB￡ 44.95 *

This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a methodological approach and conceptual toolset for the critical examination, not only of what these screens do, but also of what we can do with them. The book contains a collection of theoretical concepts, developed through an in-depth examination of the material, relational, and performative aspects of a range of urban screens and screen practices. Its situational and practice-oriented approach focuses on the space between their material surfaces, the spectatorial situations they create, and how such screens situate us in relation to the surrounding social and cultural environment of the city. Offering concepts for a critical understanding of the wide variety of contemporary urban screen practices, the book's methodological proposal integrates close situational analyses and a historical-comparative approach for individual screens and screening situations in their role as part of a wider global contemporary screen culture.

Ye, Yu, Form Syntax for Quantitative Urban Morphology and Urban Design Analyses. (Urban Sustainability) 162 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <741-1068>
ISBN 978-981-9781-74-4 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book sets out to develop a quantitative-based analysis, Form Syntax, which is able to identify various prototypes of urban forms and their degrees of urbanity, thereby enhancing urban design practices. Form Syntax is a combination of emerging quantitative analysis tools with qualitative urban morphology tradition. It integrates a set of spatial analysis tools including Space Syntax, Spacematrix, and Mixed-use index (MXI) through GIS to measure the morphological features of streets, buildings and blocks, and functions. Furthermore, the Form Syntax assists in comprehending the intrinsic, evolving logic of urban form. Based on the findings of urban morphology, the Urban Form Index could function as an analytical instrument in numerous phases of the urban design process, thereby promoting urban vitality. Moreover, morphology-led understandings of urban design theory can inform urban design practices. This study endeavors to introduce quantitative thinking into urban morphology and urban design, with the objective of developing a lively built environment and pursuing more vibrant place-making.

Yuen, Belinda / Cai, Yanjun / Chan, Francine et al., 11 Smart Cities. 320 pp. 2024:12 (World Scientific, SI) <741-1069>
ISBN 978-981-12-9573-7 hard ¥25,311.- (税込) US$ 118.00

This book discusses smart city implementation in 11 smart cities - Auckland, Boston, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Melbourne, Milan, Seoul, Tokyo, and Vancouver. The cities encompass a range of smart city development on selected critical issues in economic prosperity (future digital economy, smart retail, smart tourism), social inclusion (digital inclusion, digital placemaking, smart health service, smart youth empowerment), and environmental sustainability (climate resilience action, circular economy, smart climate action). The focus is on their challenges and course of action in and around the socio-technical systems and processes of sustainability transition. The chapters focus on emerging issues, enabling technologies, practical approaches, policies and case studies. The analysis recognises that smart city development takes place in a social context that, to some degree, will influence the adoption and effectiveness of technologies and ultimately, determine whether they meet end-user satisfaction. Smart city development is pivoted on technological changes, connectivity, and data, but also on people and government involvement and the transformation of urban living practices and conditions. This book aims to deepen dialogues on possible smart city strategies from the perspective of how people, organisations (e.g., processes, communication networks), and technologies interact to achieve individual, organisational, or societal goals.