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

Rosen, Christian / Gribat, Nina (eds.), Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South: Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 198 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-573>
ISBN 978-1-032-84086-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery.Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex configurations in which both forms always co-exist and compete as powerful social constructs. It unveils the juxtaposition, simultaneity, dependency and intertwining of in-/formalised practices and highlights the relevance of this perspective to better understand urban development, especially in the global South. At the same time, the book focuses on secondary cities of Ghana and Peru that are often overlooked in the existing literature but play a relevant role in global urbanisation quantitively and qualitatively. In offering a comparative perspective on two very diverse geographical contexts, ten empirical studies are framed by a conceptualisation of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' and a concluding systematisation of perspectives on this central aspect of urban development. Taken together, this volume make an innovative contribution on how to produce new and more diverse urban theories of cities of the global South.This book is essential for scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of urban planning, urban studies, infrastructure studies and international cooperation alike. In addition, it will be of interest to those in the fields of urban sociology, public policy, urban geography and development studies.This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany and by the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.

知識ベースの開発を通じた脱成長－人新世における社会的繁栄
Carrillo, Francisco Javier, Degrowth through Knowledge-Based Development: Social Flourishing in the Anthropocene. (Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia) 264 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-607>
ISBN 978-1-032-76583-9 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state. In doing so, it addresses the literature gap on continued social improvement within a postgrowth economic and cultural paradigm.Carrillo consolidates research on the degrowth paradigm and proposes a conceptual framework for continued social improvement based on the integration of tangible and intangible collective value. He proposes a method that accounts for effective social value through capital systems valuation and development and includes this operational metric system as an alternative to the metric of Gross National Product (GNP). The book critically examines the challenges of identifying a complete and consistent representation of total social value. The book also includes a series of knowledge-based development programs in cities and regions around the world and discusses policies and practices for urban mitigation and adaptation to the Anthropocene.This transdisciplinary book will be of particular interest to researchers of degrowth economics, sustainable development, and urban planning.

Yigit Turan, Burcu / Cate Christ, M. / Cerulli, C. (eds.), Getting Political in the Neoliberal City: Planning and Design for Social and Environmental Justice. 194 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-634>
ISBN 978-0-367-85929-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-0-367-85927-5 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

In a world defined by ever-deepening crises-climate, social, economic, and political-urban spaces emerge as both the battlegrounds of injustice and the arenas of possibility. Getting Political in the Neoliberal City interrogates the roles of planners, architects, designers, and urban citizens in challenging the pervasive inequities of neoliberal urbanism. Drawing from critical case studies spanning continents and disciplines, this volume reframes the intersections of spatial and social justice to illuminate how space becomes a site of power, exclusion, and potential resistance.Through incisive essays and reflective scholarship, this book explores how cities are shaped by market forces and neoliberal governance, yet also serve as sites for insurgent practices at various scale, grassroots movements, and alternative imaginaries that resist dominant modes of urbanization and claim just ways of making cities. Highlighting the emergence of new epistemologies, subjectivities and critical agencies, Getting Political in the Neoliberal City calls for a transformative rethinking of urban and environmental planning, design, and citizenship.Featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners in diverse fields, including architecture, geography, political science, and anthropology, the book maps the tensions between depoliticized scholarly and professional practices and the urgent need for politicized action. With compelling examples from Australia, Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, the USA, and Sweden, this book offers fresh insights into ongoing research on the struggles for more equitable, inclusive, and environmentally just cities. It also provides opportunities to understand the historical contextuality of each case and to reflect on the nuances, similarities, and global connections between different cases across different geographies.

批判的都市計画の将来－都市計画理論の新方向
Allmendinger, Philip / Tewdwr-Jones, Mark et al. (eds.), Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory. 270 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-637>
ISBN 978-1-032-51568-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-51570-0 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Planning lies at the heart of successful and sustainable places, yet planning scholarship often appears stuck in routinised patterns of thought. Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas both from within planning and beyond. Contributors draw on examples from across the globe, considering the applicability of concepts and theories across traditional divides. In this way, Critical Planning Futures continues planning's rich tradition of borrowing ideas from elsewhere and using those ideas to shine a light back onto well-rehearsed theoretical debates to set out new ways forward for planning in the twenty-first century. This book will be a vital resource for planning specialists, though the breadth of ideas will be of interest to academics and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including urban studies, geography, political science, and sociology.

Bain, Alison L. / Podmore, Julie A., Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 250 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-638>
ISBN 978-1-032-63250-6 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada's three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, civic and para-public allyship, individual and collective activism, and everyday practices of living and dreaming as revealed through photo-elicitation interviews and collective counter-mapping that together unmake and remake suburban places as queer.Queerburbia offers a comparative case study of how large Canadian city-regions become queerer through LGBTQ2S suburban place-making/unmaking/remaking. For urban scholars, it deepens place-making theory with the conceptual introduction of the neologism "queerburbia" as a means to re-envision metropolitan peripheries as sites of queer futures. Practically, it offers civic leaders, urban planners, and policymakers insights into the complex dynamics of municipal LGBTQ2S misrecognition and critical allyship strategies beyond rainbowization. Methodologically innovative, this book combines print media, census, and municipal policy analysis with expert and photo-elicitation interviews, counter-mapping focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork. It reveals the multiple layers of queerburban place-making/unmaking/remaking, demonstrating how statistical and media representations, municipal services and social inclusion policies, para-public and activist resistance and organizing, and individual living and dreaming emplace sexual and gender minorities in suburbia. An interdisciplinary book at the interstices of Geography, Urban Studies, Suburban Studies, Urban Planning, and LGBTQ+ Studies, its intended audiences are scholars of cities, queer theory, and sexual and gender minority life extending to Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology. It targets upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and practitioners of municipal social inclusion, including civic leaders, urban policymakers, and urban planners.

Bell, Daniel A. / Shalit, Avner de (eds.), Cities and Identities. 124 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-639>
ISBN 978-1-041-04096-5 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them.The question of identity and which social relations constitute it has been a central topic in philosophy and social science for centuries. While the state played a key role in shaping identity during the 20th century, its influence has waned in recent years due to market pressures, international agreements, migration, and institutions like the IMF, which limit state autonomy, hence its ability to design policies that sustain and enhance particular, national identities. This collection argues that cities are emerging as new sources of identity, possessing their own "ethoses"-distinctive normative characters. The contributors explore this idea through six cities: London, Qingdao, Tokyo, Mumbai, Istanbul, and Amsterdam. Their analysis draws on extensive document research, personal experiences, urban exploration, and interviews with residents from diverse social, ethnic, and gender backgrounds.This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Bernroider, Lucie / Miro Born, Anthony et al. (eds.), Intersectionality and the City: Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space. (The Refiguration of Space) 288 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-640>
ISBN 978-1-032-65899-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86876-9 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book combines intersectional perspectives and urban research to demonstrate the importance of intersectionality as a concept that can complement 'refigurational' understandings of social change as the outcome of spatial conflicts. Showing how intersectionality enables us to grasp the intersecting categories of inequality in these spatial tensions, it remains attentive to the role of social difference and power in these processes, as well as to modes of normativity and resistance. With case studies gathered from a range of national contexts, it provides rich empirical insights into the relationship between urban spatialities, power dynamics and embodied social inequalities, addressing the manner in which different conflicts are made manifest intersectionally in and through situated urban spaces. The chapters consider issues such as the gendering and racialization of urban spaces; urban marginality and environmental pressures; intersectional power dynamics in research; heteronormative and cisgender-centric structures in the city; ageing in the city; young people, control and insecurity; police violence; migrant emplacement and activism; racialized gentrification and commoning, and pandemic safety and protest, to explore the uneven outcomes of spatial planning and urban development. As such, it draws attention to the interplay of various forces in the production of exclusion and injustice and will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and urban studies with interests in inequality, social change and resistance to exclusion.

Borsi, Katharina, The Berlin Tenement and the City. (Routledge Research in Architectural History) 194 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-641>
ISBN 978-1-032-43433-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology. In contrast to earlier historical categorisations of the tenement as a "rental barrack", here it is described as an evolving typology that dynamically responded to the demands of the city and urban reform.In this dynamic understanding of architecture, the tenement is the protagonist of the actual unfolding of the city, its growth and densification as well as its spatial and social differentiation. Charting the evolution of the productive tenement into a morphology combing living and manufacturing and the rise of tenements increasingly differentiated according to class, traces their contribution to the evolution and generalisation of norms of housing and domesticity. This book is essential reading for scholars, students, architects and urbanists interested in Berlin or the history of housing and the city.

人種と建築批判的必携
Hernandez, Felipe / Osayimwese, Itohan (eds.), Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture. (Routledge International Handbooks) 454 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-643>
ISBN 978-1-032-20942-5 hard ¥64,768.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different times, cultures and places. While race has been deployed historically to establish hierarchies in a modern-colonial world, it also has acquired the capacity to challenge those hierarchies, enabling critical engagements with epistemic positions that have been excluded from univocal Eurocentric architectural narratives.The volume expands the discourse on racializing concepts and categories beyond the traditional Africa-North America axis, examining many issues that have been overlooked in the field of architecture. This broader range of topics provides for a more comprehensive understanding of how race is constructed and represented in architectural theory and practice globally.Written by an international and influential cast of contributors, the structure of the book permits a detailed revision of the most current theoretical debates on race. Each part deals with a specific challenge at a particular scale. Ultimately, the book embraces discussions about theory, urban and regional debates, architectural design at the scale of the building, history and education, exploring the concept of race in all aspects of the discipline. It is essential reading for anyone studying or working in the built environment.

Huang, Xiao / Ye, Xinyue / Stewart, Kathleen et al. (eds.), Urban Human Mobility: Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities. 384 pp. 2025:6 (CRC Pr., US) <742-644>
ISBN 978-1-032-82162-7 hard ¥42,240.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

This comprehensive handbook covers human mobility within urban contexts, integrating academic theories with pragmatic insights and offering a detailed analysis of the diverse facets of human mobility and its substantial impact on the urban landscape, economy, and societal structures. It explains key fundamental concepts, methods, and models, presenting an in-depth exploration of predictive analytics, clustering patterns, advanced trajectory embedding techniques, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, GIS, IoT, and smart city innovations. The authors include many case studies and examples of urban mobility in practice, making the content relatable and practical for educators, students, researchers, and practitioners. FeaturesProvides a multidisciplinary and holistic understanding of urban mobility with systematic introductions and discussions of theory, methods, technologies, tools, and applications.Covers a wide range of real-world case studies of urban mobility in practice globally that include data, programming code, and tools.Discusses cutting-edge technologies involved in mobility data analytics.Addresses practical challenges in data collection and the ethical implications of mobility research, which are crucial for professionals in the field.Offers future directions of human mobility research under the Big Data and AI revolution.Urban Human Mobility: Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities is for professionals, academics, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Urban Planning/Design, GIScience, Data Mining, and Social Sciences.

Karunaratne, Gihan (ed.), Resilient Urbanism. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 290 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-645>
ISBN 978-1-032-74832-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities. Resilient Urbanism critically examines how cities, towns, and informal settlements adapt to these multifaceted challenges, exploring urban resilience in the 21st century.This volume investigates resilience across a variety of urban contexts, from megacities in the Global South to suburban and coastal regions, through interdisciplinary essays. The contributors examine how urban communities confront crises, navigate urbanization, adapt to climate change, and respond to socioeconomic transformations using innovative and, at times, unconventional strategies. Case studies highlight the lived experiences of urban dwellers, from informal settlements in Maputo, Rio de Janeiro, and Hanoi to the challenges of achieving energy efficiency in Buenos Aires.By interrogating dominant discourses on urban resilience, Resilient Urbanism offers a reimagined perspective on how cities and their inhabitants address uncertainty and change. It emphasises the everyday practices of urban residents and explores the socio-political dynamics of urbanisation, presenting resilience not merely as a theoretical framework but as a lived, evolving process. This work sheds light on how cities withstand crises and actively reshape themselves in response to these disruptions.This volume is an essential resource for scholars, urban planners, policymakers, and professionals concerned with the future of cities. It underscores that urban resilience is not just a theoretical concept but a vital imperative for navigating the complexities of a rapidly changing global landscape.

都市リーダー　第8版
LeGates, Richard T. / Stout, Frederic / Caves, R. W. (eds.), The City Reader. 8th ed. (Routledge Urban Reader Series) 808 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-646>
ISBN 978-1-032-85712-1 hard ¥64,768.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00
ISBN 978-1-032-85711-4 paper ¥14,065.- (税込) GB￡ 49.95

The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. It has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as urban history, place making, sustainable urban development, globalization, resilience, artificial intelligence in planning cities, climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, cities in Africa, and urban theory. The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization and the global city system of the future. The plate sections have been more than doubled to include 93 plates.The 8th edition includes fifty-eight generous selections: forty-seven from the 7th edition, one from the 6th edition, and ten new selections, including four newly written exclusively for the 8th edition. This new edition retains classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, H.D.F. Kitto, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Louis Wirth, and Peter Hall as well as the best contemporary writings of, among others David Harvey, Manuel Castells, Michael Batty, Sara Meerow, Fulong Wu, Saskia Sassen, Richard LeGates, Michael Smith, John McWhorter, and a co-authored selection by Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil. The City Reader 8th Edition features general and section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors, providing context, and relating the selection to other selections. The 8th edition includes a greatly expanded bibliography with up-to-date information on books, articles, professional reports, and videos for all the topics covered.

Li, Chuo, American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment. 264 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-647>
ISBN 978-1-032-84819-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-84817-4 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment offers a captivating exploration of the vibrant yet contested landscapes of Chinatowns across the United States.Through a critical and nuanced lens, Li examines how postwar urban redevelopment, racial dynamics, and identity politics have profoundly transformed these iconic neighborhoods. Blending rich historical research with sharp analysis, this book uncovers the interplay of race, urban planning ideologies, and social equity, shedding light on how Chinatowns navigate resilience and reinvention amid shifting urban paradigms. Li's work highlights the tension between cultural preservation and modernization, exploring the built environment alongside community-driven spatial activism to reveal how these urban spaces persist as sites of resistance, identity, and transformation. American Chinatowns is a compelling study of cultural landscape, urban justice, and the politics of city-making.This book is essential reading for scholars, urbanists, and anyone intrigued by the intersection of race, identity, and the evolving narratives of America's cities. This book invites readers to rethink the meaning of place, heritage, and equity in the urban fabric.

Madanipour, Ali, Authenticity and Urbanism: A Critical Inquiry. 316 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-648>
ISBN 978-1-032-58855-1 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-58856-8 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes. Defining authenticity as an evaluative relationship with an origin, it unpacks a range of origins from a critical, non-essentialist perspective: self, author, substance, event, time, place, and society. Authenticity is a key concept in contemporary culture. It was selected as the word of the year 2023 by Merriam-Webster, it is significant for UNESCO in designating the world heritage, a philosophical battleground, and reflecting concerns about truth and trust in the digital age. This book offers a clear understanding of the concept and discusses its implications for urbanism, understood as both material and relational, both physical and social. It critically examines whether an authentic urbanism may be possible through seeking a solid ground in the self, in the act of making, in the substance of objects, in transformative events, in particular times and places, and in society and culture.Analysing the complexities, nuances, and controversies of the concept of authenticity, and their implications for urban space and society, the book explores the promises and pitfalls of authenticity, looking for ways of avoiding its dangers and searching for its creative potentials. Students and scholars in urban studies, geography, urban design, planning and architecture, as well as in sociology and cultural studies would find this interface between ideas and practices informative and insightful.

McGovern, Stephen J., Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century. 456 pp. 2025:1 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-649>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2678-4 hard ¥13,942.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyond Immigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In Mobilization Politics, Stephen J. McGovern offers a new approach to analyzing contemporary urban politics in light of these broad, societal changes. Redirecting the focus from the top-down orientation of regime theory toward a more bottom-up perspective, he contends that a striking upsurge in grassroots activism around issues such as policing and criminal justice reform, precarious labor, affordable housing, community development, and workforce diversity is transforming urban politics and policymaking. Through a detailed analysis of political activity in Philadelphia over the past decade, McGovern elucidates the mechanisms and impacts of grassroots mobilization. Philadelphia is typical of many large American cities with a relatively prosperous downtown core surrounded by neighborhoods that continue to struggle, sometimes amidst grinding poverty and long-standing racial oppression. And yet, Philadelphia, as a site of substantial grassroots activism since the early 2010s, has made significant strides in combatting economic and racial inequality in several important policy realms. Mobilization Politics expands the scope of the field of urban politics beyond the quiet, behind-the-scenes bargaining of regime partners and considers other key arenas of political contestation-such as electoral politics; policymaking by the mayor, administrative agencies, and the city council; and a wide range of activist groups operating at the grassroots. The book shows how bottom-up mobilization has been especially effective when activists engaging in street protests and demonstrations have joined with more established community-based organizations and issue-advocacy groups skilled in lobbying, litigation, and electioneering. By highlighting how this combination of insider/outsider activism has been a potent force for political change in contemporary Philadelphia, Mobilization Politics presents a more comprehensive, dynamic, and revealing way to look at power and politics in American cities today.

Phelps, Nicholas A. / Keil, Roger / Maginn, Paul (eds.), Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs. (Planning, History and Environment Series) 292 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-650>
ISBN 978-1-032-41249-8 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The term 'peripheral centralities' may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral centralities of different sizes, purpose, geographical location, and political complexion, dating from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present day. Following the introduction, two chapters provide broad overviews of peripheral centralities in international and national systems of centralities. The next four chapters look at plans from settings as different as Dublin and Shanghai that, for one reason or another, failed to materialize. The following eight chapters each describes cases where projects have been realized, ranging from peripheral townships in England to a Chinese steel city. To conclude the book, the editors highlight the themes revealed in the foregoing chapters and consider the part an appreciation of peripheral centralities might play in the development of urban theory from the outside in.

Post-Mining Network (ed.), Architecture, Landscape, and Design in Post-Mining Territories. 258 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-651>
ISBN 978-1-032-75943-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-75942-5 paper ¥12,387.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99

This edited collection explores how architects, planners and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working for the reappropriation of territorial resources after centuries of the subordination of local and immigrant populations. The first part reviews cases from European sites, including examples from France, Germany, and Romania which highlight intangible heritage as the subject of a territorial project. A special focus is placed on the coalfields of northern France, a Unesco World Heritage site since 2012, where many experimental projects are being carried out. The second part explores the great American landscapes transformed by the extractive industry, in the United States, Brazil, and Chile. Fully illustrated throughout, photos showcase architectural and landscape achievements and drawings of future projects. Contributors respond to the design challenges of post-mining landscapes, foreshadowing new and varied transformative horizons, the cases present a rich and articulate collection of 'on-the-ground' projects.This book is essential to practitioners and students of architecture and urban planning, as well as associations and political and technical actors in the post-mining communities.

Srivastava, Ashish Kumar / Srivastava, Iva Ashish (eds.), Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 412 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-653>
ISBN 978-1-032-84093-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage. Lack of planning can have severe social, cultural, economic and political repercussions in cities. Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban Planning that keep at the forefront both the citizen and the environment, as essential assets of the urban community. Organised into three distinctive parts, the book adopts a holistic perspective of urbanisation, with contributors from diverse backgrounds, ranging from government, academia, and NGOs. While capturing the current trends of urbanisation in general, it deals with inclusivity, livability and sustainability in particular. Due to its embrace of a wide spectrum of urban issues from the point of view of academics, researchers, technocrats, private sector and government officials, this book is truly unique. Across twenty chapters, the book not only encompasses the challenges of urban governance, but also provides insights on different innovations undertaken to address them in the best possible way. Undoubtedly, Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable is a vital resource for students and research scholars of urban management and administration, as well as for professionals working in the field.

Stapper, E. W. (Michiel), Contracting with Citizens: How Morals, Politics, and Laws Shape Cities. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 166 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-654>
ISBN 978-1-032-71282-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics.In participatory processes, residents negotiate with policymakers about the future of their neighborhood. Within the last few decades this happens increasingly in co-creation sessions where citizens are deemed to have an equal position vis-a-vis developers and civil servants. The goal of this book is to understand and theorize how these negotiations affect collective action. The book will scrutinize the role of contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes in development projects and planning policies. Using a comparative case study of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and New York, this book reveals how seemingly fresh and novel planning practices are used to justify processes of capital accumulation and reveal how morals, politics and law can create institutional change.The book presents a novel theoretical approach to studying urban politics, putting emphasis on (private) law and the material arrangements of participatory processes. It will be of interest to researchers and students of planning, geography, sociology, public administration, and law, and will provide valuable lessons for practitioners interested in understanding the effects of contractual governance on neighborhoods.

グローカルな街－社会変動とグローバル化
Tatsis, Nicholas, A Glocal Town: Social Change and Globalization. (Global Connections) 208 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-655>
ISBN 978-1-032-54014-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book presents novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging 'glocal' realities of (sub)urban space. Beginning with a study of a suburb of Athens, it illustrates the dynamic interaction of the local with the global, charting the occurrence of a range of radical social changes as the locality adapts itself to processes of globalization. Moving out from the Athenian context, it shows how the various traditions of suburban enclaves interact with the impact of external but omnipotent elements of the global(ized) world - for instance, in the adoption of events and practices that occur in societies across the world, such as Earth Day or International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the use of the global calendar - as the polis becomes a cosmopolis. Through analyses of this kind, A Glocal Town advances a three-stage interpretative scheme that enables us to frame 'glocality' more broadly, and make sense of the global-local interaction wherever in occurs. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and urban studies with interests in globalization and its interaction with the local in (sub)urban locales.

Wiley, Amber N., Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital. (Culture, Politics, and the Build Environment) 456 pp. 2025:3 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <742-656>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4846-9 hard ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Ahola, Tuomas / Tura, Nina / Ojanen, Ville et al. (eds.), Citizen Participation in Sustainable Urban Development: A Framework for Engagement from the Nordics. 240 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-421>
ISBN 978-1-032-73278-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-73027-1 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book assesses the ambitious goals for sustainability set by cities and nations, and details ways to achieve those goals through effective forms of collaboration between citizens and multiple stakeholders, such as municipal decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and academic researchers.Each chapter discusses how citizens are currently involved in urban development and what opportunities there are for further deepening the collaboration in context of urban development between citizens and municipalities. Cases from the Nordics focus on the adoption and use of digital technologies in provision of municipal services as well as in citizen participation. The book presents the state of the art in scientific research in the field, practical examples from multiple case studies of sustainable urban development initiatives, as well as key themes for moving the discourse forward in the future. It is essential for academics, students, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and professionals working in the areas of sustainability, urban development, and citizen engagement. It will also be relevant to citizen groups, community organizations, and activists who are interested in advocating for and participating in the development of smart and sustainable cities, particularly in Nordic countries.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.