Aveline-Dubach, Natach (Ed.). Invisible Population: The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities. 2012. Lanam, MD: Lexington Books. £44.95/US$70.00 hardback; £44.95/US$69.99 e-book. ISBN: 978 0 7391 7144 8 hardback; 978 0 7391 7145 5 e-book.
Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina and Fuchs, Martina (Eds). Industrial Transition: New Global–Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. 2012. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. 260 pp. £55.00/US$99.95 hardback. ISBN: 978 1 4094 3121 3 hardback.
Knox, Paul L. Palimpsests: Biographies of 50 City Districts. 2012. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag. 288 pp. €42.69. ISBN: 978 3 0346 0809 1 paperback.
Newell, Sasha. The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire. 2012. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 296 pp. £55.00/US$85.00 hardback; £18.00/US$27.50 paperback. ISBN: 978 0 226 57519 3 hardback; 978 0 226 57520 9 paperback.
Ryan, Brent D. Design after Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking. 2012. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 288 pp. £29.50/US$45.00 hardback. ISBN: 978 0 8122 4407 6 hardback.
Tewdwr-Jones, Mark. Spatial Planning and Governance: Understanding UK Planning. 2012. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 296 pp. £25.99 paperback. ISBN: 978 0 230 29219 2 paperback.
Western, John. Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-portrait. 2012. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. 296 pp. £65.00/US$119.95 hardback. ISBN: 978 1 4094 4371 1 hardback.
Wilson, William Julius. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, 2nd edn. 2012. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 320 pp. £13.00/US$20.00 paperback. ISBN: 978 0 226 90126 8 paperback.