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

大都市化に直面するフランスの主要な都市
Bourdin, Alain (ed.), Major French Cities facing Metropolization. 232 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-1047>
ISBN 978-3-031-59313-0 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book characterizes a type of city, i.e. the metropolis, by using characteristics which have very little to do with its size. It distinguishes between metropolises and megacities and defines these different characteristics by bringing together elements related to facilities, accessibility and economic power on one hand and other elements which relate more to the capacity for innovation and, more generally, to the knowledge society and economy. All of which demonstrate the process of metropolization, as well as elements of daily life and, more generally, elements which relate to the urban experience. To live in a metropolis is not only to benefit from more urban amenities, but also to live in a different way, in particular, in a world which is much more diverse in every respect. Based on a series of metropolization criteria constructed and discussed, this book goes beyond ordinary statistical approaches to integrate the interterritorial scale of metropolitan systems as well as their qualitative dimension. Following in Simmel's footsteps, it shows that a city is also an atmosphere, a mentality, a spirit, all of which are poorly captured by statistical data. As such, the book focuses on five major themes: networks, economic development, social issues, urban form and the ecological and digital transition. The books makes an interesting read for urban planners, sociologists, planners and architects, and all specialists working in this field.

Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.), Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks. Volume 1: Mapping Time Journey Experiences. 283 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-1048>
ISBN 978-3-031-58020-8 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book describes the journey concept relating to cultural and social history of Western and non-Western worlds. By including time journeys negotiated by women, racial minorities, artists, and scholars from the humanities and social, natural and physical scientists, the book explores time/space journeys in personal, professional, and cultural life and place experiences. The sixteen chapters in this book offer new insights into time/place worlds in different contexts including history, culture, astronomy, and science fiction. The concept is one where science and art worlds intersect in the emerging worlds of the unknown. With contributors from different disciplines and countries expanding our understanding of this concept, this volume provides a valuable source for disciplinary and interdisciplinary classes and seminars exploring these scholarly frontiers.

Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.), Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks. Volume 2: Mapping Heritage Journeys and Sameness. 346 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-1049>
ISBN 978-3-031-58028-4 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book explores journeys in a time context with a focus on places, place meanings, and landscapes. Whether the journey relates to ancient or modern trails, roads, or railroads, or a historical or contemporary pilgrimage or a tourist venture in social contexts, the book addresses the importance of places and environmental settings, whereby time itself is described and defined in multiple contexts. The chapters discuss among others archaeological and pre-history settings, tourism settings, and heritage events, as well as regional and transnational migration routes and those used by historical nomadic cultures and postmodern nomads. Some time and place journeys are fluid and dynamic and re-interpreted while for others there is much "sameness" in the visible landscapes. Retaining the past and reconstructing the past are both journeys. That sameness concept is also applied to cultural and political worlds where there is little progress or reform to address social welfare and empowerment. This book opens the door for exploring shallow and deep journeys by those in the humanities and social sciences at local, national, and regional scales.

Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.), Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks. Volume 3: Mapping Time Journeys in Music, Art and Spirituality. 280 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-1050>
ISBN 978-3-031-58032-1 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This volume discusses the intersections of multiple human journeys and the importance of places and place settings, such as battlefield re-enactments, heritage fairs, pilgrimage sites and faith journeys. The chapters in this book describe among others racial history tourism, music festivals which are frequent time-journeys attracting local and regional audiences, as well as art journeys, displayed in museums, whereby place plays an important role in how journeys of the soul, culture, and state are intersected, displayed, and remembered. The book also provides insight into how the worlds of art, narratives, and images are evident in how youth draw and depict climate change, re-inventing the past for commercial tourism income and re-interpreting history for contemporary cultures. It shows how global warming is also a journey that is both intellectual and environmental and how politics is an important part of any constructed and reconstructed journey.

Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.), Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks. Volume 4: Mapping Time Transport Journeys. 223 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-1051>
ISBN 978-3-031-58036-9 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book provides insight into the importance of place and place settings in personal journeys. It explores the worlds of time journeys in different contexts: daily work, community livelihoods, rural-urban migration, disease outbreaks and controls, cruise ship tours, and isolated frontier settings. Besides this, the book also addresses the networks connecting rural and urban places, transcontinental highways and railroads, rural-urban migration and other innovative journeys such as gas station road maps and body maps. The chapters also discuss how eradicating diseases are time/place journeys as is moving from a distant isolated frontier to a metropolis. As such, this book is a must read for those interested in exploring the intersections in and between the humanities and social/policy sciences.

Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.), Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks. Volume 5: Mapping Women and Family Journeys. 244 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <726-1052>
ISBN 978-3-031-58040-6 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book investigates both early as well as recent accounts of journeys by women and families in African, Asian, East European, North and Latin American contexts. It discusses how places, place settings and transport routes, whether by land, sea, or air, were and remain important in the impacts these newcomers have on states and regions. The contributions to this book provide insight in laws and regulations related to women's and refugees' rights. They highlight the importance of place and location in defining rights and implementing reforms, such as the importance of the politics and the state in identifying rights in global contexts of refugee resettlement, cross-border employment, security and reshaping human institutions as well as the changing legal landscape related to for instance women participating in the Olympic Games and in national sports. The book also touches on the worlds of family landscapes, mapping family trees, family cemeteries and redefining immigrant city mixes. As such, the book offers readers to explore past, present, and future issues faced by women and families, regardless of place or country.

Demirsu, Ipek, The Hostile City of Love and Antibodies of Hate: Urban Contestations of Identity and Belonging. (Global Populisms 5) 314 pp. 2024:7 (Brill, NE) <726-1053>
ISBN 978-90-04-69289-3 hard ¥31,359.- (税込) EUR 129.00

Demirsu offers an engaging comparative analysis of antagonistic social actors co-existing in Verona, a mid-sized city in northeast Italy renowned as the fortress of the far-right. This rich multidimensional analysis explores the intersection of space, identity, and social movements, by delving into the evolution of competing actors and their contending positions on identity and belonging as manifested through urban spaces. While the city and its touristic heritage are promoted for a transnational identitarian network, the protracted struggles of grassroots actors demonstrate democratic potentials for the bottom-up realization of inclusive and pluralist possibilities in hostile settings. The book traces the ways in which collective identity and collective action of social actors are shaped by their relationship to the space in which they operate, with ramifications for places beyond.

Iyer-Raniga, Usha, Circular Practices in Buildings and Construction to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. (Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals) 144 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-1054>
ISBN 978-1-03-533886-3 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

This insightful book is a timely response to three of the most significant planetary crises facing humanity: climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. Usha Iyer-Raniga explores how the One Planet Network's Sustainable Buildings and Construction (SBC) programme has provided a clear and actionable pathway to address these critical issues.Launched in 2015, the SBC programme has vastly improved understanding of sustainable construction and has supported and promoted mainstream sustainable building solutions. This unique book outlines the history of the SBC programme, its major successes, its global application and the challenges it faces. Iyer-Raniga highlights advancements in current practice, in particular the mapping of circular built environment indicators against relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Looking ahead, the book proposes opportunities to further develop the insights gained from this programme, and considers the future impact of pursuing circular practices in the building and construction sector.Informative and accessible, this book is a vital read for built environment professionals working in planning, architecture, engineering, procurement, building and construction. Its consideration of the relationship between circular construction and the SDGs is also of importance to policymakers and stakeh olders working in sustainability, as well as students and academics specialising in the built environment.

Oliveira, Vitor (ed.), ISUF, Urban Morphology and Human Settlements: Advances and Prospects. (The Urban Book Series) 274 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <726-1055>
ISBN 978-3-031-58135-9 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). After addressing the three-decade history of ISUF, the book analyses the present and future of this scientific society, of urban morphology, and of human settlements. This timely and fundamental reflection gathers contributions from present and past leadership of ISUF since its inception in 1994. Over the last three decades, the urban world has undergone major changes: the urban population is now higher than the rural population; more than half of the world's population lives on a single continent-Asia, home to almost three billion people in China and India alone-so geographical imbalance is considerable; and while half of the urban population still lives in small cities of fewer than 300,000 inhabitants, the number of megacities has increased significantly. How does the physical form of cities in different parts of the world respond to these dynamics? Can cities preserve fundamental elements of humankind's urban heritage while accommodating changes driven by the main socioeconomic and environmental needs of today? The field of urban morphology has been continuously adjusting to the essential dynamics of its object of study. While developing and strengthening its most robust theories, concepts, and methods designed after the mid-twentieth century, urban morphology has been able to integrate innovative approaches for describing and explaining the emerging dynamics and patterns of urban form-often incorporating groundbreaking technologies for data collection, analysis, modelling, and simulation. But what is the role of urban morphology in science and society today? How effective is it in communicating a rigorous understanding of the urban landscape both to academics and researchers in other fields and to citizens in general? How successful is it in providing practitioners with relevant and useful knowledge that informs their action on cities' form and structure through spatial planning, urban design, and architecture? This book addresses these fundamental questions, offering academics, researchers, and practitioners comprehensive knowledge on human settlements, the field of urban morphology, and the role of ISUF in promoting groundbreaking morphological thought.

ジェンダーと都市ハンドブック
Peake, Linda / Datta, A. / Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G. (eds.), Handbook on Gender and Cities. (International Handbooks on Gender) 496 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-1056>
ISBN 978-1-78643-612-2 hard ¥63,404.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00

This Handbook is a state-of-the-art exploration of the multidisciplinary field of gender and cities scholarship, providing in-depth assessments of the latest research within key areas of feminist urban academia. Editors Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin have brought together over 60 feminist scholars to present cutting-edge insights into this important field of study.The Handbook on Gender and Cities presents a cross-section of contemporary feminist work, spanning a range of theories and practices associated with urban space. Contributing authors explore key issues including urban policy, planning and politics; the urban economic arena; the urban environment; the urban everyday; feminist imaginaries of urban spaces and places; and feminist and decolonial urban knowledge production. The editors trace numerous crucial themes across the Handbook's chapters, namely patriarchy, social reproduction, gendered violence, and women's agency and the arena of the everyday. Whilst the Handbook celebrates the continually developing field of feminist urban studies, it acknowledges the volume of work still to be done and encourages future research to better accept and understand its complex and multiplicitous nature.This forward-thinking Handbook is a vital resource for students, scholars and researchers in the fields of urban studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, women's and gender studies and development studies. Its discussion of contemporary issues in urban settings will also appeal to professionals and practitioners working in public policy, urban design and planning.

Sivaramakrishnan, Lakshmi / Bandyopadhyay, Sumana (eds.), Sustainable Urban Forms and Communities: Urban Geographies of Eastern India: Urban Geographies of Eastern India. 300 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-703>
ISBN 978-1-03-226648-0 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century. It focuses on the emerging urban landscapes of the state and neighbouring areas on building sustainable urban units and sustainable communities. The book explores the changing urban geographies of the emerging towns of the state and discusses how proper governance can help them to change into sustainable urban units. It presents the historical context of urbanization of West Bengal and traces the factors responsible for the urban primacy of the state. It discusses topics such as the development of the spatial patterns and urbanization, spatial trends of urban growth using remote sensing and GIS techniques, well-being and resilience in the urban society, impact of urbanization on the health status of its citizens, and decentralized governance for inclusive and sustainable development of cities. It also focuses on urban growth, land-use change and its impact on the urban environment. Based on empirical research, this book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers of geography, urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning urban sociology, politics, and urban economics. It will also be of interest to geographers, urban planners, community of geographers, professionals engaged in the discipline, and those interested in the urban geography of West Bengal and eastern India.

Appelhans, Nadine / Rawhani, Carmel et al. (eds.), Everyday Urban Practices in Africa: Disrupting Global Norms. (Routledge Studies in African Development) 292 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <725-735>
ISBN 978-1-03-246698-9 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. International policy frameworks have created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, these frameworks have also imposed global paradigms and discourses that are often in conflict with local urbanisms. As we approach the deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, there is need for reflection and deliberation on a post-2030 agenda.The authors identify powerful assumptions, norms, and positionalities that obfuscate the efforts to achieve sustainable development in African cities, as well as along the North-South divide. They argue that a disruptive critique of these normative concepts, grounded in the lived African urban everyday, opens up opportunities to dismantle their assumed neutrality. Through disruption, the authors critically re-interpret the meanings of policy and the praxis of local urbanism, ultimately challenging the logic of universalising concepts underpinning implementation in the current international policy system, and asserting the need for contextualised urban policies.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human settlements, development studies, urban geography and African studies. It will also be useful for practitioners including town and regional/urban planners, urban policy consultants, and international development cooperation agencies.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.

Bradlow, Benjamin H., Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg. (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology) 224 pp. 2024:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-736>
ISBN 978-0-691-23711-4 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-691-23712-1 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life-including adequate housing, accessible sanitation, and reliable transportation-are largely unavailable. Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in the built environment? In Urban Power, Benjamin Bradlow explores this question, examining the effectiveness of urban governance in two "megacities" in young democracies: Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Both cities came out of periods of authoritarian rule with similarly high inequalities and similar policy priorities to lower them. And yet Sao Paulo has been far more successful than Johannesburg in improving access to basic urban goods.Bradlow examines the relationships between local government bureaucracies and urban social movements that have shaped these outcomes. Drawing on sixteen months of fieldwork in both cities, including interviews with informants from government agencies, political leadership, social movements, private developers, bus companies, and water and sanitation companies, Bradlow details the political and professional conflicts between and within movements, governments, private corporations, and political parties. He proposes a bold theoretical approach for a new global urban sociology that focuses on variations in the coordination of local governing power, arguing that the concepts of "embeddedness" and "cohesion" explain processes of change that bridge external social mobilization and the internal coordinating capacity of local government to implement policy changes.

Mercer, Claire, The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam. 220 pp. 2024:9 (U. California Pr., US) <725-745>
ISBN 978-0-520-40238-6 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer details how the "suburban frontier" has become the place where Africa's middle classes are shaped. As the first book-length analysis of Africa's suburban middle class, The Suburban Frontier offers significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.

Black, Philip / Martin, Michael / Phillips, Robert et al., Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach. 335 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-838>
ISBN 978-0-367-90398-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-367-89754-3 paper ¥10,083.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Applied Urban Design combines why we design and who we design for, with how we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery. The framework is presented across four distinct steps, covering analysis at strategic and local scales; the urban design program; design development; and technical design. The authors unpack the functional blueprints, liveable qualities, contextual dynamics, and technical components of quality urban design, identifying the role of urban designers in shaping spaces and places across differing local contexts through a responsive and multiscalar approach. International best practice examples and two original 'live' case studies in Aalborg, Denmark and Manchester, UK demonstrate the application of the framework across differing scales and contexts - each supported by authors own images and graphics that illustrate the broad range of urban design visualisation techniques and methods.Visually compelling and insightful, Applied Urban Design is for all who seek to understand, demand, and create people-centred, high-quality, contextually responsive places and spaces.

Borrup, Tom / Zitcer, Andrew (eds.), Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life. (Community Development Research and Practice Series) 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-839>
ISBN 978-1-03-275873-2 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-275872-5 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities in a range of countries including the US, Australia, Portugal, Nepal, the UK, and Canada. The book demonstrates how creativity is integrated in place-based actions, aesthetic strategies, learning environments, and civic processes. As long-time champions and observers of community-based creative and cultural practices, editors Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer elucidate work that not only responds to socio-political conditions but advances practice. They call on artists, funders, cultural organizations, community groups, educational institutions, government, and others to engage in and support this work that fosters a culture of democracy. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, activists, funders, and artists who seek to understand and effect change on local and global scales to preserve, extend, and improve practices of democracy.

Bounds, Anna Maria, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place. (Routledge Studies in Urban Sociology) 144 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-840>
ISBN 978-1-03-250942-6 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-250944-0 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Drawing on urban and community resilience literature, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place offers a detailed qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the philosophy and practices of the city's urban prepper subculture.With a special focus on the height of the pandemic in New York, it considers the city's unique position as the pandemic's first epicenter in the U.S. It explores the lived experience of enduring the pandemic as reflections of class division, considering key themes including: The exodus of the wealthy; sheltering in place for the middle class; the inability to leave high-risk neighborhoods for the poor; and sheltering-in-place practices and community resilience efforts by New York Preppers. It analyzes the importance of good government and an engaged citizenry in developing an agenda for the city's continued recovery and its future, underscoring the need for cities to develop disaster management approaches that expand traditional "command and control" models to make space for local knowledge and resources.At its core, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place is about understanding New York City's pandemic experience and how self-reliance evolves into community resilience outside of institutions. It is vital reading scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, geography and urban studies with interests in subcultures, ethnography and the sociology of disasters.

Chakrabarti, Vishaan, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. 280 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-842>
ISBN 978-0-691-20843-5 hard ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00

From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challengesThe world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet's population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all.Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, Chakrabarti examines architecture's relationship to history's greatest social, technological, and environmental dilemmas. He then presents a rich selection of work by a global array of practicing architects, demonstrating how innovative design can dramatically improve life in big cities and small settlements around the world, from campuses and refugee camps to mega-cities like Sao Paulo, Lima, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo.Lavishly illustrated with a wealth of original graphics, data visualizations, photographs, and drawings, The Architecture of Urbanity eloquently explains why cities are the last, best hope for humanity, and why designers must, alongside political, business, community, and cultural leaders, steward the healing of our planet.

ジェントリフィケーション、白人の空間形成、黒人の場所の感覚
Evans, Shani Adia, We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place. 240 pp. 2025:1 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-843>
ISBN 978-0-226-83776-5 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83775-8 paper ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00

A landmark study that shows how Black residents experience and respond to the rapid transformation of historically Black places. Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called "America's whitest city," Black residents who grew up in the neighborhoods of northeast Portland have made it their own. The district of Albina, also called "Northeast," was their haven and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina changed dramatically-it became majority white. In We Belong Here, sociologist Shani Adia Evans offers an intimate look at gentrification from the inside, documenting the reactions of the residents of Albina as the racial demographics of their neighborhood shift. As white culture becomes centered in Northeast, Black residents recount their experiences with what Evans refers to as "white watching," the questioning look on the faces of white people they encounter, which conveys an exclusionary message: "What are you doing here?" This, Evans shows, is a prime example of what she calls "white spacemaking": the establishment of white space-spaces in which whiteness is assumed to be the norm-in formerly non-white neighborhoods. While gentrification typically describes socioeconomic changes that may have racial implications, white spacemaking allows us to understand racism as a primary mechanism of neighborhood change. We Belong Here illuminates why gentrification and white spacemaking should be examined as intersecting, but not interchangeable, processes of neighborhood change.

Handley, Derek G., Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement. (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation) 214 pp. 2024:9 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <725-844>
ISBN 978-0-271-09775-6 hard ¥25,793.- (税込) US$ 114.95
ISBN 978-0-271-09776-3 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents confronting this diagnosis of "blight" in northern cities in the 1950s and 1960s.Examining Black newspapers, archival documents from Black organizations, and oral histories of community advocates, Derek G. Handley shows how African American residents in three communities-the Hill district of Pittsburgh, the Bronzeville neighborhood of Milwaukee, and the Rondo district of St. Paul-enacted a new form of citizenship to fight for their neighborhoods. Dubbing this the "Black Rhetorical Citizenship," a nod to the integral role of language and other symbolic means in the Black Freedom Movement, Handley situates citizenship as both a site of resistance and a mode of public engagement that cannot be divorced from race and the effects of racism. Through this framework, Struggle for the City demonstrates how local organizers, leaders, and residents used rhetorics of placemaking, community organizing, and critical memory to resist the bulldozing visions of urban renewal.By showing how African American residents built political community at the local level and by centering the residents in their own narratives of displacement, Handley recovers strategies of resistance that continue to influence the actions of the Black Freedom Movement, including Black Lives Matter.

建築とアーバニズムにおけるスマート・デザイン思考必携
Kanaani, Mitra (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism: For a Sustainable, Living Planet. 688 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <725-847>
ISBN 978-1-03-246990-4 hard ¥60,522.- (税込) GB￡ 210.00

This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigating 'smart' approaches to design that augment the potentials of user experiences.Split into six paradigmatic focuses, this volume looks at the theoretical and historical background of smart design, smart design methodologies and typologies, smart design theoretical discourses, smart materials, smart design for extreme weather and a changing climate, smart mobility, and the role of digital technologies, robotics, and simulations in architectural and urban design. Often at odds with each other, this volume places emphasis on smart design and advances in technology for healthy and sustainable living environments.Written by emerging and established architects, planners, designers, scientists, and engineers from around the globe, this will be an essential reference volume for architecture and urban design students and scholars as well as those in related fields interested in the implications, various facets and futures of smart design.

都市部の端でジェントリフィケーションと戦う
Lung-Amam, Willow S., The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge. 360 pp. 2024:9 (U. California Pr., US) <725-848>
ISBN 978-0-520-33816-6 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-33817-3 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC-one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States-have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment. Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"-that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs-and how communities are fighting back.

ロンドンとニューヨークにおける中間層向け住宅と都市部の不平等
Meubrink, Yuca, Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door. (Explorations in Housing Studies) 264 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-851>
ISBN 978-1-03-274273-1 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. This book problematizes those programs in London and New York City by offering an empirical, research-based perspective on the socio-spatial dimensions of inclusionary housing approaches in both cities. The aim of those programs is to produce affordable housing and foster greater socio-economic inclusion by mandating or incentivizing private developers to include affordable housing units within their market-rate residential developments.The starting point of this book is the so-called 'poor door' practice in London and New York City, which results in mixed-income developments with separate entrances for 'affordable housing' and wealthier market-rate residents. Focusing on this 'poor door' practice allowed for a critical look at the housing program behind it. By exploring the relationship between inclusionary housing, new-build gentrification, and austerity urbanism, this book highlights the complexity of the planning process and the ambivalences and interdependencies of the actors involved. Thereby, it provides evidence that the provision of affordable housing or social mixing through this program has only limited success and, above all, that it promotes - in a sense through the 'back door', - the very gentrification and displacement mechanisms it is supposed to counteract.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of housing studies, planning, and urban sociology, as well planners and policymakers who are interested in the consequences of their own housing programs.

Slack, Tim / Monnat, Shannon M., Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities. (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century 9) 232 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-853>
ISBN 978-0-520-40112-9 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40113-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban life. Rural and Small-Town America looks at what we can learn from rural society and confronts common myths and misunderstandings about rural people and places. Tim Slack and Shannon M. Monnat examine social, economic, and demographic changes and how these changes pose both problems and opportunities for rural communities. They assess changes in population size and composition, economies and livelihoods, ethnoracial diversity and inequities, population health and health disparities, and politics and policies. The central focus of this book is that rural America is no paragon of stability. Social change abounds, accompanied by new challenges. Through analysis of empirical evidence, demographic data, and policy debates, readers will glean insights about rural America and the United States as a whole.

Tabb, Phillip James / Tatriele, Lahra, Wellness Architecture and Urban Design. 256 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-854>
ISBN 978-1-03-275203-7 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-275201-3 paper ¥9,219.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices. Wellness Architecture and Urban Design presents definitions, an analysis of the wellness literature, and a brief history of the wellness movement. Specific planning and design strategies are presented citing examples worldwide and emphasizing the importance of wellness considerations at all scales of the built environment from rooms to cities. Both case studies offer fully integrated and comprehensive wellness design approaches creating resilient and life-enhancing wellness through each of the architecture and urban design scales. The book will be of interest to practitioners and students working in urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and affiliated fields.

Visvizi, Anna / Godlewska-Majkowska, Hanna (eds.), Smart Cities: Lock-in, Path-dependence and Non-linearity of Digitalization and Smartification. 256 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-856>
ISBN 978-1-03-253950-8 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.It is commonplace to discuss smart cities through the lens of advances in ICT. The resulting overemphasis on what is technologically possible downplays what is politically, socially and economically feasible. This book, by analysing the smart city through a variety of perspectives, offers a more comprehensive insight into and understanding of the complex and the open-ended nature of the growth and development of a smart city. A solid conceptual framework is developed and employed throughout the chapters, and a selection of case studies from Europe, Asia, and the Arab Peninsula grants the readers a hands-on perspective of the matters discussed.The chapters included in this book address a set of questions, including:How do the twin-processes of digitalization and smartification unfold in the context of the smart city agenda? How do these processes relate to the concepts of smart city 1.0, 2.0., 3.0. and 4.0?In which ways have the spatial aspects of city functioning been influenced by the intrusion of ICT? In which ways do the same processes contribute to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?What are the implications of smartification and the emergence of smart organizations (public, private, and voluntary) for the spatial development of smart cities?Do ICT and its application in the city space boost the processes of revitalization and how does ICT influence the process of gentrification?To what extent and how does the intrusion of ICT-enhanced tools and applications in the city space impact on a city's relationship with its broader territorially defined context?Are the administrative borders and divisions inherent in the fabric of a city becoming less/more porous? How should urban sprawl be conceived in the context of the smart city debate?This book will have a broad appeal to academics, students, and policy makers with interests in urban planning, sustainable development, cities, economics, technology, sociology, urban studies, digitalization, SDGs, wellbeing, and resilience.

城所哲夫、瀬田史彦他編　新自由主義政策と不平等－アジアの都市地域からの証拠
Biswas, Arindam / Kidokoro, Tetsuo / Seta, Fumihiko (eds.), Neoliberal Policies and Inequality: Evidence from Asian City Regions. 230 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-610>
ISBN 978-1-03-211329-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book explores the discourse on urban and regional inequality within the framework of neoliberalism. It analyzes the widespread application of neoliberal policies in Asian city regions and identifies their influence on rising inequality. The book captures inequality through spatial and non-spatial policy narratives with empirical evidence from India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The book uses analytics, narratives and simulation to unfold the opportunities and threats to urban regions that bear the impacts of globalization and neoliberal policies.Lucid and topical, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of urban economics, urban and regional planning, urban studies, urban sociology, political economy, public policy, governance, development studies and Asian economy.

Ittner, Irit / Sharma, Sneha / Khambule, I. et al. (eds.), Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 208 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-612>
ISBN 978-1-03-280003-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of social-economic, administrative and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of Greenfield development, the airport city, or land resources reserved for future airport expansion.The authors in this book emphasise why airport construction is a politically sensitive issue in low-income and low-middle income countries, which serve as the last development frontier of the aviation sector. They argue that observed airport development was rather motivated by the perception of airports as engines for national economic growth, while improving air mobility of national populations was not the main driver. Under dominant national development visions, airport-induced dynamics threatened local livelihoods by triggering economies of anticipation, the reconfiguration of land markets, rapid land use changes, a transition from rural to urban livelihoods, the displacement of communities, the perpetuation of human-wildlife conflicts, or inter-ethnic violence. The authors also highlight colonial path dependencies, legal pluralism in land tenure, the hegemonic relations between builders, investors and the affected residents, as well as strategies of local protest movements.This book is recommended for readers interested in infrastructure-induced conflicts and environmental injustice.

Mell, Ian, Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities: Case Studies in Green Infrastructure Methods and Practice. 240 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-614>
ISBN 978-0-367-34936-3 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-0-367-34937-0 paper ¥9,219.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities. The book reflects upon the integration of contemporary approaches to landscape planning alongside traditional forms of green space design and cultural understandings of the landscape in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Working from a multi-locational perspective, the book illustrates how political, socio-cultural, economic, and ecological factors influence the delivery of GI and the consequences of these decisions. The book provides a set of best practice recommendations for the design, development, and management of greener urban areas. It both explains how GI is being utilised in East and Southeast Asia to address climate change, promote economic prosperity, and support the development of more liveable places, and identifies future trends in its use. It is a key resource for any practitioners, students, and academics working in landscape planning and green infrastructure in an Asian context.

Torres, Stacy, At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America. 421 pp. 2025:1 (U. California Pr., US) <725-305>
ISBN 978-0-520-28862-1 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-28869-0 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life. These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a public living room, providing company to ease loneliness and a sympathetic ear to witness the monumental and mundane struggles of late life. Through years of careful observation, Torres peels away the layers of this oft-neglected social world and explores the constellation of relationships and experiences that Western culture often renders invisible or frames as a problem. At Home in the City strikes a realistic balance as it highlights how people find support, flex their resilience, and assert their importance in their communities in old age.

Kaika, Maria / Ruggiero, Luca, Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change) 264 pp. 2024:12 (U. California Pr., US) <725-309>
ISBN 978-0-520-41007-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41008-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Narrating the closely knit stories of Milan's working class, industrial elites, and industrial land, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground the tenacious role of class struggle over land in choreographing capitalist transitions. They assert that land assetization and financialization are not recent phenomena but rather historical practices sculpted into the present configuration through long-term rituals and struggles, rooted in the everyday lives and histories of both capital and labor. Exploring land assetization from the outset of capitalism's early history, Kaika and Ruggiero offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a "lived" process: the outcome of a relentless and socially embodied historical unfolding, within which land performs a multiplicity of ever-changing symbolic and material roles for both capital and labor as it becomes enrolled simultaneously in local class struggle cycles and the circuits of global (financial) capital.

Mitra Channa, Subhadra, Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974-2023. 264 pp. 2024:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <724-713>
ISBN 978-0-19-892620-7 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974-2023 is a saga covering more than four decades of interactions with an 'untouchable' caste--the Dhobis (washermen and washerwomen), who are among Delhi's oldest inhabitants. It describes their ways of life, economy, livelihood, struggles, and adaptation to the city's changing demographic, cultural, and politico-economic profile. Utilizing an experiential perspective and a gendered and feminist approach, the author elaborates on the Dhobi identity, which is focused on their community (biradari), and discusses their struggles to be identified as skilled professionals at par with others, rejecting at the same time the political identity of being Dalit. Discarding their earlier subjugated sense of the self, the Dhobis are developing an emerging consciousness as democratic citizens, nurturing ambitions of a future where they will find acceptance as a community. To that end, the book also analyses how their marginalized caste-based occupation and skills ensure for them a livelihood and viability within the market economy. Highlighting the community's strategies and tactics of survival and resilience against all odds, Dhobis of Delhi is thus the story of a city viewed through the eyes of those who live on the lowest rung of its social hierarchy but whose contribution to the life of the city is essential, albeit invisible.

Arcidiacono, Andrea / Di Vita, Stefano (eds.), Beyond the 2026 Winter Olympic Games: Sustainable Scenarios for the Valtellina Mountain Region. (Mega Event Planning) 161 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-768>
ISBN 978-981-9980-91-8 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina. It brings an up-to-date analysis of the complex interactions between mega-events and remote areas, both in terms of potentials for regeneration and risks for further segregation. Remote areas are traditionally characterized by socio-economic and spatial disparities. On the one hand, they benefit from attractive features, such as environmental and landscape resources, food and wine production, and energy production. On the other, they are by definition fragile environments, disrupted by the contradictions of international tourism, climate change, limited infrastructures and services, rural abandonment, and demographic decline.This book offers credible solutions for the sustainable development of mountainous regions as a legacy of Winter Olympics. It is an essential resource for scholars, professionals, and policy-makers in the fieldsof urban planning and design, architecture design, geography, sociology, and economics.

Bronin, Sara C., Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World. 208 pp. 2024:10 (Norton, US) <724-789>
ISBN 978-0-393-88166-0 hard ¥6,504.- (税込) US$ 28.99

Zoning codes have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, determining how we experience our cities. Yet zoning remains invisible. In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin reveals the impact of zoning-for good and ill-in cities across the country, from Hartford to Baltimore and Las Vegas to Chicago. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. As Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of zoning, we can harness it to instead create walkable and vibrant communities, resist the monotonous effects of suburban sprawl, integrate design elements that inspire delight, and ensure that everyone has access to affordable housing, public transportation, and healthy food. Key to the City demystifies the invisible force shaping our communities and puts forward a practical and energizing vision for how we can reimagine them.

オリンピック・ゲームとグローバルな都市
Faure, Alexandre (ed.), Olympic Games and Global Cities: What Future for an Olympic System in Turmoil? (Mega Event Planning) 151 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-790>
ISBN 978-981-9995-98-1 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies. Historically, Western cities such as Paris, London, and later Los Angeles, have been the primary hosts of the summer Games. However, the link that existed between the world metropolises of the last century and the Games has deeply changed. Growing concerns about the Games' costs and environmental impact have prompted a shift in the expectations of candidate cities and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This evolution favours more modest bids, and a resurgence of global cities and historical Olympic host cities within the Olympic landscape. This book is an essential resource for researchers in Olympic studies, urban studies, and all those involved in the planning of these events.

Feria Toribio, Jose Maria et al. (eds.), Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Mediterranean Europe: Exploring Metropolitan Structural Processes and Short-term Change. (Spatial Demography Book Series 3) 375 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-791>
ISBN 978-3-031-55435-3 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book analyses the most recent socio-territorial trends that are developing in the Spanish metropolitan space. The first part focuses on the most recent metropolitan dynamics and demographic changes in Southern Europe. The second part discusses the most important processes in metropolitan areas: the problems of increasing social and residential vulnerability and the problems of diversity management. The third part analyses some concrete cases of the main changes and complexity in the spatial dynamics of metropolitan areas in Southern Europe. Finally, the fourth and last part provides an overview on the instruments and the resources put in place by some Southern European cities for the development of governance and citizen participation as an instrument of reaction to the social, economic and COVID crisis. By discussing the main changes and uncertainties derived from the social scenarios after the pandemic, the dynamics of social dualisation of the city, as well as the necessaryinstruments for its analysis and the main challenges in urban governance with special attention of Southern European context, this book provides an interesting read for spatial demographers, human geographers, social scientists and spatial planners.

Lo Piccolo, Francesco / Mangiaracina, A. et al. (eds.), In and Out: Rights of Migrants in the European Space. (UNIPA Springer Series) 319 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-793>
ISBN 978-3-031-51130-1 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines contemporary migratory movements, starting from the European zone, but with an extension to other territorial contexts as well, with research orientation that focuses on the account of the migratory experiences collected in the research activity of the different authors, according to a multidisciplinary dimension. Starting from these key topics, the authors articulated and further developed its reflections through its own experiences at the national and international level, taking root within the current scientific debate on migration. The interdisciplinary approach and the different and innovative ways of analysing in depth the thematic contents of the migration phenomenon have made it possible to identify some key research questions. The relative answers find space in the articulated and complex system of contributions that is developed within this book and in particular in the three thematic parts into which it is divided. The first one deals with the theme of migration confronted with issues related to the 'right to the city' and the 'right to housing'; the second one deals with issues related to human rights; finally, the third one focuses on the different narratives of migrants' life experiences and aspects related to the linguistic representation of the urban space.

Nightingale, Carl, Our Urban Planet in Theory and History. (Elements in Global Urban History) 75 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <724-795>
ISBN 978-1-00-949459-5 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-932180-8 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the Anthropocene. We must enlarge our concept of 'urban' to include spaces that make cities possible and that cities make possible and become comfortable with longer temporal frames that nest global urban history within Earth Time. Above all we need to add the crucial dimension of power, redefining cities as spaces that humans produce to amplify harvests of geo-solar energy and deploy human power within space and time. The element uses insights from 'deep history' to set the stage for a 'theory by verb' elaborating the many paradoxes of humans' 6,000-year gamble with the Urban Condition and explaining cities' own intrinsic capacity to outrun their own theorizability.

Spencer, Sarah / Atac, Ilker / Bastick, Zach et al., Migrants with a Precarious Status: Evolving Approaches of European Cities. (IMISCOE Research Series) 212 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) * paper 2024:5 <724-796>
ISBN 978-3-031-55850-4 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-55853-5 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book is an exploration of city responses to migrants with a precarious status in Europe. It provides new evidence and analysis from research on three cities in Austria, Germany and the UK: Vienna, Frankfurt and Cardiff. The book explores strategies and services of municipal authorities towards precarious migrants and their cooperation with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in service provision. It focuses on healthcare, education, housing and access to advice; and particular attention is given to the situation of women.The book develops the concept of precarity in relation to migration status, and of horizontal governance arrangements within municipal authorities. It explores the tension between exclusion and inclusion of migrants who have limited rights of access to welfare services, and contributes evidence on the factors shaping municipal policy making, as well as on the framing of rationales for providing access to essential services.

都市のパターンと形態の社会的解釈
Talen, Emily, What Cities Say: A Social Interpretation of Urban Patterns and Forms. 352 pp. 2024:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <724-797>
ISBN 978-0-19-764776-9 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-764777-6 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Cities come in all shapes and sizes, with different patterns and forms. Streets might be strictly gridded or curvilinear. Buildings might be tightly packed or spread out. Patterns and forms might reflect the highest aspirations, or they might simply be responses to mundane, utilitarian needs. So what do cities "say" about a society? What do patterns and forms reveal about social priorities and cultural preferences, or about who has power and who does not? In What Cities Say, Emily Talen provides a wide-ranging yet concise synthesis of the fundamental drivers of built form, its social and cultural meaning, and how we should interpret it. Including thirty-five distinct city patterns and forms, Talen develops a language of interpretation to understand the motive and meaning behind the city and its elements. Talen argues that meaning is often implicit, and even if it's more explicit, it is woven in haphazardly through city planning texts in often contradictory ways. To cut through the noise and ambiguity, she focuses on the persistent themes that inhere in built pattern and form, whether for complete cities or individual places. She makes ample use of digital resources to render these interpretations in explicit terms. By exposing these meanings, Talen asserts that we will be in a stronger position to articulate, and argue for, the kinds of cities we want. Richly illustrated and tightly presented, What Cities Say is essential reading for anyone interested in the values and ideas that serve as the foundation of how we construct our cities.

移民と都市
Triandafyllidou, Anna / Moghadam, Amin et al. (eds.), Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy Advances. (IMISCOE Research Series) 307 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-798>
ISBN 978-3-031-55679-1 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-55682-1 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special character of the urban context as a territorial and political space where people coexist, whether by choice or necessity. Drawing on heterogeneous situations in cities in different world regions (including Europe, North America, the Middle East, South, Southeast and East Asia and the Asia Pacific) contributions to this volume examine how migration and the urban context interact in the twenty-first century. The book is structured in four parts. The first looks at cities as hubs of cultural creativity, exploring the many dimensions of cultural diversity and identity as they are negotiated in the urban context. The second focuses on what lies outside the large urban centres of today, notably suburbs, while the third part engages with migration and diversity in small and mid-sized cities, many of which have adopted strategies to welcome growing numbers of migrants. Last but not least, the fourth part looks at the challenges and opportunities that asylum-seeking and irregular migration flows bring to cities. By providing a variety of empirical cases based on various world regions, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, students and policy makers.

Invernale, Antonio / Morena, Marzia / Truppi, Tommaso, The Enhancement of the Italian Territory: Alternative Financial Strategies for Small Municipalities. (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology / PoliMI SpringerBriefs) 105 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <724-204>
ISBN 978-3-031-54055-4 paper ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Allen, John, Power and Space: Essays on a Shifting Relationship. (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics) 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-787>
ISBN 978-1-03-238603-4 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-238606-5 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment.The essays brought together in this book are a response to the fact that conventional descriptions of power and its ordered geographies no longer chime with our lived experience. Spatiality matters to the workings of power nowadays and this book sheds light on what it is that we face when power is exercised though more subtle, spatially nuanced arrangements. It is divided into three parts, each representing a different kind of engagement with power's relationship to space, from the spatial shifts in the way power is exercised through to its assemblage-like entanglements, and, in turn, its progressive topological character. Throughout the book a wide range of social, political, and economic examples are drawn upon to illustrate a more provisional sense of power, ranging for instance from the seductive logic of privatized public spaces to the attempt by a data analytics company to manipulate political behaviour, through to the offshore spaces invented by rising financial elites to challenge the established banking order.Illustrating the new-found abilities of the powerful to make their presence felt, this book provides an accessible account of the practical workings of power in the present-day. It will be invaluable to students and academics in human geography and urban studies as well as politics, sociology and cultural studies.

Cozzolino, Stefano / Moroni, Stefano, Action, Property and Beauty: Planning with and for Emergent Urban Complexity. 144 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-789>
ISBN 978-1-03-258689-2 hard ¥14,118.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by shedding new light on the topics of emergence, complexity, and self-organisation and showing their interconnectedness with other concepts, such as property and beauty, which are usually considered separately. It contributes to the discussion by interpreting and explaining the nature of emergent urban phenomena and suggesting more appropriate design and planning measures.The book explores and untangles these crucial topics in a compact and accessible way by offering fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on the themes of action and interaction, self-organisation, property, neighbourhood adaptability, urban beauty, and suitable public planning and design interventions. It provides novel and crucial insights for students, researchers, and academics in Urban Studies, Planning Theory, Planning Ethics, Planning Law, Legal, Political and Human Geography, Urban and Regional Economics, Urban Sociology, and Urban Design. It is essential for anyone interested in exploring the emergent dynamics of complex urban contexts, as well as for those involved in developing various projects and measures who aim to consider the spontaneous nature of cities seriously.

Donovan, Jenny, Recipes for Urban Happiness: Design for Community Well-being. 304 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-791>
ISBN 978-0-367-34034-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-0-367-34032-2 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

The experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our experience diet influences our health and so our chances of finding happiness and fulfilling our potential. A healthy experience diet offers inspiration, reassurance, delight, and play. It nurtures physical, cognitive, and emotional health, builds resilience, and fosters confidence and self-esteem. An unhealthy experience diet lacks these things and consigns people to lives diminished in quantity and quality. Recipes for Urban Happiness offers an innovative way of looking at the relationship between people and place and redefines what good urban design is. The book outlines what designers and non-designers can do to create urban places where nurturing behaviours are both possible and preferable. Recipes for Urban Happiness will be relevant to public health, community development, and design practitioners, as well as students and academics.

Duijzings, Ger / Tuvikene, Tauri (eds.), If Cars Could Walk: Postsocialist Streets in Transformation. (Explorations in Mobility 27) 264 pp. 2023:7 (Berghahn, US) <723-792>
ISBN 978-1-80539-031-2 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people's movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former 'socialist' modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.

Epting, Shane, Meaning in the Metropolis: Toward an Urban Existentialism. 152 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-795>
ISBN 978-1-03-249231-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-249232-2 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forever change the way they think about their place in the city and what it means to live in one.Engaging in urban existentialism requires interrogating the idea of "The City," delving into the facets of its conception. The lights, sounds, exquisite buildings, art, culture, and, most importantly, the endless possibilities entice people. They are where your wildest dreams of love, success, and happiness can come true. Yet, reality can stymie those aspirations. However, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. The reason is that many urban places, as hypercompetitive networks of socio-material arrangements, test you at every turn. They mold urban dwellers into adaptable beings who can survive the torment of traffic, bad weather, displeasing persons, and grueling work-all before lunch. Despite such complexity, what we want is probably simple: people to love, to be loved, a safe place to call home, good food, acceptance of oneself, and the ability to pursue a fulfilling existence through work and recreation. Like cities, nothing is that simple. Examining the built environment reveals competing interests between several stakeholder groups, and how each person relates to others remains at the center of such an enterprise. Questioning one's place among others is at the heart of this book, and it can help you find meaning in the metropolis.Meaning in the Metropolis will interest philosophers, graduate students, maverick urban planners, and city lovers looking for meaning in the places they call home.

都市計画と政治権力の歴史－欧州の視点
Grau, Victoria / Welch Guerra, Max (eds.), Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power: European Perspectives. 248 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <723-796>
ISBN 978-1-03-275694-3 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-275688-2 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies, and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism; societies in times of peace and societies marked by colonial, civil, world, or cold wars.The dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s made extensive use of the potential of planning for economic growth, for brutal repression, but also for the integration of certain population groups and as an effective means of propaganda. The legacy of these dictatorships still characterizes many European cities today and confronts planning with complex tasks. Dictatorial state socialism planned to establish a new social order with a particular technocratic rationality, which did not, however, cancel completely the tendential autonomy of the professional planning sphere. Parliamentary democracies and illiberal regimes have developed specific new practices of using planning to rebuild cities in the interests of neoliberal economic growth and populistic legitimization of power.Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power takes the next steps in significantly expanding our understanding of planning and politics. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urbanism, urban/town planning, spatial planning, spatial politics, urban development, urban policies, and planning history and European history of the 20th century.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.

Korsten, Frans-Willem / Albright, Anthony T., Imagining Urban Complexity: A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 320 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <723-797>
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Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making.Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature and art, but are also entities that are shaped, perceived, interpreted, and experienced through sense-making techniques that have long been central to the humanities. These techniques activate a dialectic between urban imaginations and cancellations because tropes, media, and genres are aesthetically and politically powerful: they propel imaginations and open up multiplicities of urban possibilities, they naturalize actualized orders and cancel alternatives. This book moves between close readings of city spaces and more systemic and infrastructural approaches to urban environments, providing tools and strategies that can be adapted and extended to understand urban complexity in different cultural and historical contexts. The book speaks to global audiences from a continental philosophical tradition. It is aimed for scholars and researchers in the field of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Urban Studies, urban complexity, aesthetics, and politics. It is relevant to graduate or postgraduate students in critical urban studies, urban design, comparative literature, art history, cultural studies, cultural analysis, ecocriticism, citizenship, political theory, and ethics.

Peake, Linda / Razavi, Nasya S. / Smyth, Araby (eds.), Doing Feminist Urban Research: Insights from the GenUrb Project. 400 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-800>
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Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation.This book delves into both the institutional and lived reality of the practice of feminist urban research via the insights of a transnational research project (GenUrb). Through reflection exercises based on real life examples, it covers research techniques and feminist methodologies, using NVivo, and knowledge mobilization, including utilizing social media, in the time of the Sustainable Development Goals. It guides readers through navigating the politics of decolonizing research, working across differences, and embracing feminist ethics and activism. The book also explores practices such as translation, professional standards of data management and EDI, collaboration with partners, engaging in teamwork, critically examining the 'field' through comparison and feminist geo-ethnographies, and handling crises, including pandemics. Accompanying web resources will assist scholars and students, with additional audio files and documents.This book's practical guidance will help those starting to contemplate and engage in qualitative feminist urban research as well as those teaching the practice and politics of research. It will appeal to and practitioners in urban studies, geography, gender and women's studies, sociology, anthropology, global studies, and development studies.