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

Yarker, Sophie, Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure. (Emerald Points) 152 pp. 2021:11 (Emerald, UK) <665-535>
ISBN 978-1-83982-739-6 hard ¥13,464.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbourhoods that are supportive of the social relationships we need in later life? Understanding that social infrastructures are the shared spaces in our communities that provide opportunity for social interaction and support the development of social relationships, Yarker delves into how shared social spaces and cohesive communities are especially important for creating a positive environment in which to age. With emphasise on how older people rely more on neighbourhood-based networks, this book highlights the crucial importance of diverse spaces in which to develop and maintain social connections as we grow older. Drawing on existing research from urban studies, sociology, human geography and social gerontology, this book makes the case for a better appreciation of the often fleeting and minimal interactions that we have every day in our own neighbourhood. Yarker demonstrates how it is these interactions, and these everyday spaces, that can increase a sense of social connectedness for older people as well as enhance their connection to place.

Shostak, Sara, Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture. (Nature, Society, and Culture) 246 pp. 2021:5 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <665-439>
ISBN 978-0-8135-9015-8 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8135-9014-1 paper ¥9,861.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

Across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, urban farmers and gardeners are reclaiming cultural traditions linked to food, farming, and health; challenging systemic racism and injustice in the food system; demanding greater community control of resources in marginalized neighborhoods; and moving towards their visions of more equitable urban futures. As part of this urgent work, urban farmers and gardeners encounter and reckon with both the cultural meanings and material legacies of the past. Drawing on their narratives, Back to the Roots demonstrates that urban agriculture is a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing inequalities that shape both the materiality of cities and the bodies of their inhabitants.

Powell, Martin (ed.), The Climate City. 608 pp. 2022:5 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <665-1582>
ISBN 978-1-119-74627-0 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

THE CLIMATE CITY Provides professionals in finance, technology, and consulting with solutions for improving the quality of urban life under the changing climate The Climate City provides cutting-edge approaches for developing resilient solutions to combat the effects of climate change in cities throughout the world. Linking finance and technology to policy and innovation, this highly practical resource outlines a global framework for mitigating and adapting to climate change and for effectively planning and delivering a low-carbon future. This book addresses how cities can work effectively with each other to drive change, the importance of strong leadership and international cooperation, the role of innovative finance and technology to identify new economic opportunities, and more. Throughout the book, the authors address future trends such as the changing streetscape, connected infrastructure and eMobility, and autonomous vehicles, drones, and other emerging technologies. Designed to help all stakeholders build a pathway to a less resource-intensive future, The Climate City: Provides in-depth discussion of the technological, financial, and practical aspects of tackling climate change in urban environmentsDemonstrates why the global economy needs to transition to a low-carbon economyDescribes the role of financial institutions and how they can allocate capital more efficientlyExplains why and how challenges and priorities are different in the global north and southIllustrates how data can improve the ways cities use energy resources and operate transportation systemsDiscusses how citizen action can drive a new, more meaningful way of living in citiesFeatures insights from political leaders such as the Mayor of Copenhagen, the Mayor of Los Angeles and the former Mayor of London and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The Climate City is essential reading for city planners, policy makers, technologists, consultants, finance and business professionals, and general readers wanting to improve the cities in which they work and live.

Callender, Jassen, Building Cities to LAST: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Urbanism. 216 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <665-1606>
ISBN 978-1-03-206606-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-22378-6 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

Building Cities to LAST presents the myriad issues of sustainable urbanism in a clear and concise system, and supports holistic thinking about sustainable development in urban environments by providing four broad measures of urban sustainability that differ radically from other, less long-lived patterns: these are Lifecycle, Aesthetics, Scale, and Technology (LAST). This framework for understanding the relationship between these four measures and the essential types of infrastructure-grouped according to the basic human needs of Food, Shelter, Mobility, and Water-is laid out in a simple and easy-to-understand format. These broad measures and infrastructures address the city as a whole and as a recognizable pattern of human activity and, in turn, increase the ability of cities-and the human race-to LAST. This book will find wide readership particularly among students and young practitioners in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

Carcea, Marco, The Road Towards DemocraCity: A Creative Approach to Transition in a Post-Development Based Society. 224 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <665-1607>
ISBN 978-981-16-3504-5 hard ¥26,737.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book discusses the challenges faced by the homo resaliens and his need for a transition to a more sustainable social, economic, and environmental system. It fills a gap in the existing literature and provides a new perspective by changing the etymology of the word resilience: no more resiliere, but resalio. By comparing and analysing the relevant literature, the author has coined the term homo resaliens (resilient man), in contrast to the failure of the homo oeconomicus, the corruption of the homo politicus, the incompleteness of homo sustinens, and the limits of homo ecologicus. Opening a new debate in which the role of academia and res publica are fundamental to safeguard human communities and future generations, this book will greatly assist governments that wish to understand the socio-political and economic implication of resilience in terms of social inclusiveness and long term social and environmental sustainability.

Certoma, Chiara, Digital Social Innovation: Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance. 169 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <665-1608>
ISBN 978-3-030-80450-3 hard ¥15,798.- (税込) EUR 64.99

This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspective, this ground-breaking analysis of digital social innovation provides the reader with an accessible overview of the way in which urban reproductive processes mobilise the physical and the virtual dimensions of the city and generate distinctive spatial configurations. Together with novel urban narratives and socio-technical imaginaries, these support the existing geometries of power or construct new ones. The author clearly describes contemporary cities as the new battlegrounds for controlling the digital sphere, shaped by the interplay between digital capitalism and resistance movements. In light of grassroots initiatives advanced by cyber-activists, e-makers and hackers, the book unveils the socio-political and cultural underpinnings of the revolution produced by the digital social innovations in the city and the socio-technological regimes supporting them. This author successfully sheds new critical light on traditional innovation studies exploring the debate on digital innovation through the lens of social and cultural geography providing an invaluable reference for those working in this field.

Eckardt, Frank / Bouguerra, Hamidou Maurice (Hrsg.), Stadt und Rassismus: Analysen und Perspektiven fuer eine antirassistische Urbanitaet. 360 S. 2021:10 (Unrast-Vlg., GW) <665-1609>
ISBN 978-3-89771-095-5 paper ¥4,812.- (税込) EUR 19.80

Das Jahr 2020 wird als der Beginn der weltweiten Covid-19-Pandemie in die Geschichte eingehen. Wird dies auch fuer die rassistische Gewalt gelten, die zeitgleich in den USA, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und vielen weiteren Laendern stattfand? Im Fruehjahr und Sommer 2020 nahmen die Proteste der Black-Lives-Matter-Bewegung zunaechst in den USA und bald darauf weltweit eine Dimension an, wie es sie seit den Tagen der afroamerikanischen Buerger*innenrechtsbewegung nicht mehr gegeben hat. In Deutschland forderte der Rechtsterrorismus im Februar 2020 in Hanau neun Todesopfer ? alle mit Migrationsgeschichte. Mit diesem Buch sollen die Zusammenhaenge zwischen den Struk-turen der Stadt und denen des Rassismus sowohl charakterisiert als auch analysiert werden. In welcher Weise wirkt sich Rassismus im staedtischen Alltag, im Bildungswesen, im oeffentlichen Raum, bei der Wohnungssuche oder gegenueber Institutionen wie der Polizei aus? Und in welcher Weise kann dagegen vorgegangen werden? Schliesslich ist die Stadt nicht nur der Ort des rassistischen Geschehens, sondern auch der Raum fuer den antirassistischen Kampf.

Gabauer, Angelika / Knierbein, Sabine et al. (eds.), Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies. 256 pp. 2021:10 (Routledge, UK) <665-1611>
ISBN 978-0-367-46858-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-46857-6 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people's everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices.This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time.

Goldman, Robert, Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification. 236 pp. 2021:7 (Temple U. Pr., US) <665-1614>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2048-0 hard ¥23,449.- (税込) US$ 104.50 *
ISBN 978-1-4399-2049-7 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

HGTV has perfected stories about creating and capturing value in the housing market. But according to Robert Goldman, this lifestyle network's beloved flagship programs, Flip or Flop, Property Brothers, and Fixer Upper-where people revitalize modern spaces and reinvent property values-offer "fairy tales" in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. The cable channel's seductive, bingeable programs may show how to find and extract value from properties, but, in fact, they insidiously ignore the realities of the real estate and mortgage markets, housing inequality, gentrification, economic insecurity, and even homelessness. In effect, HGTV has turned house flipping into a master narrative about getting ahead in America during an era of otherwise uneasy economic prospects.HGTV pictures its insular moral economy as an alternative to a crisis-ridden neoliberal finance system that shaped landscapes of foreclosure and financial uncertainty for millions of households. Renovating Value explores the circuitry of consumer credit and debt, and a rent-gap model of gentrification that charts a path to the rehabilitation of Value. Goldman shrewdly critiques the aspirational myth of adding value to a home simply by using imagination, elbow grease, and aesthetic know-how.

Kaufmann, Vincent / Audikana, Ander / Drevon, Guillaume, Europe Beyond Mobility: Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration. (Networked Urban Mobilities Series) 136 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <665-1618>
ISBN 978-0-367-34323-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-34322-4 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Mobility, which has represented a critical scientific category and political driver, is currently under strong public scrutiny: has mobility lost its potential for social cohesion and political integration? Europe Beyond Mobility: Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration assesses this question by focusing on the European integration process, conceptualized as a political project for the promotion of different flows of mobility.Mobility has been a fundamental tool for territorial strength and political integration among European countries. Based on a realistic understanding of the potentials and limits of mobility, this book pleads for a "resonant mobility" in the interest of a renovated European integration process. It examines how, in opposition to those advocating for national borders and mobility restrictions, the EU needs to explore new regulatory models which limit mobility's adverse social, economic, and environmental impacts and make accessible the benefits of alternative flow models. It also provides an analytical framework for the study of current trends of mobility limitation, migration restriction and re-bordering, and offers a complementary and innovative framework for the study of globalization.Europe Beyond Mobility will be of interest to academics and students as well as policy makers and practitioners internationally in the fields of mobility, migration and border studies.

van der Graaf, Shenja / Nguyen Long, Le Anh / Veeckman, Carina, Co-Creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology. (Emerald Points) 140 pp. 2021:11 (Emerald, UK) <665-1622>
ISBN 978-1-80043-603-9 hard ¥13,464.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Cities are possibly the most dynamic and important administrative units today. Cities play big roles in addressing many of the complex challenges the world is facing today, including climate change, public health, and migration. This places pressure on public administration and the public sector, to do more with less, particularly at the local level where government services have the most direct impact on people's everyday lives as well as paradigmatic societal shifts associated with the rise of platform economies and new consumption patterns which transform public service delivery whilst changing public expectations. Co-creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology highlights ways to meet these new demands with a more robust value-based perspective on public service development and delivery, specifically via co-creation. Co-creation is a way to plan, execute and evaluate public service design and delivery for contemporary cities, a valid means to support the 'balancing act' of promoting efficient and cost-effective governance. Built on insights gained through years of experience with and research on co-creation, as well as testimonials from practitioners, this volume presents collaborative and innovative solutions associated with smart city ideals, while continuing to develop a citizen-centric focus that is sustainable over time. Co-creation and Smart Cities helps structure co-creation processes that foster responsible innovation and a systemic, value-based approach to sustainable urban development. This title will be of interest to government officials, researchers and bottom-up communities looking to implement methods for co-creation within cities.

Addaney, Michael / Cobbinah, Patrick (eds.), Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa. 408 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <665-1465>
ISBN 978-1-03-202016-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-202018-1 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa.This book addresses topics including challenges to spatial urban development, how spatial planning is delivered, how different urbanisation variables influence the development of different forms of urban systems and settlements in Africa, how city authorities could use old and new methods of land administration to produce sustainable urban spaces in Africa, and the role of local activism is causing important changes in the built environment. Chapters are written by a diverse range of African scholars and practitioners in urban planning and policy design, environmental science and policy, sociology, agriculture, natural resources management, environmental law, and politics.Urban Africa has huge resource potential - both human and natural resources - that can stimulate sustainable development when effectively harnessed. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides support for the SDGs in urban Africa and will be of interest to students and researchers, professionals and policymakers, and readers of urban studies, spatial planning, geography, governance, and other social sciences.

Feltran, Gabriel (ed.), Stolen Cars: A Journey Through Sao Paulo's Urban Conflict. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series) 288 pp. 2022:1 (Wiley, US) <665-1527>
ISBN 978-1-119-68611-8 hard ¥21,305.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-119-68612-5 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economiesProvides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chain Draws from empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction Highlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformations Uses an ethnographic narrative to show how urban development?produce various forms of illegality and violent crime

Godfrey, Brian J., Preserving Whose City?: Memory, Place, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro. 252 pp. 2021:5 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) * paper 2021:4 <665-1532>
ISBN 978-1-5381-3654-6 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-3662-1 paper ¥9,873.- (税込) US$ 44.00 *

With Brazil's largest concentration of historic landmarks and famous landscapes, Rio de Janeiro's passionate heritage debates have helped to define both the city and the country. Taking a critical preservationist stance, Brian Godfrey explores how historic designation and urban rebranding have shaped Rio's distinctive sense of place.Official heritage programs date from the 1930s, when federal authorities centralized power and promoted nationalism. The city began a heritage-based strategy of urban revitalization and rebranding in the 1980s--the "Cultural Corridor" of historic places downtown. Subsequent rediscovery of the old "Little Africa" district and continuing struggles of favela communities have emphasized narratives of "counter-memory" against racism, social injustice, and governmental neglect. Meanwhile environmental activism has encouraged programs to conserve the historic landscapes of Rio's famous mountains, forests, beaches, and bays. While historic preservation often presumes to conserve or restore heritage sites according to a preexisting authenticity, Godfrey shows how the past actually becomes a resource for present-day interests. Memory brokers have guided the reinvention of historic places, determining whose past has been preserved. Debates over the "right of remembrance," he argues, shape place memories and identities in this spectacular if highly unequal megacity, which has much to teach the world about conserving cultural diversity and urban environments.

Trejo Nieto, Alejandra / Nino Amezquita, Jose L. (eds.), Metropolitan Governance in Latin America. (Regions and Cities) 200 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <665-1548>
ISBN 978-0-367-61567-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-61569-7 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity. It examines Latin American metropolitan governance by focusing on the issue of public service provision and comparatively examining five of the largest and most complex urban agglomerations in the region: Buenos Aires, Bogota, Lima, Mexico City and Santiago.The volume identifies and discusses the most pressing challenges associated with metropolitan coordination and the coverage, quality and financial sustainability of service delivery. It also reveals a number of spatial inequalities associated with inadequate provision, which may perpetuate poverty and other inequalities.Metropolitan Governance in Latin America will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers tackling themes of urban planning, spatial inequality, public service provision and Latin American urban development.

Garcia, Emilio / Vale, Brenda / Vale, Robert, Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future. 310 pp. 2021:7 (Springer, GW) <665-1570>
ISBN 978-3-030-77782-1 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects. This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop greater resilience.The book challenges all agents and institutions in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their residents and users to think differently about built environment so as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its causes. .

Hoffmann, Ellen / Buerkert, Andreas et al. (eds.), The Rural-Urban Interface: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru. (The Urban Book Series) 203 pp. 2021:9 (Springer, GW) <665-1398>
ISBN 978-3-030-79971-7 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these processes are interlinked and mutually depend on each other. This book attempts to integrate studies from a wide scope of disciplinary perspectives and at different spatial scales under the framework of complex social-ecological systems.Agriculture is the prime example of a system in which humans interact with their biophysical environment, and the production systems in the rural-urban interface are profoundly affected by urbanisation. Intensification and diversification of agriculture are immediate responses to urban pressures and demands, and are linked as much to resource (over-)use as to commercialisation. Yet, little is known about the spatial patterns of agricultural transformation in areas of urban sprawl.The focus of the contributions here is explicitly on the interface, in-between the rural and urban systems. It thus differs from the urban-centered perspective of city planners as well as from the rural predominance in most of the agricultural research. In the present volume this focus is implemented by analysing samples along a spatial gradient representing different stages of urbanization. Ongoing time series analyses and a panel study will complement the spatial approach by a temporal dimension.

Kateja, Alpana / Jain, Rashmi (eds.), Urban Growth and Environmental Issues in India. 337 pp. 2021:9 (Springer, GW) <665-1403>
ISBN 978-981-16-4272-2 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India. The contributors, who are coming from diverse disciplines, examine socioeconomic, administrative, and environmental threats emanating from urbanization (e.g. climate change, health governance, energy issues, pollution, and e-waste management) and suggest various measures for dealing with the challenges of rapid urbanization. Offering a valuable resource for all those interested in understanding the multifaceted dimensions of urban growth, the book appeals to researchers, students, and policymakers, interested in the development studies and urban studies.

Hoercher, Ferenc, The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? (Political Theory for Today) 298 pp. 2021:6 (Lexington Books, US) <665-1096>
ISBN 978-1-79361-082-9 hard ¥27,376.- (税込) US$ 122.00 *

The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke, underestimated the political significance and value of the community of urban citizens, called 'civitas', united by local customs, or even a formal or informal urban constitution at a certain location, which had a recognizable countenance, with natural and man-made, architectural marks, called 'urbs'. Recalling the golden age of the European city in ancient Greece and Rome, and offering a detailed description of its turbulent life in the Renaissance Italian city-states, it makes a case for the city not only as a hotbed of modern democracy, but also as a remedy for some of the distortions of political life in the alienated contemporary, centralized, Weberian bureaucratic state. Overcoming the north-south divide, or the core and periphery partition, the book's material is particularly rich in Central European case studies. All in all, it is an enjoyable read which offers sound arguments to revisit the offer of the small and middle-sized European town, in search of a more sustainable future for Europe.