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

Gordon, Daanika, Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation. 288 pp. 2022:5 (New York U. Pr., US) <671-998>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1404-6 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-1405-3 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two districts in "River City," a profoundly segregated rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly white neighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in community problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black communities reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race, despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing unfolds in cities across America. Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguring segregated landscapes. She illuminates an underexplored source of racially disparate policing: the role of law enforcement in urban growth politics. Many postindustrial cities are increasing the divisions of segregation, Gordon argues, by investing in downtowns, gentrified neighborhoods, and entertainment corridors, while framing marginalized central city neighborhoods as sources of criminal and civic threat that must be contained and controlled. Gordon paints a sobering picture of modern-day segregation, and how the police enforce its racial borders, showing us two separate, unequal sides of the same city: one where rich, white neighborhoods are protected, and another where poor, Black neighborhoods are punished.

Vitiello, Domenic, The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia. 306 pp. 2022:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <671-933>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6469-1 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-6480-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It is a wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable newcomers. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often through the work of social movements and community organizations or civil society. Philadelphia has been an important center of sanctuary and reflects the growing diversity of American cities in recent decades. One result of this diversity is that sanctuary means different things for different immigrant, refugee, and receiving communities. Vitiello explores the migration, settlement, and local and transnational civil society of Central Americans, Southeast Asians, Liberians, Arabs, Mexicans, and their allies in the region across the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Together, their experiences illuminate the diversity of immigrants and refugees in the United States and what is at stake for different people, and for all of us, in our immigration debates.

Bignami, Filippo / Cuppini, Niccolo / Hanakata, N. (eds.), Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis for An Epistemological Foresight. (Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change) 272 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-796>
ISBN 978-0-367-62564-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally. It takes mega-events as an instance to analyse urban transformations and their effects on citizenship.With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book presents innovative and multidimensional analyses of mega-events with an international selection of case studies. The work provides a grounded theorisation of mega-events in the first part and scrutinizes its practices and processes in the second. Each chapter explores mega-events as crucial drivers and accelerators of urban and citizenship transformations. Rather than just focusing on a staged momentum, this book takes stock of the 'before' and 'after' that these events imply for the urban condition.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in urban studies, human geography, economics, architecture, planning, sociology, political science. It will also appeal to professionals and policy makers engaged in the planning, hosting and management of mega-events.

COVID-19 and Livable Cities in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note. 32 pp. 2020:12 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-603>
ISBN 978-92-9262-637-2 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

This guidance note aims to support cities in ADB developing member countries to effectively and immediately respond to the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and Obuild back betterO in the short and medium terms.COVID-19 is causing an unprecedented global impact on cities across the world. The proposed approaches and actions discussed in this guidance note are anchored to the core principles of ADBOs Strategy 2030 Operational Plan for Priority 4: Making Cities More Livable and also considers the public health and economic impacts of the pandemic. The guidance note is one of a series produced by ADB for key sectors and thematic areas.

Habib, Najibullah / Rau, Stefan / Roth, Susann, Healthy and Age-Friendly Cities in the People's Republic of China: Proposal for Health Impact Assessment and Healthy and Age-Friendly City Action and Management Planning. 76 pp. 2020:12 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-629>
ISBN 978-92-9262-477-4 paper ¥5,385.- (税込) US$ 24.00

Acharya, Anirban, Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India. (Routledge Research on Urban Asia) 288 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-387>
ISBN 978-0-367-46572-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell. The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling and analysing the inherent tensions among the constitutive elements of neoliberal governance, namely, growth imperative, market activism, and corporatization, and demonstrates its implications for the formal/informal boundaries of the economy. A useful addition to the existing literatures on the right to the city, informal economies, and the shapes that neoliberalism takes in the non-west, the book provides a non-western counter to accounts of neoliberalism and will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Urban Studies, and Political Economy.

Office of the Special Project Facilitator's Lessons Learned: Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Areas Development Investment Program, Tranche 1. 46 pp. 2020:11 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-346>
ISBN 978-92-9262-389-0 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) US$ 21.00

Pacific Urban Development, Water, and Sanitation Sector Road Map 2021-2025. 34 pp. 2021:5 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-351>
ISBN 978-92-9262-810-9 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

This document lays out the vision and strategy of ADB for sustainable urban development programs, projects, and technical assistance in its Pacific developing member countries from 2021 to 2025.Urban development plays a key role in contributing to stronger, healthier, and more inclusive economies in the Pacific. This document provides an overview of the key constraints to sustainable urban development and more livable cities, as well as opportunities for deepening and scaling up ADB support and engagement in the region. The priority areas highlighted for ADB's support are based on Pacific clients' ongoing and emerging needs.

Wall, Ed, Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London. 176 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1734>
ISBN 978-1-03-216357-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-216356-7 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning, Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups, market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured.The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns, revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed, regulated and lived. Through in-depth research, Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies, the realisation of visual priorities, and uneven relations between private interests, public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities.This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways-from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians.

Coulter, Claire / Melis, Alessandro / Brown, Julia (eds.), Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management. 216 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <671-1640>
ISBN 978-0-367-63198-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-63197-0 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdansk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results from each city are collated into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust decision-making on future urban development.The book presents contributions from CRUNCH, a transdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners whose expertise spans urban climate modelling; food, water, and energy management; the design of resilient public space; collecting better urban data; and the development of smart city technology. Whilst previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have focused on large, transnational cases, this book explores local ways to use the Food-Water-Energy nexus to improve urban resilience. It suggests tangible ways in which the cities and communities around us can become both more efficient and more climate resilient through small changes to their existing infrastructure.Over half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and this is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. We urgently need to make our cities more resilient. This book provides a planning tool for decision-making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences including urbanists, environmentalists, architects, urban designers, and city planners, as well as students and scholars interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience.Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Acuto, Michele / Seijas, Andreina / McArthur, J. et al., Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy. 142 pp. 2021:11 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-1703>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1827-5 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5292-1828-2 paper ¥6,913.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99 *

This accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and private sectors. Offering invaluable insights for the future of night-time governance during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, this book deepens our understanding of the benefits, challenges and impacts of a neglected aspect of the economy.

Amini, M. Hadi / Shafie-khah, Miadreza (eds.), Cyberphysical Smart Cities Infrastructures: Optimal Operation and Intelligent Decision Making. 320 pp. 2022:4 (Wiley, US) <671-1705>
ISBN 978-1-119-74830-4 hard ¥32,750.- (税込) US$ 145.95 *

Learn to deploy novel algorithms to improve and secure smart city infrastructure In Cyberphysical Smart Cities Infrastructures: Optimal Operation and Intelligent Decision Making, accomplished researchers Drs. M. Hadi Amini and Miadreza Shafie-Khah deliver a crucial exploration of new directions in the science and engineering of deploying novel and efficient computing algorithms to enhance the efficient operation of the networks and communication systems underlying smart city infrastructure. The book covers special issues on the deployment of these algorithms with an eye to helping readers improve the operation of smart cities. The editors present concise and accessible material from a collection of internationally renowned authors in areas as diverse as computer science, electrical engineering, operation research, civil engineering, and the social sciences. They also include discussions of the use of artificial intelligence to secure the operations of cyberphysical smart city infrastructure and provide several examples of the applications of novel theoretical algorithms. Readers will also enjoy: Thorough introductions to fundamental algorithms for computing and learning, large-scale optimizations, control theory for large-scale systemsExplorations of machine learning and intelligent decision making in cyberphysical smart cities, including smart energy systems and intelligent transportation networksIn-depth treatments of intelligent decision making in cyberphysical smart city infrastructure and optimization in networked smart cities Perfect for senior undergraduate and graduate students of electrical and computer engineering, computer science, civil engineering, telecommunications, information technology, and business, Cyberphysical Smart Cities Infrastructures is an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to solve real-world problems in smart cities.

Banihashemi, Saeed / Sohi, Sepideh Zarepour, Data-centric Regenerative Built Environment: Big Data for Sustainable Regeneration. (Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia) 168 pp. 2022:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <671-1706>
ISBN 978-0-367-68992-6 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-0-367-68993-3 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

This book examines the use of big data in regenerative urban environment and how data helps in functional planning and design solutions.This book is one of the first endeavors to present the data-driven methods for regenerative built environments and integrate it with the novel design solutions. It looks at four specific areas in which data is used - urban land use, transportation and traffic, environmental concerns and social issues - and draws on the theoretical literature concerning regenerative built environments to explain how the power of big data can achieve the systematic integration of urban design solutions. It then applies an in-depth case study method on Asian metropolises including Beijing and Tehran to bring the developed innovation into a research-led practical context.This book is a useful reference for anyone interested in driving sustainable regeneration of our urban environments through big data-centric design solutions.

Borsi, Katharina / Ekici, Didem / Hale, J. A. et al. (eds.), Housing and the City. 320 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1708>
ISBN 978-1-03-215656-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-215658-3 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth-century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the past and the present that suggest that we can live and work differently. While the contributions are diverse in their theoretical approach and geographical situation, their juxtaposition yields transversal connections in the conception of the home and the city and highlights the diversity of architectural solutions in the formation of housing and its communities. The collection also reveals architecture's contribution to the construction of the self and communities, the individual and the collective-as both urban spatial entities and socio-political concepts. Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics, and practitioners interested in the history, theory, or current design of housing. At a time when cities are witnessing new ways of working, changing social demographics, increased geographical mobility, and mass migrations, as well as the pervasive threat of the climate crisis-all trends exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic-Housing and the City presents a historical and theoretical reflection on the question: what does it mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century?

Briesen, Detlef / Strubelt, Wendelin (eds.), A New Beginning?: Spatial Planning and Research in Europe between 1945 and 1975. 500 S. 2022:2 (Campus, GW) <671-1709>
ISBN 978-3-593-51509-0 paper ¥11,911.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

How spatial planning was transformed in Europe in the postwar period. Spatial planning is a typical European attempt to shape the development of societies by ordering their territory. It emerged in the nineteenth century from colonial settlement and conquest projections, urban reform, and conservative or even fascist fantasies of order. With this legacy, further burdened by the Soviet planned economy, spatial planning entered a new epoch after 1945. Since then, it has attempted to participate in the reconstruction of Europe and to accompany the path into modern society, mass democracy, and mass prosperity. Therefore, parallel to the social changes between 1945 and 1975, a reform of spatial planning began from Spain to Germany and from the Netherlands to Italy. However, these developments found themselves in competition with the specialized planning of the ministries, economic framework planning, and the market economy. In the process, spatial planning was transformed, becoming an institutional part of the European legal and social states.

Engle, Jayne / Agyeman, Julian / Chung-Tiam-Fook, T. (eds.), Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities. (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City) 264 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <671-1711>
ISBN 978-1-03-205910-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-205911-2 paper ¥9,507.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99 *

Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love-matters.Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003199816, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Farrugia, David / Ravn, Signe, (eds.), Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins. 272 pp. 2022:6 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-1712>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1204-4 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new understandings of the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden, and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of intergenerational change, social mobility and identity. By exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality. Chapter 10 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

Imrie, Rob, Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently. 298 pp. 2021:10 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-1717>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2051-3 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5292-2052-0 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.

Knaap, Gerrit-Jan / Lewis, Rebecca et al. (eds.), Handbook on Smart Growth: Promise, Principles, and Prospects for Planning. 448 pp. 2022:7 (E. Elgar, UK) <671-1718>
ISBN 978-1-78990-468-0 hard ¥46,400.- (税込) GB￡ 161.00 *

This timely Research Handbook examines the evolution of smart growth over the past three decades, mapping the trajectory from its original principles to its position as an important paradigm in urban planning today. Critically analysing the original concept of smart growth and how it has been embedded in state and local plans, contributions from top scholars in the field illustrate what smart growth has accomplished since its conception, as well as to what extent it has achieved its goals.Providing an overview of the history of smart growth, the book further examines its changing governance over time, and the new horizons for smart growth, exploring ways to confront contemporary challenges in urban planning. Illuminating key issues in the field, from urban sprawl to gentrification, that the original principles failed to address, this insightful Handbook advocates for the expansion of smart growth principles to meet the emerging challenges of the modern world, concluding with an agenda for a "smart growth 2.0". Informative and comprehensive, this Handbook will prove to be essential reading for researchers, academics and students of urban planning. Its proposals for the future evolution of smart growth will also serve as an accessible and up-to-date reference point for urban planning professionals, activists and policymakers.

Kornblum, William, Marseille, Port to Port. 200 pp. 2022:6 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <671-1719>
ISBN 978-0-231-20506-1 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20507-8 paper ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Meyboom, AnnaLisa / Mckay, Sherry, Design Capital: The Hidden Value of Design in Infrastructure. 272 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1722>
ISBN 978-0-367-56546-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-56543-5 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Well-designed infrastructure brings social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure, but competition for scarce government funds and a general public perception of infrastructure as mere efficiency, has often left design ill-considered. This book provides designers with the tools needed to argue for the value of design: the 'design capital' as the authors term it. In naming and defining design capital, design can once again become part of the discussion and realization of every infrastructure project.Design Capital offers strategies and tools for justifying public spending on design considerations in infrastructure projects. Design has the ability to make infrastructure resonate with cultural or social value, as seen in the case studies, which bestows infrastructure with the potential to accrue design capital. Support for this proposition is drawn from various methodologies of economic valuation and Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital, explanation of design methodology and education and a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The book also addresses some of the more controversial outcomes associated with contemporary infrastructure: gentrification, globalization and consumer tourism.With this book, designers can make a stronger case for the value of design in public infrastructure.

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Rahman, Mohammed Mahbubur (ed.), Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism. 472 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1725>
ISBN 978-1-03-206751-3 hard ¥47,553.- (税込) GB￡ 165.00 *

Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism is the first resource to address cities' transformations of their coastlines and riverbanks and the resulting effects on environment, culture, and identity in a genuinely global context. Spanning cities from Gdansk to Georgetown, this reference for design, development, and planning explores the transition of waterfronts from industrial and port zones to crowd-drawing urban spectacles within the frameworks of urban development, economics, ecology, governance, globalization, preservation, and sustainability. A collection of contextual studies, local perspectives, project reviews, and analyses of evolution and emerging trends provides critical insight into the phenomenon of waterfront development and urbanism in cities from the East to the West.Features:Explores the transformation of waterfronts from industrial hubs to urban playgrounds through the lenses of preservation, governance, economics, ecology, and more.Presents chapter-length case studies drawn from cities in China, Bangladesh, Turkey, the United States, Malaysia, the European Union, Egypt, and other countries.Includes contributions from an interdisciplinary team of international scholars and professionals, a much-needed corrective to the historical exclusion of researchers and issues from the Global South.An ideal reference for graduate students, scholars, and professionals in urban planning, architecture, geography, and history, the Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism deserves to be on the shelf of urban authorities and any internationally minded academic or practitioner in real estate development, water management, preservation, or tourism.

Robinson, Jennifer, Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series) 320 pp. 2022:5 (Wiley, US) <671-1726>
ISBN 978-1-119-69751-0 hard ¥21,305.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-119-69755-8 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson's approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.' Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore 'How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.' AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe. The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.

Saito, Leland T., Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America. 272 pp. 2022:7 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <671-1729>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3239-4 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3252-3 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction led to the displacement of low-income and working-class racial minorities, as city officials targeted these neighborhoods for demolition in order to spur economic growth and bring in affluent residents. Responding to the displacement, there emerged a coalition of unions, community organizers, and faith-based groups advocating for policy change. In Building Downtown Los Angeles Leland Saito traces these two parallel trends through specific construction projects and the backlash they provoked. He uses these events to theorize the past and present processes of racial formation and the racialization of place, drawing new insights on the relationships between race, place, and policy. Saito brings to bear the importance of historical events on contemporary processes of gentrification and integrates the fluidity of racial categories into his analysis. He explores these forces in action, as buyers and entrepreneurs meet in the real estate marketplace, carrying with them a fraught history of exclusion and vast disparities in wealth among racial groups.

Werthmann, Katja, City Life in Africa: Anthropological Insights. 248 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1583>
ISBN 978-0-367-69924-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-61613-7 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers' own notions, practices, and reflections. Social anthropologists have studied city life in Africa since the early 20th century. Their works have addressed a number of questions that are relevant until today: What happens to rural people who move to the city? What kinds of livelihoods do they pursue? How does city life affect moralities and practices connected with gender roles, marriage, parenthood, and intergenerational relations? In which social situations are ethnic and other collective identifications relevant? How do people make a home in the city? What forms of authority and leadership become relevant in urban governance? How do people talk about city life? This book asks what anthropologists have come to learn about Africans' views on city life. It provides a critical acclaim of ethnographies in English, French, and German and elucidates anthropology's contribution to understanding city life in Africa. It highlights the significance of female, African and Diaspora scholars for an emerging urban anthropology of Africa. The chapters are organized according to everyday activities of city dwellers: moving, connecting, governing, working, dwelling, and wayfinding.The book will be an essential read for students and researchers of social anthropology, African and urban studies, but also for professionals in research and development organizations, thinktanks, and other institutions concerned with urban Africa.

Perez, Miguel, The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile. 256 pp. 2022:4 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <671-1607>
ISBN 978-1-5036-1496-3 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3152-6 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins-and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity). From 2011 to 2015, anthropologist Miguel Perez conducted fieldwork among the pobladores of Santiago, where the urban dwellers and activists he met were part of an emerging social movement that demanded dignified living conditions, the right to remain in their neighborhoods of origin, and, more broadly, recognition as citizens entitled to basic rights. This ethnographic account raises questions about state policies that conceptualize housing as a commodity rather than a right, and how poor urban dwellers seek recognition and articulate political agency against the backdrop of neoliberal policies. By scrutinizing how Chilean pobladores constitute themselves as political subjects, this book reveals the mechanisms through which housing activists develop new imaginaries of citizenship in a country where the market has been the dominant force organizing social life for almost forty years. Perez considers the limits and potentialities of urban movements, framed by poor people's involvement in subsidy-based programs, as well as the capacity of low-income residents to struggle against the commodification of rights by claiming the right to dignity: a demand based on a moral category that would ultimately become the driving force behind Chile's 2019 social uprising.

Alagona, Peter S., The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities. 296 pp. 2022:4 (U. California Pr., US) <671-1633>
ISBN 978-0-520-38631-0 hard ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals.The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more large and charismatic wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities-the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems-grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet? The Accidental Ecosystem is the first book to explain this phenomenon from a deep historical perspective, and its focus includes a broad range of species and cities. Cities covered include New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Austin, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Digging into the natural history of cities and unpacking our conception of what it means to be wild, this book provides fascinating context for why animals are thriving more in cities than outside of them. Author Peter S. Alagona argues that the proliferation of animals in cities is largely the unintended result of human decisions that were made for reasons having little to do with the wild creatures themselves. Considering what it means to live in diverse, multispecies communities and exploring how human and non-human members of communities might thrive together, Alagona goes beyond the tension between those who embrace the surge in urban wildlife and those who think of animals as invasive or as public safety hazards. The Accidental Ecosystem calls on readers to reimagine interspecies coexistence in shared habitats, as well as policies that are based on just, humane, and sustainable approaches.

Massicard, Elise, Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey. (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) 336 pp. 2022:5 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <671-1531>
ISBN 978-1-5036-2841-0 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3185-4 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always associate them with the central government. Street-Level Governing is the first book to investigate how muhtars carry out their role-not only what they are supposed to do, but how they actually operate-to provide an ethnographic study of the state as viewed from its margins. It starts from the premise that the seeming "margin" of state administration is not peripheral at all, but instructive as to how it functions. As Elise Massicard shows, muhtars exist at the intersection of everyday life and the exercise of power. Their position offers a personalized point of contact between citizens and state institutions, enabling close oversight of the citizenry, yet simultaneously projecting the sense of an accessible state to individuals. Challenging common theories of the state, Massicard outlines how the position of the muhtar throws into question an assumed dichotomy between domination and social resistance, and suggests that considerations of circumvention and accommodation are normal attributes of state-society functioning.

Odendaal, Nancy, Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities. 176 pp. 2022:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-1573>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1856-5 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5292-1857-2 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

The 'smart city' is often promoted as a technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly critical of techno-optimistic narratives, the political imagination is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly applied to intractable problems. This book provides a much-needed alternative view, exploring how 'home-grown' digital disruption, driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable resource for scholars working in the intersection of science and technology studies, urban and economic geography and sociology.

Harnessing Uzbekistan's Potential of Urbanization: National Urban Assessment. 84 pp. 2021:11 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1465>
ISBN 978-92-9269-031-1 paper ¥6,956.- (税込) US$ 31.00 *

The National Urban Assessment for Uzbekistan examines the progress of urbanization and the current state of government policies and programs in the country. It recommends a shift toward sustainable urbanization and reforms in urban planning.In terms of sustainable urbanization, particular focus is given on economy, equity, environmental quality, and climate change as well as enhancing the quality and reliability of urban services and increasing the supply of affordable housing, among others. The report is also a useful guide for strategic investment planning across key urban infrastructure sectors in Uzbekistan.

Routray, Sanjeev, The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poorand the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. (South Asia in Motion) 336 pp. 2022:7 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <671-1502>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3084-0 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3213-4 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available-but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves.

Sharma, Manoj / Alipalo, Melissa, Rajasthan Rising: A Partnership for Strong Institutions and More Livable Cities. 150 pp. 2021:5 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1505>
ISBN 978-92-9262-665-5 paper ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

This publication showcases how ADB and the Government of Rajasthan have partnered together to bring sustainable development to the cities and towns of Rajasthan, in northwest India.Since 1998, the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP), extensive work has been undertaken to address urban challenges such as widespread poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and a harsh climate. This publication reflects on RajasthanOs development issues and solutions and showcases how infrastructure investments and institutional support under the RUIDP have improved the economic conditions, health, and overall quality of life of citizens. It also discusses lessons learned and future priorities.

100 Climate Actions from Cities in Asia and the Pacific. 152 pp. 2021:9 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1352>
ISBN 978-92-9262-870-3 paper ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

This publication showcases 100 projects and programs tackling climate change and its impacts on people and the environment in cities across Asia and the Pacific.The climate actions are drawn from multiple sectors-renewable energy, carbon finance, transport, land use, information and communication technology, climate action plans, building energy efficiency, solid waste management, sustainable and low-carbon communities, and climate resilience. The examples show how city-level initiatives contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience, all while delivering economic, environmental, health, and social co-benefits.

Susantono, Bambang / Guild, Robert (eds.), Creating Livable Asian Cities. 452 pp. 2021:4 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1382>
ISBN 978-92-9262-782-9 paper ¥14,586.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Friedman, Eli, The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City. 336 pp. 2022:5 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <671-1405>
ISBN 978-0-231-20508-5 hard ¥31,416.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20509-2 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship.The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity, constant mobility, and degraded educational opportunities. Using the school as a lens on urban life, Eli Friedman investigates how the state manages flows of people into the city. He demonstrates that urban governments are providing quality public education to those who need it least: school admissions for nonlocals heavily favor families with high levels of economic and cultural capital. Those deemed not useful are left to enroll their children in precarious resource-starved private schools that sometimes are subjected to forced demolition. Over time, these populations are shunted away to smaller locales with inferior public services.Based on extensive ethnographic research and hundreds of in-depth interviews, this interdisciplinary book details the policy framework that produces unequal outcomes as well as providing a fine-grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens.

Saguin, Kristian Karlo, Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier. 232 pp. 2022:5 (U. California Pr., US) <671-1455>
ISBN 978-0-520-38264-0 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-38266-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people-powerful and marginalized-interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge.

関恒樹著　フィリピンにおける都市、環境、トランスナショナリズム
Seki, Koki, City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines: Reconceptualizing "the Social" from the Global South. (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World) 256 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1456>
ISBN 978-1-03-212382-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state. He deals with topics including urban poverty, environmental degradation, and transnational migration. Throughout these chapters, Seki elaborates on the modes of security and protection that people living at the margins of global capitalism create through mobilizing their sociality and networks. He traces the emerging configuration of "the social," a collectivity and connectedness that ensures a sense of security in life among people. The social can be defined as an idea or institution, which had enabled formal and impersonal solidarity such as that which provided the underpinnings of the modern welfare states of the West during the mid-20th century. In the twenty-first century the social in this context is experiencing a fundamental reconfiguration as it faces deepening insecurity, risk, and the precariousness of the post-Welfare State or post-Fordist regime. What are the contours of the social emerging in an "unlikely place" of the Philippines amid contemporary insecurity and precariousness? A vital resource for scholars of the Philippines, and of anthropology and social policy in the Global South more widely.

Lajoux, Alexandra Reed, Empowering Municipal Sustainability: A Guide for Towns, Cities, and Citizens. (The Alexandra Lajoux Corporate Governance Series) XV, 210 pp. 2021:5 (de Gruyter, GW) <671-1177>
ISBN 978-3-11-068981-5 paper ¥9,710.- (税込) EUR 39.95 *

Amongst growing awareness over the past half century that human activity threatens our natural environment, many of the world’s largest cities have played a role in the sustainability movement, as seen by such initiatives as Day of Cities sponsored by the United Nations in 2019. So far, local governments in towns, smaller cities, and counties have not played a prominent role in the green movement. This book, including several interviews with city mayors, is a guide for local governments and citizens wishing to launch sustainability campaigns and programs that make a lasting difference in our world. Alexandra Reed Lajoux addresses the popular "green city" topic but focuses on smaller municipalities (towns, small cities, counties), which are more numerous than big cities, and in greater need of guidance. The book discusses the realities of municipal leadership such as budgeting and taxes and financing "urban" renewal projects. It will appeal to a broad range of town or city government employees and elected officials contemplating the issues of managing and funding sustainability including growth, parks, traffic, conservation, power, trash, waste, flood, and "green" issues that all localities worldwide face at some level.

Hinze, Annika M. / Judd, Dennis R., City Politics: Cities and Suburbs in 21st Century America. 11th ed. 552 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <671-1210>
ISBN 978-1-03-200641-3 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-200635-2 paper ¥23,052.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99 *

City Politics has received praise for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity.The book's enduring appeal lies in its persuasive explanation, careful attention to historical detail, and accessible and elegant way of teaching the complexity and breadth of urban and regional politics which unfold at the intersection of spatial, cultural, economic, and policy dynamics. This 11th edition has been thoroughly updated while retaining the popular structure of past editions.Key updates include:* Individual chapters introducing students to pressing urban issues such as race and racism, gentrification, sustainability and the environment, urban crises, shrinking cities, immigration, and suburbanization, political polarization, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on cities* The most recent census data integrated throughout to provide current figures for analysis, discussion, and a more nuanced understanding of current trends.* The effects of the events of 2020 on cities - namely the Coronavirus pandemic; the murder of George Floyd and its aftermath, and the growth of the Black Lives Matter Movement; and the U.S. presidential election in November* The new and present challenges of the climate crisis, and its growing significance for cities.Taught on its own, or supplemented with the optional reader American Urban Politics in a Global Age for more advanced readers, City Politics remains the definitive text on urban politics - and how they have evolved in the United States over time. This is a comprehensive resource for a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as established researchers in the discipline.This book is accompanied by Support Material online: www.routledge.com/9781032006352