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

Amin, Ash / Lancione, Michele (eds.), Grammars of the Urban Ground. 264 pp. 2022:6 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-925>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1571-0 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1833-9 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race theory as well as the ontological turn in urban studies, they propose a mode of analysis that resists the staple of siloed categories such as urban "economy," "society," and "politics." In addition to addressing key concepts of urban studies such as dispossession and scale, the contributors examine the infrastructures of plutocratic life in London, reconfigure notions of gentrification as a process of racial banishment, and seek out alternative archives for knowledge about urban density. They also present case studies of city life in the margins and peripheries of Sao Paulo, Kinshasa, Nairobi, and Jakarta. In so doing, they offer a foundation for better understanding the connective and aggregative forces of city-making and the entanglements and relations that constitute cities and their everyday politics. Contributors. Ash Amin, Teresa Caldeira, Filip De Boeck, Suzanne Hall, Caroline Knowles, Michele Lancione, Colin McFarlane, Natalie Oswin, Edgar Pieterse, Ananya Roy, AbdouMaliq Simone, Tatiana Thieme, Nigel Thrift, Mariana Valverde

Bonous-Hammarth, Marguerite (ed.), Bridging Marginality through Inclusive Higher Education. (Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality) 298 pp. 2022:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-928>
ISBN 978-981-16-7999-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the changing influences of diversity in American higher education. The volume offers evidence and recommendations to positively shape inclusive learning and engagement of students, faculty, staff and community across the complex terrains of urban, suburban, and rural organizations within higher education today. Chapters highlight critical collaborations across student affairs and academic affairs, and delve into milestones addressing access, retention, engagement, and thriving within distinctive institutional types (e.g., research, liberal arts, community colleges, Minority Serving Institutions). Authors also explore the nuanced changes occurring against the contemporary backdrop of COVID-19 experiences - including the rise of anti-Asian racism, the salience of implicit biases, and the disparate access to and impacts of health services. Essential chapters refocus our consideration about the trajectories of historically underrepresented groups and their peers (including, African Americans, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous people, individuals with disabilities and those identifying as LGBTQ+, undocumented students, and women) in American higher education.

Farro, Antimo Luigi / Maddanu, Simone, Restless Cities on the Edge: Collective Actions, Immigration and Populism. (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship) 250 pp. 2022:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-929>
ISBN 978-3-030-91322-9 hard ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews?often occurring during times of protest or even violent action?this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of the protagonists involved, proposing interpretations to each reality described, but also making cross-connections with politics and migration when pertinent. It offers a new understanding of urban collective actions cognizant of the 'common goods', but also of the emergence of new right-wing populism.

Fraser, Benjamin, Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain. 246 pp. 2022:2 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-930>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8749-6 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Hammami, Feras / Jewesbury, Daniel / Valli, Chiara (eds.), Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City. (Explorations in Heritage Studies 5) 232 pp. 2022:7 (Berghahn, US) <672-933>
ISBN 978-1-80073-572-9 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed, or privileged due to urban restructuring? In what ways are the interpretations and performances of 'the past' linked to urban gentrification, marginalization, displacement, and social responses? Authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials, and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge and experiences, memories, authors challenge the 'devaluation' of their neighborhoods in official heritage and development narratives.

Iossifova, Deljana / Gasparatos, Alexandros et al. (eds.), Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 200 pp. 2022:4 (Springer, GW) <672-934>
ISBN 978-981-16-8351-0 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South. It suggests that infrastructuring is essential to urbanisation and that it is entangled with socio-spatio-ecological transformations that often have negative outcomes over time. Furthermore, it argues that infrastructuring requires an ethical positioning in research and practice in order to enhance infrastructural sustainability in the face of intersecting environmental, social and economic crises. "Urban Infrastructuring" is developed in three parts. First, it identifies infrastructural entanglements across various urban and urbanising settings in the Global South. Second, it highlights some of the damaging processes and outcomes of urban infrastructuring and argues that the absence, presence and transformation of infrastructure in the Global South (re-)produces socioecological injustice in the short- and long term. Third, the book argues for a shift of infrastructuring agendas towards more just and sustainable interventions. It suggests that an ethico-politics of care should be embedded in systems approaches to infrastructuring in both research and practice. The edited volume contains contributions from authors with backgrounds in a variety of academic disciplines from the natural and social sciences, engineering and the humanities. It provides valuable insights for anyone concerned with the study, design, planning, implementation and maintenance of urban infrastructures to enhance human well-being and sustainability. It will be of interest to researchers and urban decision-makers alike.

Kingfisher, Catherine, Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities. (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations 8) 254 pp. 2021:10 (Berghahn, US) <672-935>
ISBN 978-1-80073-239-1 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Low, Setha, Why Public Space Matters. 272 pp. 2022:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <672-936>
ISBN 978-0-19-754373-3 hard ¥7,543.- (税込) US$ 34.99 *

Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity, health, urban resilience, and environmental sustainability. Yet more than ever, public spaces across the world are threatened by urban development, privatization and neglect. Public spaces -- where people from all walks of life play, work, meet, talk, read, think, debate, and protest -- are vital to a healthy civic life. And, as the eminent scholar of public space Setha Low argues in Why Public Space Matters, even fleeting moments of visibility and encounter in these spaces tend to foster a broader worldview and our willingness to accept difference. Such experiences also enhance flexible thinking, problem solving, creativity, and inclusiveness. There are many such spaces, but they all enhance social life. Sidewalks and plazas offer business opportunities for small-scale entrepreneurs who cannot afford store space. Public parks have long provided major cultural attractions, from plays to concerts, at little or no cost to the public. Central squares have a storied tradition as arenas for demonstrations and political protests. Parks and waterways create sustainable greenways, and during disasters, all manner of public spaces become centers for food delivery and shelter. To illustrate their value, Low draws from decades of research in public spaces across the Americas, from New York to Costa Rica. Yet we are losing public spaces to accelerated urban development and the belief that public spaces are expendable. Just as important is the broad-scale and ongoing privatization of public space by corporate actors. Low explores why public spaces matter today, how they are at risk, and what we can do about protecting these essential places that support our everyday lives. Finally, she shows how we can work to promote public space protection and expansion at both the grassroots and global levels. Throughout, she focuses on real public spaces and the people who use them in cities and regions across the Americas, from New Jersey to Costa Rica. A powerful, defining statement on a foundational contributor to healthy civic life, Low's book not only details what we are at risk of losing, but shows us how we can not only stop the losses, but work to expand the number of spaces available to the public.

Mays, Kyle T., City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit. (Politics and Culture in Modern America) 264 pp. 2022:5 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <672-938>
ISBN 978-0-8122-5393-1 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. The underlying causes were decades of deindustrialization, white flight, and financial mismanagement. More recently it has been heralded a comeback city as wealthy white residents resettle there. Yet, as Kyle T. Mays argues, we cannot understand the current state of Detroit without also understanding the longer history of Native American and African American dispossession that has defined the city since its founding. How has dispossession impacted the development of modern U.S. cities? And how does comparing the historical experiences of Native Americans and African Americans in an urban context help us comprehend histories of race, sovereignty, and colonialism? Using archives, oral and family histories, and community documents, City of Dispossessions is a cultural, intellectual, and social history that argues that physical and symbolic forms of dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans, and their reactions to dispossession, have been central to Detroit's modern development. The book begins with the first settlement by the Frenchman Cadillac in 1701 and chronicles how the logic of dispossession has continued into the present, through a wide range of forms that include memorialization of the "disappearing Indian," the physical dispossession of African Americans through urban renewal, and gentrification. Mays also chronicles the wide-ranging forms of expression through which Black and Indigenous Detroiters have contested dispossession, such as the Red and Black Power movements and culturally relevant education. Through lively, accessible prose as well as historical and contemporary examples, City of Dispossessions will be of interest to readers of urban studies, Indigenous Studies, and critical ethnic studies.

Oke, Ayodeji Emmanuel / Stephen, Seyi Segun et al., Smart Cities : A Panacea for Sustainable Development. 156 pp. 2022:4 (Emerald, UK) <672-939>
ISBN 978-1-80382-456-7 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Professionals in the construction industry must respond quickly to meet the increasing pressures of heightened urban migration, and provide sustainable alternatives to resource scarcity in established cities - Smart Cities offers solutions to the demands of rising urban populations. The smartness of a city stems from the relationship between construction stakeholders and the citizens, with the shared goal to improve all standards and support social, physical, and economic growth. Surplus and reusable are key terminologies when striving towards sustainable development. Smart Cities aims to provide necessary information on the adoption of smart cities concepts towards achieving sustainable development, with a view to ensuring socially cohesive and resilient urban districts for both the current and future generations.

Ross, Daniel, The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street. 224 pp. 2022:4 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <672-941>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6700-9 hard ¥19,393.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *
ISBN 978-0-7748-6701-6 paper ¥7,750.- (税込) US$ 35.95 *

From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. The Heart of Toronto follows one example of efforts to address the problems and possibilities of city centres: downtown Yonge Street. Attempts to keep pace with, or even lead, urban change included the street's conversion into a car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex industry, and the construction of North America's largest urban shopping mall. Linking these projects to postwar decentralization, economic restructuring, and cultural transformation, Daniel Ross reveals the politics and power dynamics involved in reinventing the heart of Toronto.

Simone, AbdouMaliq, The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture. (Theory in Forms) 176 pp. 2022:6 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-942>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1550-5 hard ¥20,471.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1813-1 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds-those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.

Wiryomartono, Bagoes, Architectural Humanities in Progress: Divulging Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics of the Built Environment and Habitation. (Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress 21) 280 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-944>
ISBN 978-3-030-92279-5 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This monograph brings three branches of philosophy together: epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. It assesses the built environment as a case study from a phenomenological perspective. Under the notion of phenomenology, this study understands the built environment as the hermeneutical phenomenon of being in the life-world that is experienced by people within the socio-cultural and historical context of habitation. Hermeneutically, the built environment as a phenomenon is contextually interwoven with other phenomena within the socio-cultural, historical, and environmental network. Phenomenologically speaking, the task of the study is to excavate, listen to, unfold, divulge, and reconstruct the socio-culturally, environmentally, and historically constructed relationship between people and their built environment that build, develop, and elaborate the system of knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics. By and large, its nature and findingsare theoretical and interdisciplinary, so it will be of interest not only for philosophers, but also to scholars studying urban development and anthropology.

Tomas, Antonio, In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. (Theory in Forms) 296 pp. 2022:7 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-849>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1552-9 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1815-5 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

With In the Skin of the City, Antonio Tomas traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomas shows how the city's physical and social boundaries-its skin-constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda's "asphalt frontier"-the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it-and the ways squatters are central to Luanda's historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating Luanda's divisions and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. By illustrating how Luanda emerges out of the continual redefinition of its skin, Tomas offers new ways to understand the logic of urbanization in cities across the global South.

Baisotti, Pablo (ed.), New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century. 384 pp. 2022:4 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <672-708>
ISBN 978-0-472-07523-2 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05523-4 paper ¥9,691.- (税込) US$ 44.95 *

Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the XXIst Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered "secondary" in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced by these metropolises (e.g., organized crime, drug trafficking, slums, economic inequalities). The book illustrates the growth of cities according to these problems arising from the modernity of the new century, comparing Latin American and Asian cities.This book analyzes the complex relationships within cities through an interdisciplinary approach, complementing other research and challenging orthodox views on global cities. At the same time, the book provides new theoretical and methodological tools to understand the progress of "Third World" cities and the way of understanding "globality" in the 21st century by confronting the traditional views with which global cities were appreciated since the 1980s. Pablo Baisotti brings together researchers from various fields who provide new interpretative keys to certain cities in Latin America and Asia.

Bhattacharjya, Manjima, Intimate City. 240 pp. 2022:3 (Zubaan Books, II) <672-794>
ISBN 978-93-90514-31-1 paper ¥4,312.- (税込) US$ 20.00 *

Pattaroni, Luca / Bhide, Amita / Lutringer, C. (eds.), Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034. (Exploring Urban Change in South Asia) 198 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-803>
ISBN 978-981-16-8670-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider context of global urbanization, and broadens readers' understanding of urban planning, chiefly focusing on the interplay between grassroots movements, experts' involvement, and sociotechnical questions. As the respective chapters of the book show, the various controversies surrounding the Mumbai Development Plan (MDP) have called into question the social and political effects of reshaping the city, the exclusion, and inequalities it has produced, but also the role it confers on the state and the market, and its impacts on the environment. After carefully describing these controversies, the book tackles the fundamental democratic question of who gets to define the future of a city. Given its scope, the book is of interest to researchers, students, and teachers of city planning, urban development, and urban studies, as well as policymakers.

Fu, Albert S., Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism. (Nature, Society, and Culture) 188 pp. 2022:3 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-623>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2031-9 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2030-2 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

Over half the world's population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies -such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities.

Gillette, Howard, Jr., The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era. (The City in the Twenty-First Century) 344 pp. 2022:3 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <672-351>
ISBN 978-0-8122-5371-9 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to Oakland and elsewhere commentators saw cities rising again. Yet revitalization generated a second urban crisis marked by growing inequality and civil unrest reminiscent of the upheavals associated with the first urban crisis in the mid-twentieth century. The urban poor and residents of color have remained very much at a disadvantage in the face of racially biased capital investments, narrowing options for affordable housing, and mass incarceration. In profiling nine cities grappling with challenges of the twenty-first century, author Howard Gillette, Jr. evaluates the uneven efforts to secure racial and class equity as city fortunes have risen. Charting the tension between the practice of corporate subsidy and efforts to assure social justice, The Paradox of Urban Revitalization assesses the course of urban politics and policy over the past half century, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, and details prospects for achieving greater equity in the years ahead.

Lynn, Theo / Rosati, Pierangelo / Conway, Edel et al., Digital Towns: Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies. 213 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-392>
ISBN 978-3-030-91246-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-030-91249-9 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources, competition from urban and global markets, and population trends, rural communities present lesser access and use of digital technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than their urban counterparts. Consequently, they experience less beneficial outcomes from increased digitalisation than urban areas. This book defines what a digital town is and explores digitalisation from the perspective of the four basic economic sectors in towns - individuals and households, businesses, the public sector, and civil society - and three types of enabling infrastructure - digital connectivity, education, and governance. Particular attention is paid to how digitalisation efforts are measured by intergovernmental and international organisations for each sector and enabling infrastructure. The book concludes with a Digital Town Readiness Framework that offers local communities, policymakers, and scholars an initial set of indicators upon which to develop digital town initiatives, and measure progress. For those ready to embrace the opportunity, this book is a pathfinder on the road to a more equitable and impactful digital society and digital economy.