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

K.E.カルダー著　グローバルな政治都市－国際情勢における影響のアクターと舞台
Calder, Kent E., Global Political Cities: Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs. 286 pp. 2021:1 (Brookings Institution Pr., US) <680-888>
ISBN 978-0-8157-3907-4 paper ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Heinelt, Hubert / Egner, Bjoern / Sack, Detlef, Kommunalpolitik und Stadtgesellschaft in Deutschland: Institutionalisierte Staat-Gesellschaft-Beziehungen im Vergleich. (Lokale Politik / Local Politics 6) 165 S. 2022:2 (Nomos, GW) <680-842>
ISBN 978-3-8487-8745-6 paper ¥9,180.- (税込) EUR 39.00 *

Der Band stuetzt sich auf eine Online-Befragung unter Mitgliedern von Verwaltungsausschuessen lokaler Arbeitsagenturen, Beiraeten lokaler Jobzentren, Jugendhilfeausschuessen, Auslaenderbeiraeten sowie Traegerorganen lokaler Wirtschaftsfoerderungsgesellschaften und ?agenturen in Deutschland. Im Mittelpunkt der Auswertung stehen die Einschaetzungen der Mitglieder zur internen Organisation der Gremien, ihrer Legitimitaet, der ihnen zugeordneten Funktionen sowie ihres Einflusses auf die lokale Politik. Zudem bietet die Auswertung einen Ueberblick ueber die soziostrukturelle Zusammensetzung der Gremien.

三井康壽著　災害管理と都市計画－阪神淡路大震災の教訓
Mitsui, Yasuhisa, Disaster Management and City Planning: Lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives 58) 382 pp. 2022:6 (Springer, GW) <680-851>
ISBN 978-981-19-1807-0 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan. It is a compilation of knowledge and know-how obtained through the author's work in the national government for one and half years in the Earthquake Reconstruction Headquarters, right after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on 17 January 1995. The author has carefully examined the various ad hoc measures taken just after the earthquake, which were criticized because they did not work as well as expected. Additionally, he has examined the later revisions in disaster and risk management systems made at the levels of local and national governments through experience in the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, to which the author had long been committed. The author argues that the rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans for disaster countermeasures implemented once a disaster has occurred and the cityplanning established in ordinary times should be extremely tightly connected with each other. City planning that subsumes rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans against what ought to have happened would critically improve the capability of crisis management and, consequently, protect life and property once a disaster has occurred. Such city planning eventually creates disaster-resistant cities. This book assumes readers to be graduate students who study city planning. It is also beneficial for practitioners and policy makers who are in charge of the construction of disaster-resistant cities at the national and local levels of governments, especially in disaster-prone countries.

Adler, Sy, Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary: The Struggle to Transcend Trend City. 272 pp. 2022:8 (Oregon State U. Pr., US) <680-1075>
ISBN 978-0-87071-211-1 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

In this companion volume to his 2012 book Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land-Use Revolution, Sy Adler offers readers a deep analysis of Portland's Urban Growth Boundary. As part of Oregon's land-use system, urban areas are required to define a UGB, a line containing urban sprawl and separating it from agricultural land and open space. In Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary, Adler argues that acknowledging the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning. Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary primarily covers the 1970s, the period during which the initial boundary was planned at the regional level and acknowledged as compliant with Oregon's statewide Urbanization goal. Adler's central argument is that while state and regional planning institutions were established in response to concerns about sprawl, planners working for those institutions had to confront the reality that various plans developed and implemented by city and county governments around the Portland metro would instead allow the sprawling to continue. Regional planners labeled these as "Trend City" plans, and sought to transcend and transform them during the 1970s and thereafter. Adler discusses the dynamics of these partially successful efforts and the conflicts that characterized the development of the UGB during the 1970s-between different levels of government, and between public, private, and civic sector advocates. When the regional UGB is periodically reviewed, these conflicts continue, as debates about values and technical issues related to forecasting future amounts of population, economic activity, and the availability of land for urban development over a twenty-year period roil the boundary planning process.

スマートシティ再考
Allam, Zaheer / Raisah Takun, Yusra, Rethinking Smart Cities. (Rethinking Urban and Regional Studies) 208 pp. 2022:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <680-1076>
ISBN 978-1-80392-679-7 hard ¥23,646.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

This innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics.Chapters highlight how existing digital infrastructures can be coupled with emerging ones, so that they can provide increased efficiency and performance, with an ultimate objective of rendering safer, more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, aligning with the needs of the SDGs. The book also covers emerging technologies and concepts, such as 6G and the '15-minute city', underlining how these can develop within smart city frameworks.This is an invigorating look into the concept of the smart city and how it can be improved and rethought, making it useful for urban studies and human geography academics and researchers. It also offers helpful insights for policy makers and planners on how to increase the quality of life in modern cities.

Coors, Volker / Pietruschka, Dirk / Zeitler, Berndt (eds.), iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable City: Research Findings of University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart. 378 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <680-1078>
ISBN 978-3-030-92095-1 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to become a LIScity. The research has been pursued with industry partners and NGOs from 2017 to 2020. A LIScity is increasingly digitally networked, uses resources efficiently, and implements intelligent mobility concepts. It guarantees the supply of its grid-bound infrastructure with a high proportion of renewable energy. Intelligent cities are increasingly human-centered, integrative, and flexible, thus placing the well-being of the citizens at the center of developments to increase the quality of life. The articles in this book cover research aimed to meet these criteria. The book covers research in the fields of energy (i.e. algorithms for heating and energy storage systems, simulation programs for thermal local heating supply, runtime optimization of combined heat and power (CHP), natural ventilation), mobility (i.e. charging distribution and deep learning, innovative emission-friendly mobility, routing apps, zero-emission urban logistics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence for individual route planning, mobility behavior), information platforms (i.e. 3DCity models in city planning: sunny places visualization, augmented reality for windy cities, internet of things (IoT) monitoring to visualize device performance, storing and visualizing dynamic energy data of smart cities), and buildings and city planning (i.e. sound insulation of sustainable facades and balconies, multi-camera mobile systems for inspection of tunnels, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) as active facade elements, common space, the building envelopes potential in smart sustainable cities).

Fernandez-Jones, Delia, Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest) 304 pp. 2023:2 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <680-1080>
ISBN 978-0-252-04484-7 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08694-6 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Large numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish-speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernandez-Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemaking practices that these Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans used to create a new home for themselves. Faced with entrenched white racism and hostility, Latinos of different backgrounds formed powerful relationships to better secure material needs like houses and jobs and to recreate community cultural practices. Their pan-Latino solidarity crossed ethnic and racial boundaries and shaped activist efforts that emphasized working within the system to advocate for social change. In time, this interethnic Latino alliance exploited cracks in both overt and structural racism and attracted white and Black partners to fight for equality in social welfare programs, policing, and education. Groundbreaking and revelatory, Making the MexiRican City details how disparate Latino communities came together to respond to social, racial, and economic challenges.

Landis, John (ed.), Megaprojects for Megacities: A Comparative Casebook. 528 pp. 2022:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <680-1082>
ISBN 978-1-80392-062-7 hard ¥45,868.- (税込) GB￡ 161.00 *

Megaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America, Asia and Europe. It goes beyond the previous megaproject literature to look at how and why each project was conceived, planned, engineered, financed, and delivered, and how particular planning and delivery practices shaped successful and unsuccessful outcomes.With individual chapters on high-speed rail, urban metro systems, bus rapid transit, roadway tunnels and bridges, new and improved airports, waterfront redevelopment projects, new towns, urban parks and renewable energy projects, this book is unparalleled in its coverage, depth and takeaways for practice. It incorporates current examples from across the world, including North America, Asia, the UK, and Europe.This collection of case studies is presented in an approachable way that will prove valuable to academics, researchers and students as well as practicing professionals, financiers and senior government officials interested in infrastructure planning, financing, project management and delivery.

Maloutas, Thomas / Karadimitriou, Nikos, Vertical Cities: Micro-segregation, Social Mix and Urban Housing Markets. 360 pp. 2022:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <680-1083>
ISBN 978-1-80088-638-4 hard ¥34,188.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

Exploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these effects. Taking a deep dive into micro-segregation in the socially mixed and dense centres of compact cities, the authors investigate the form and content of social and ethno-racial hierarchies at the micro-scale of different cities around the world and the ways these have evolved over time. Vertical Cities considers the ways the materiality of such hierarchies affects the reproduction of social inequalities in today's large cities. Academics and researchers of urban sociology, housing, urban regeneration, urban studies and urban geography will find the original approach taken to this under-researched topic to be a vital resource. Practitioners and policy makers will find the innovative use of a common theoretical frame to analyse micro-scale social mix in vertical/compact cities informative when dealing with the management of neighbourhoods in inner cities.

Mocca, Elisabetta, Cities in Search of Freedom: European Municipalities Against the Leviathan. 160 pp. 2023:2 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <680-1085>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1632-5 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Over the past decades the nation state lost its political primacy by processes of devolution, Europeanisation and globalisation, which in turn enhanced municipal autonomy. Why do some cities seek to sidestep the state and widen their sphere of action? Bridging political geography, local politics and urban sociology, this book gives a new perspective on the state's weakening authority and the parallel rise of cities as political actors. The author considers the tensions between central states and European cities, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in the social sciences.

縮小する都市ハンドブック
Pallagst, Karina / Bontje, Marco et al. (eds.), Handbook on Shrinking Cities. (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies) 512 pp. 2022:10 (E. Elgar, UK) * paper 2024 <680-1086>
ISBN 978-1-83910-703-0 hard ¥57,834.- (税込) GB￡ 203.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-533899-3 paper ¥13,376.- (税込) GB￡ 46.95 *

Compelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising shrinking cities. It analyses the multidimensional phenomena involved in processes of shrinkage, where cities experience a dramatic decline in their economic and social bases.Offering a timely response to the endurance of decline in cities across the globe, contributions from top scholars showcase a wide range of perspectives on the ongoing challenges of shrinkage. Chapters cover topics of 'governance', 'greening' and 'right-sizing', and 'regrowth', laying the relevant groundwork for the Handbook's proposals for dealing with shrinkage in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. Leading experts in the fields of urban and regional development contribute novel ideas pertinent to the future of shrinking cities, considering factors such as economic prosperity, liveability, social stability, and innovation, ultimately representing a paradigmatic shift from growth-centred planning to the notion of 'shrinking sustainably'.In suggesting strategies to reverse decline and generate newer, more robust development, this prescient Handbook will prove beneficial to scholars of human geography and urban planning. The wide range of case studies will also make this a vital read for planning practitioners.

Reft, Ryan / Phillips de Lucas, Amanda et al., Justice and the Interstates: The Racist Truth about Urban Highways. 244 pp. 2023:1 (Island Pr., US) <680-1087>
ISBN 978-1-64283-261-7 paper ¥6,252.- (税込) US$ 29.00

"Seventy years of a car-only approach-not car-centric, it's car-only-is actually not just non-driver hostile, it's driver hostile. No one benefits." -Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America The car-only approach in transportation planning and engineering has led to the construction of roadways that have torn apart and devalued communities, especially Black and Brown communities. Forging a new path to repair this damage requires a community solutions-based approach to planning, designing, and building our roadways. When Lynn Peterson began working as a transportation engineer, she was taught to evaluate roadway projects based only on metrics related to driver safety, allowable speed for the highest number of cars, project schedule, and budget. Involving the community and collaborating with peers were never part of the discussion. Today, Peterson is a recognized leader in transportation planning and engineering, known for her approach that is rooted in racial equity, guided by a process of community engagement, and includes collaboration with other professionals. In Roadways for People, Lynn Peterson draws from her personal experience and interviews with leaders in the field to showcase new possibilities within transportation engineering and planning. She incorporated a community-solutions based approach in her work at Metro, TriMet, and while running the Washington State Department of Transportation, where she played an instrumental role in the largest transportation bill in that state's history. The community solutions-based approach moves away from the narrow standards of traditional transportation design and focuses instead on a process that involves consistent feedback, learning loops, and meaningful and regular community engagement. This approach seeks to address the transportation needs of the most historically marginalized members of the community. Roadways for People is written to empower professionals and policymakers to create transportation solutions that serve people rather than cars. Examples across the U.S.-from Portland, Oregon to Baltimore, Maryland-show what is possible with a community-centered approach. As traditional highway expansions are put on pause around the country, professionals and policymakers have an opportunity to move forward with a better approach. Peterson shows them how.

Schoneboom, Abigail / Slade, Jason / Tait, M. et al., What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies. 256 pp. 2022:11 (Policy Pr., UK) <680-1089>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6597-6 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments. The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment occupations. This exceptional account of the micro-politics of a knowledge-intensive profession also provides an excellent resource for sociologists of contemporary work. The authors use team ethnography to push the methodological frontiers of planning research and to advance organisational ethnography into new areas.

Vey, Jennifer S. / Storring, Nate, Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World. 300 pp. 2022:7 (Brookings Institution Pr., US) <680-1090>
ISBN 978-0-8157-3957-9 paper ¥7,977.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

Degani, Michael, The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania. 264 pp. 2022:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <680-1019>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1650-2 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1914-5 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices is still supplied by the socialist-era energy company Tanesco, which is characterized by increased fees, aging infrastructure, and a sluggish bureaucracy. While some residents contemplate off-grid solutions, others repair, extend, or tap into the state network with the assistance of freelance electricians or moonlighting utility employees. In The City Electric Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state. Moving from the politics of generation contracts down to the street-level experience of blackouts and disconnection patrols, he reveals the logics of infrastructural modification and their effects on everyday life. As politicians, residents, electricians, and utility inspectors all redistribute flows of payment and power, they reframe the energy grid both as a technical system and as an ongoing experiment in collective interdependence.