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

Chirisa, Innocent / Matamanda, Abraham R. (eds.), Urban Infrastructure in Zimbabwe: Departures, Divergences and Convergences. (The Urban Book Series) 420 pp. 2024:2 (Springer, GW) <714-701>
ISBN 978-3-031-45567-4 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book provides insights into urban infrastructure debates and discourses in Zimbabwe. Through an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach, the book explores the theoretical, conceptual and lived experiences in urban infrastructure. The book focuses on case studies relating to urban transport, public housing, water and sanitation and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) among other substantive issues relating to urban infrastructure and services.

Armiero, Marco / Rosa, Salvatore Paolo / Turhan, E. (eds.), Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation. (Protest and Social Movements) 276 pp. 2023:11 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <714-724>
ISBN 978-94-6372-666-5 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations. While the effects of the climate crisis are becoming more extreme and tangible across the globe with every passing day, urban social movements and their radical strategies to resist climate injustice often remain concealed from sight. Contributors to this volume ask how would it be to look at the politics of urban loss-and-damage not from the highly securitized zones of climate summits, but from favelas in Rio de Janeiro, flood-prone communities in Sao Paulo, urban gardens in Naples, or neighborhoods resisting climate gentrification in New York City? This book explores diverse worlds and praxis of urban social movements resisting the rising tides of climate crisis and social injustice.

Gall, Tjark / Vallet, Flore / Reyes Madrigal, L. M. et al., Sustainable Urban Mobility Futures. (Sustainable Urban Futures) 187 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-732>
ISBN 978-3-031-45794-4 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

?This book provides a unique perspective on urban mobility focusing on past challenges and future trends. The book enables discussions of pathways towards sustainable and people-centred urban mobility building on existing concepts and introducing novel methods and consideration of future research. In particular, the book provides an overview of trends, design methods, and projects combining foresight and agent-based modelling to better integrate active mobility in Mobility-as-a-Service, assess impacts of automated vehicles in Paris, and compare multiple solutions in Cairo. The book provides a range of multidisciplinary concepts and methods that will be invaluable to both researchers in the field and students taking relevant courses.

Burgum, Samuel, Squatting London: The Politics of Property. 240 pp. 2024:7 (Pluto Pr., UK) <714-758>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4143-9 paper ¥7,119.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

Squatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised, stigmatised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the glittering facade of shiny new buildings, London is a network of vacant offices, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city's poorest and most determined citizens, exiled and increasingly pushed to the margins. This book is an account of the real lives of the city's squatters: their ambitions and struggles. Squatting is a challenge to the logic of property which underpins the city. By finding refuge, staying put, creating spaces and participating in counter-cultures, squats are political acts. They sit in direct opposition to the speculation, gentrification and regeneration that controls London today. From wasted office blocks transformed into a life-saving homeless shelter, to temporary art exhibitions and raves; from an empty doctor's surgery, to a library closed by cuts; from mutual aid networks set up during the pandemic, to restaurants, shops, offices and pubs - Squatting London is an alternative, underground and rebellious ethnographic account of a city you thought you already knew.

Dobson, Mark / Parker, Gavin, Slow Planning?: Timescapes, Power and Democracy. 176 pp. 2024:4 (Policy Pr., UK) <714-761>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6770-3 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practitioners, national and local politicians and policy makers involved in planning, academics and students studying planning and related disciplines. It presents time as a pervasive form of power that is used to shape democratic practices, and questions 'project speed': where time to think, deliberate and plan has been squeezed. The authors demonstrate the many benefits of slow planning for the key participants, multiple interests and planning system overall.

Gilmore, Abigail, Culture, Participation and Policy in the Municipal Public Park. (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation) 210 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-764>
ISBN 978-3-031-44276-6 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99 *

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life. Adopting a critical cultural policy lens, it identifies the park as a mundane but extraordinarily treasured place for the production and exchange of cultural values, regulation, resistance, and the practising of citizenship. Drawing on extensive mixed-methods research on everyday participation in diverse local cultural ecosystems in England and Scotland, the book examines the social lives of parks and their users, and the important public values that are generated through their common stewardship and usership. It presents case studies of parks and co-located museums as cultural public spheres, which promote both commoning and commodification. These are contextualized by histories of municipal parkmaking from the nineteenth century to the present and related to the making of local government and toother civic and cultural institutions.The book highlights contemporary issues of austerity, marketisation and de-municipalisation within local government in the context of urban development. It positions the public park as fundamental to democratic cultural governance and makes the case for the primacy of public trust, ownership, and park equity in safeguarding the right to the city.

Hern, Matt, Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Sub-urbs. 192 pp. 2024:3 (Verso, UK) <714-765>
ISBN 978-1-78873-817-0 hard ¥4,840.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99 *

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself. Today, most of the Western world lives on the city outskirts. Yet these neighborhoods that once offered security and respite from the perceived dangers of the city center have been radically transformed in the last few decades to poor, working-class and racialized communities. Outside the Outside maps these changes and argues for a revival of the social life of the city as a whole.Hern shows how language that relegates parts of the urban to the "outside" and designates other parts as the "center" echoes colonial forms of domination. This should come as no surprise in an era when communities are forced onto the periphery and beyond by gentrification.With on-the-ground reportage in, among other places, Vancouver, Portland, London, Ferguson and Rabat, Hern demonstrates how we need to challenge our misconceptions and see the "sub-urbs" as vibrant places of resistance and regeneration and to celebrate the movement, circulation and difference to be found there.

Jones, David S., Planning for Urban Country: Taking First Nations Values into Future Urban Designs. 309 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-766>
ISBN 978-981-9971-91-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

Planning for Urban Country addresses a major gap in knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into Australia's built environment contexts. How do you 'heal' Country if it has been devastated by concrete and bitumen, excavations and bulldozing, weeds and introduced plants and animals, and surface, aerial and underground contaminants? How then do Aboriginal values and Country Plan aspirations address urban environments? In this book, David S. Jones explores the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations in Djilang / Greater Geelong since 2020. Included are short-interlinked essays about the political and cultural context, profiles of key exemplar architectural, landscape and corridor projects, a deep explanation of the legislative, policy and statutory precedents, opportunities and environment that has enabled these opportunities, and the how Wadawurrung past-present-future values have been scaffolded into these changes.

Klekotko, Marta, Scenes and Communities in the City. 142 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-767>
ISBN 978-3-031-43463-1 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

?This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept of neighbourhood as well as personal and imagined communities, and thus proposes to comprehend urban community as social practice embedded in urban space. The book applies the Theory of Social Practice and the Theory of Scenes and develops the concept of socio-cultural opportunity structures in order to explain how cultural practices of individuals and symbolic dimensions of territory interact, leading to (re)production of various forms of urban community. It is assumed that culture in general and symbolic meanings of territory in particular, play a crucial role in the process of (re)production of urban communities, that this process takes place in collective cultural consciousness and is mediated by territorially embedded cultural practices of individuals. The book overcomes theoretical gaps in classical community studies and develops a new perspective on urban communal processes based on the analysis of social practices in urban cultural scenes.

Lee, Min Kyung, The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris. 208 pp. 2024:3 (Yale U. Pr., US) <714-768>
ISBN 978-0-300-26764-8 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space Maps are rarely given the same attention as other print media or art forms in urban history. Author Min Kyung Lee shows their rich potential in this lavishly illustrated study, which brings together maps and other archival materials along with drawings and paintings. She works across disciplines to examine mapping practices in the development of nineteenth-century Paris and the transformative role that urban mapping had on the city's modernization. Lee investigates Paris's formation as a modern city, ultimately framing the practice of cartography as a catalyst for the emergence of new spatial and compositional theories. Beginning with an examination of the emblematic urban plan that Napoleon III gave to the prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugene Haussmann, in 1853, Lee explores the significance of the map itself; the means of its production through surveying; the methods of its use and reception by architects, engineers, and administrators; and its place in the visual culture of Paris's modernization. At the heart of this exploration is a focus on orthography in architecture and the new quality of exactitude in modern mapping practices. The precise grid structure of orthographic maps and plans evinced a sense of objectivity, yet it was not without political context and social consequences, as Lee demonstrates throughout.

Lombard, Melanie / Horn, Philipp, Urban Informality: An Introduction. 224 pp. 2024:5 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <714-769>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1916-6 hard ¥24,498.- (税込) GB￡ 85.99 *
ISBN 978-1-5292-1917-3 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of 'urban informality', taking an international perspective across the global North and South. It explores theoretical understandings of the term, and looks at how it affects ways of living, such as land use, housing and basic services, working lives and politics. Using a broad range of material to bring the topic to life, including non-conventional sources - such as fiction, poetry, photography, interviews and other media - the book helps students, practitioners and scholars develop learning and research on this topic. The book also includes interjections from diverse voices of practitioners, community activists and regional experts.

Omena, Erick, The Games of Land Dispossession: Urban Governance and Sports Mega-Events. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 218 pp. 2023:12 (Springer, GW) <714-770>
ISBN 978-981-9975-35-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a comparative study of state strategies in relation to urban redevelopment projects associated with sports mega-events in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom. It examines urban governance strategies employed to dispossess working-class communities of their land and counteract the subsequent emergence of discontent in various national contexts, offering an intricate analysis of the mechanisms of class dominance operating across diverse regions of the globe. This is based on the application of Gramscian theory concerning the capitalist state and its fluid interplay between coercion and consent. Juxtaposing historical trajectories in the execution of redevelopment initiatives linked to large-scale sporting events, the book offers an in-depth examination of the state-civil society relations shaping the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Parks, alongside the regeneration initiatives concerning the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro and the Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg - respectively earmarked for the 2014 and 2010 FIFA World Cups. Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines and an explicitly Gramscian analytical framework, this book will appeal to students and scholars in urban planning, sport sociology, development studies, and human geography.

Ortar, Nathalie / Rerat, Patrick (eds.), Cycling Through the Pandemic: Tactical Urbanism and the Implementation of Pop-Up Bike Lanes in the Time of COVID-19. (The Urban Book Series) 250 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <714-771>
ISBN 978-3-031-45307-6 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-45310-6 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South America. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through policies analysis, mapping, and innovative qualitative analysis bridging video and interviews, how those new infrastructures and policies can be a trigger for change in a context of mobility transition.This book provides an important element on the way local authorities can act in a quicker and more agile way. While some decisions are specific to the context of the beginning of the pandemic, the analysis offers lessons on the way to implement the transition toward a low-carbon mobility, on the importance of processes based on trials and errors, on the political stakes of reallocating road space.

Rolfes, Manfred / Wilhelm, Jan Lorenz, System-Theoretical Urban Development: The Potsdam Lodestar Approach. 263 pp. 2024:1 (Springer, GW) <714-772>
ISBN 978-3-658-42249-3 paper ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99

In their book, the authors introduce the topic of urban development from a systems (theoretical) perspective and provide explanatory approaches, tips and methodological instructions for dealing with urban complexity. Knowing full well that this sometimes amounts to squaring the circle, the authors draw on applied systemic approaches and systematically couple these with epistemological currents that can be assigned to Luhmann's systems theory. The social understanding of this theory of social systems represents a very good starting point for understanding urban development and urban complexity. From this perspective, urban development can be seen as a process in which organisations and individuals with their own expectations and perspectives are involved, in which contradictions and conflicts seem inevitable and the future cannot be clearly predicted. Decisions in cities and municipalities are therefore always associated with risks, irritations and unexpected consequences. With the Potsdam lodestar approach, Rolfes and Wilhelm present a multidimensional approach to managing urban development processes. The approach distinguishes five process dimensions, which are presented chapter by chapter and linked with recommendations. The individual chapters are structured along guiding questions and feature appealing visualizations and numerous bonus materials.

Scheffer, Joerg, Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age. (Geographies of Media) 166 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-773>
ISBN 978-3-658-42792-4 hard ¥7,058.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access book critically examines discussions on digitalisation and individual opportunities for socio-economic advancement. Contrary to the prevailing narratives of "digital empowerment" and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially disadvantaged groups are faced with reproducing mechanisms as part of a new data economy. Surprisingly, the more intensively digital services are used, the more this happens.Building on Loew?s sociology of space and Bourdieu?s concept of habitus, this book shows how practices of social exclusion are transferred to the digital present in an innovative way. The image of "mirrored" spaces describes a new mechanism that explains social exclusion in the age of digitalisation. This book is an essential resource for researchers and students interestedin socio-economic inequalities, processes of digitalisation, and digital geographies.

空間、都市政治、日常生活－H.ルフェーブルと米国の都市
Schwarze, Tilman, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City. 287 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-774>
ISBN 978-3-031-46037-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre's work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on ethnographic research on Chicago's South Side, Tilman Schwarze explores the current situation of urbanisation and urban life in the U.S. city through a critical reading and application of Lefebvre's writings on space, everyday life, the urban, the state, and difference. Focusing on territorial stigmatisation, public housing transformation, and urban redevelopment, this book makes an important contribution to critical urban scholarship, foregrounding the relevance and applicability of Henri Lefebvre's work for geographical and sociological research on urban politics and everyday life.

Tang Kai, Natasha / Swatuk, Larry, Prioritizing the Environment in Urban Sustainability Planning: Policies and Practices of Canadian Cities. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 143 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-775>
ISBN 978-3-031-46521-5 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book examines the extent to which the environment is addressed in the sustainability plans of Canadian cities. It assesses if and to what extent select leading environmental priorities are addressed in the sustainability plans of sixteen Canadian cities, followed by analysis of efforts towards each priority. It scores and ranks cities against each environmental priority and highlights what makes some cities lead and others lag in environmental sustainability.The book unravels the complexity, similarities, and differences in environmental sustainability planning across major cities in Canada. The project reflects what's working, who's leading, and which environmental priorities support the sustainable city model. Climate change has exacerbated the impacts of flood, droughts, wildfire and storms, urban centers must account for sustainability to mitigate and adapt to a changing and uncertain landscape. It begins with robust and integrative sustainability plans that prioritize the environment. This book will make a timely contribution to the on-going debate regarding the ways and means to become a sustainable city. It reflects the on-going sustainable development discourse and deliberations to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. It cut across many SDGs in particular SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities. What makes this study unique is its special attention to environmental priorities within urban sustainability planning. This subject is topical and would appeal to both scholars and practitioners at local, regional, national, and global scales.

一帯一路の都市－地政学、都市化、中国の新しい国際秩序の探求
Curtis, Simon / Klaus, Ian, The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order. 280 pp. 2024:5 (Yale U. Pr., US) <714-554>
ISBN 978-0-300-26690-0 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics Over the past decade China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a strategy aimed at nothing less than the transformation of international order. The Belt and Road Initiative, which seeks to revitalize and reconnect the ancient Silk Roads that linked much of the world before the rise of the West, is an attempt to place China at the center of this new international order, one shaped by Chinese power, norms, and values. It seeks to do so, in part, by shaping our shared urban future. Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus explore how China's specific investments in urban development-cities, roads, railways, ports, digital and energy connectivity-are directly linked to its foreign policy goals. Curtis and Klaus examine the implications of these developments as they evolve across the vast Afro-Eurasian region. The distinctive model of international order and urban life emerging with the rise of Chinese power and influence offers a potential rival to the one that has accompanied the rise and zenith of Western power, marking a new age of infrastructural geopolitics and Great Power competition.

中国と日本における都市部の持続可能な傾向の理解と評価
Zou, Xiaolong, Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia: Understanding and Evaluating Urban Sustainable Trends in China and Japan. (Urban Sustainability) 131 pp. 2023:12 (Springer, GW) <714-618>
ISBN 978-981-9970-14-8 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development. Urban sustainability is the pillar domain for achieving overall sustainability. East Asia has the world most populous countries and cities; therefore, it is of great importance to understand, analyze, and assess the sustainable urban development trends and paradigms in an East Asia setting so as to better guide the future development of sustainable cities in the region. The outcomes of this book are policy-relevant consultations to key stakeholders from various walks of sustainability studies.

Yu, Hai / Zou, Huahua, Shanghai Narrative: A Socio-spatial Perspective. 191 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <714-644>
ISBN 978-981-9932-60-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book focuses on urban development in Shanghai over the past four decades, which is composed of two major development processes-the development of new spaces and the renewal of old ones. Seeking to bring the concept of space back into social analysis, the book explores changes affecting communities, interpersonal interactions, lifestyles and social mindsets in Shanghai from a spatial perspective. What's more, all these social themes are presented using a narrative of spatial representation and spatialization. The book combines both academic and documentary-style contributions. It also provides cutting-edge research on the most representative case in Shanghai. As the book demonstrates, the story of social spaces in Shanghai is more than a combination of social analysis and spatial analysis but also involves historical analysis and contemporary narrative.

帝国と現代のタイの間のチェンマイ
Easum, Taylor, Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand: A City in the Colonial Margins. (Asian Cities) 288 pp. 2023:12 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <714-653>
ISBN 978-94-6372-646-7 hard ¥32,193.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the formation of the modern Thai state that highlights the overlap between European, American, and Siamese interests. Through a detailed analysis of Chiang Mai's urban space, the power dynamics that shaped the city come into focus as an urban-scale manifestation of colonial forces-albeit an incomplete one that allowed sacred space to become a source of conflict that was only resolved in the years before WWII. Today, as the city confronts the challenge of overdevelopment, the legacy of the colonial era, and the opportunity of heritage preservation, this deep, multi-layered history of the power of (and over) urban space is vital.

Allam, Zaheer / Cheshmehzangi, Ali / Jones, David S., Climate and Social Justice: The Political Economy of Urban Resilience and Mercantilism. (Urban Sustainability) 114 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <714-185>
ISBN 978-981-9966-23-3 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book offers a fresh perspective on the historical, economic, and cultural foundations of capitalism, cities, and climate change. By exploring the intersection of urbanization, consumerism, and colonialism, the book sheds new light on the origins and development of the economic system that has shaped our world today. What sets this book apart is its unique approach, which challenges conventional wisdom and offers new insights into the complex relationships between culture, politics, and economics. The book is intended for readers interested in the history and evolution of capitalism and its impact on society, as well as those interested in climate change and urbanization. The content level is accessible for general readers, yet sophisticated enough to appeal to scholars and researchers. The two most important features of the book are its fresh perspective on the history of mercantilism and its examination of the economic landscape of cities and climate change. By reading this book, readers gain a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between urbanization, colonialism, and economic policies, and their impact on contemporary society.