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

Loo, Yat Ming / Li, Hua / Xie, Jing / Mangi, Eugenio (eds.), The Art of Remembering: Urban Memories, Architecture and Agencies in Contemporary China. 360 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-774>
ISBN 978-1-03-274530-5 hard ¥44,159.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

Focusing on the non-Western context and case studies, this book explores theories of interdisciplinary architectural thinking and the construction of urban memory in Chinese cities, with an emphasis on contemporary architecture and the diversity of agencies.China has undergone one of the fastest urbanisation and urban renewal processes in human history, but discussions of urban memory in China have tended to be practice-oriented and lack theoretical reflection. This book brings together interdisciplinary architectural scholarship to interrogate the production of urban memory and examine experiences in China. The 14 chapters explore different processes, projects, materials, architecture and urban spaces in different Chinese cities by analysing cityscapes such as temples, bridges, conservation projects, architectural design, historical architecture, memorial hall, market street, city images, custom bike, food market and so on. The book deals with different agencies and methods, tangible and intangible, in the construction of memories aimed at promoting hybridised multiple identities, and explores the interplay of different versions of memory, i.e. state, public, regional, local, individual and collective memory.This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of architecture and urbanism, cultural studies and China studies, as well as architects, urban planners and historians interested in these fields.

Pernice, Raffaele / Chen, Bing (eds.), Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 352 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-779>
ISBN 978-1-03-253894-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.The authors represent a broad selection of international experts, young scholars and established academics who discuss themes related to urban-rural destruction and economic and spatial regeneration techniques, the sustainable reconversion of natural landscapes and eco-urban design in the context of the current evolution of architectural and urbanism practice. The book aims to explain the conditions in which the contemporary debate about urban regeneration and rural revitalisation has developed in Australia and China, presented by different theoretical and methodological perspectives. It also provides a multifaceted and critical analysis of relevant case studies and urban experiences in Australia and China, focusing on environmental disruption, resized urban interventions and the need for more efficient and sustainable forms of regeneration and urban renewal practice in urban-rural contexts.This book will be an invaluable resource for architects, planners, architectural and urban historians, geographers, and scholars interested in modern Australian and Chinese architecture and urbanism.

Codebo, Agnese, The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires. (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas) 200 pp. 2024:5 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <717-842>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4809-4 hard ¥10,780.- (税込) US$ 50.00 *

モア・ザン・ヒューマンのスマートシティを設計する
Heitlinger, Sara / Foth, Marcus / Clarke, Rachel (eds.), Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation. 352 pp. 2024:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <717-862>
ISBN 978-0-19-288416-9 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-890489-2 paper ¥11,396.- (税込) GB￡ 40.00 *

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space. One response to such changes has been to make cities ecologically sustainable and 'smart'. The 'eco smart city' for instance uses networked sensing, cloud and mobile computing to optimise, control, and regulate urban processes and resources. From real-time bus information to autonomous electric vehicles, smart parking, and smart street lighting, such initiatives are often presented as a social and environmental good. Critics, however, increasingly argue that technologically driven, and efficiency-led approaches are too simplistic to deal with the complexities of urban life. Sustainability in the smart city is predominantly performed in limited ways that leave little room for participation and citizen agency despite government efforts to integrate innovative technologies in more equitable ways. More importantly, there is a growing awareness that a human-centred notion of cities, in which urban space is designed for, and inhabited by, humans only, is no longer tenable. Within the age of the Anthropocene - a term used to refer to a new geological era in which human activity is transforming Earth systems, accelerating climate change and causing mass extinctions - scholars and practitioners are working generatively by acknowledging the entanglements between human and non-human others (including plants, animals, insects, as well as soil, water, and sensors and their data) in urban life. In Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, renowned researchers and practitioners from urban planning, architecture, environmental humanities, geography, design, arts, and computing critically explore smart cities beyond a human-centred approach. They respond to the complex interrelations between human and non-human others in urban space. Through theory, policy and practice (past and present), and thinking speculatively about how smart cities may evolve in the future, the book makes a timely contribution to lively, contemporary scientific and political debates on genuinely sustainable smart cities.

Heppler, Jason A., Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism. (The Environment in Modern North America 9) 224 pp. 2024:4 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <717-863>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9373-1 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00
ISBN 978-0-8061-9374-8 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures of a new vision of the American West is the question Jason A. Heppler explores in this book. A revealing look at the significance of nature in social, cultural, and economic conceptions of place, the book is also a case study on the origins of American environmentalism and debates about urban and suburban sustainability. Between 1950 and 1990, business and community leaders pursued a new vision of the landscape stretching from Palo Alto to San Jose-a vision that melded the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology. Heppler describes the success of a new, clean, future-facing economy, coupled with a pleasant, green environment, in drawing people to Silicon Valley. And in this overwhelming success, he also locates the rapidly emerging faults created by competing ideas about forming these idyllic communities-specifically, widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification. Cities organized around high-tech industries, suburban growth, and urban expansion were, as Heppler shows, crucibles for empowering elites, worsening human health, and spreading pollution. What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.

デジタル技術、スマートシティ、環境
Kuntsman, Adi / Xin, Liu, Digital Technologies, Smart Cities and the Environment: In the Ruins of Broken Promises. 128 pp. 2024:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <717-866>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3714-6 hard ¥11,396.- (税込) GB￡ 40.00 *

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste, and help address climate change. Drawing on academic scholarship and two case studies from Manchester and Helsinki, this timely and accessible book examines what happens when these promises are broken, as they prioritise technological innovation rather than environmental care. The book reveals that smart cities' vision of sustainable digital future obfuscates the environmental harms and social injustices that digitisation inflicts. The framework of "broken promises", coined by the authors, centres environmental questions in analysing imaginaries and practices of smart cities. This is a must read for anyone interested in the connections between digital technologies and environment justice.

Baum, Jennifer, Just City: Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right. 272 pp. 2024:4 (Fordham U. Pr., US) <717-888>
ISBN 978-1-5315-0621-6 hard ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

A captivating memoir of New York's Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and unity defined the neighborhood Step into the world of Just City and embark on a poignant journey to a time when ideals were woven into the very fabric of a neighborhood. Jennifer Baum's evocative storytelling brings to life an era in New York City's history where affordable housing wasn't just a concept, but a reality that defined the essence of community. Within the pages of this captivating memoir, you'll find yourself transported to the historic Upper West Side-a place where diversity flourished and a shared belief in the importance of a home for all bound the residents together. Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt accounts, Baum illuminates her own upbringing alongside the stories of those who shared her neighborhood. She describes how as an adult, she came to appreciate that being raised in an integrated collective was a unique and exceptional experience. As she moves around the world for school, a husband, and work, she tells the story of her search for a home that would embody the values and community she grew up with. Just City goes beyond the physicality of housing; it unveils the emotional tapestry of housing for an entire generation. As you immerse yourself in the stories of rallies, grassroots efforts, and the sense of kinship that defined this era, you'll witness a generation that stood united for justice and fairness. The book captures not just moments, but the ethos of a time when the city was a testament to the power of community. Celebrate the legacy of an era when a city was truly a home, when principles of social responsibility thrived. Just City isn't just a memoir-it's an invitation to revive the spirit of unity and create a city where everyone belongs. So open its pages and let its words rekindle the flame of a just and inclusive city once more.

建築、都市空間、政治ハンドブック　第2巻
Bobic, Nikolina / Haghighi, Farzaneh (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics. Volume 2: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities. (Routledge International Handbooks) 664 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-889>
ISBN 978-0-367-62918-2 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this handbook extensively explored these oppressive roles. This second volume illustrates that escaping the corporatized and bureaucratized orders of power, techno-managerial and consumer-oriented capitalist economic models is more urgent and necessary than ever before. Herein lies the political role of architecture and urban space, including the ways through which they can be transformed and alternative political realities constituted. The volume explores the methods and spatial practices required to activate the political dimension and the possibility for alternative practices to operate in the existing oppressive systems while not being swallowed by these structures. Fostering new political consciousness is explored in terms of the following themes: Events and Dissidence; Biopolitics, Ethics and Desire; Climate and Ecology; Urban Commons and Social Participation; Marginalities and Postcolonialism. Volume II embraces engagement across disciplines and offers a wide range of projects and critical analyses across the so-called Global North and South. This multidisciplinary collection of 36 chapters provides the reader with an extensive resource of case studies and ways of thinking for architecture and urban space to become more emancipatory.

Courage, Cara / McKeown, Anita (eds.), Trauma Informed Placemaking. 424 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-892>
ISBN 978-1-03-244309-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-244310-2 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities.The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and of place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first- and third-person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented throughout. These are organised into four sections that lead the reader to an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field - how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place - and concludes with calls to action for the trauma-informed placemaking approach to be adopted.This book will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested in people and places, from artists and architects, policy makers and planners, community development workers and organisations, placemakers, to local and national governments. It will appeal to the disciplines of human geography, sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology and to placemakers, planners and policymakers and those working in community development.

De Magalhaes, Claudio / Sieh, Louie, Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis: Dilemmas and Lessons from London and Hong Kong. (Urban Policy, Planning and the Built Environment) 216 pp. 2024:6 (Policy Pr., UK) <717-893>
ISBN 978-1-4473-5885-5 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisations, voluntary groups and community bodies. Contrasting the more historical, horizontal character of London with the intense street life of high-rise Hong Kong, this book tells the story of the two cities' relationships with non-traditional forms of public space governance. The authors consider the implications for the 'publicness' of these complex spaces and the challenges and impacts that different forms of provision have on those with a stake in them, and on the cities as a whole.

ヘルシンキにおけるジェントリフィケーション
Drain, Kevin, Gentrification in Helsinki: Urban Planning at the Edge of the Welfare State. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 200 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <717-894>
ISBN 978-1-03-262261-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland. Here, housing and welfare policies work well under certain conditions to prevent the worst outcomes of residential gentrification. Yet other forms of gentrification have proliferated in recent years, and local urban planning has gained a momentum in efforts to remake the urban landscape for business and tourism.Through a range of methods, each chapter approaches a different aspect of gentrification: the effectiveness of welfare policies against residential gentrification, the importance of retail gentrification and symbolic changes, the role of media and state-led tourism campaigns in promoting gentrification, the rise of vibrancy and sustainability as concepts driving regeneration, and the question of planning principles like participation in confronting gentrification. The reader will find a state system that supports a delicate balance in housing, but a local planning regime related to a more "generalized" gentrification. The results raise questions about the limits of the welfare state in an age of global competition.While new readers of gentrification will benefit from a deep engagement with the literature, the case of Helsinki is relevant to all students of planning, social sciences, and urban studies, as well as professionals in related fields.

Duzy, Wieslawa (ed.), Modelling the City: Formal Ontology and Spatial Humanities. (Routledge Spatial Humanities Series) 224 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <717-895>
ISBN 978-1-03-269584-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Modelling the City focuses on European towns and cities, analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space.This book examines how urban space from the past is discovered, explained and presented. It discusses the multitude of historical sources mediating the past urban space, and the structural, technical, and epistemological issues raised around building a domain ontology, including continuity, and change within urban forms and functions.Presentation of a formal domain ontology in spatial humanities makes this book unique and worth reading. It is strongly recommended to readers interested in the linked open data approach to research, data standards in Digital Humanities, urban planning, and old maps.

オリンピック都市　1896～2020年　第4版
Gold, John / Gold, Margaret M. (eds.), Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896 - 2032. 4th ed. (Planning, History and Environment Series) 586 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <717-896>
ISBN 978-1-03-228711-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-228709-6 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and much enlarged fourth edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals: the Summer Games; Winter Games; Cultural Olympiads; and the Paralympics. The second part comprises systematic surveys of six key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics and Paralympics: finance; sustainability; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; and tourism. The final part consists of ten chronologically arranged portraits of host cities from 1960 to 2032, with complete coverage of the Summer Games of the twenty-first century.As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of democratic accountability and legacy, continues unabated, this book's incisive and timely assessment of the Games' development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for a wide audience. This will include not just urban and sports historians, urban geographers, event managers, and city planners, but also anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events and concerned with building a better understanding of the relationship between cities, sport, and culture.

Gyoerke, Agnes / Juhasz, Tamas (eds.), Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies. 330 pp. 2024:1 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <717-897>
ISBN 978-94-6270-394-0 paper ¥18,326.- (税込) EUR 59.50

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The case studies situate Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas as they explore the period of modernism, the mid-century, and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country.Contributors: Arpad Bak (University of Leeds), Eva Federmayer (Eoetvoes Lorand University), Magdolna Gucsa (Eoetvoes Lorand University / EHESS), Agnes Gyoerke (Karoli Gaspar University), Ferenc Hoercher (Eoetvoes Jozsef Research Centre), Tamas Juhasz (Karoli Gaspar University), Gyoergy Kalmar (University of Debrecen), Laszlo Muntean (Radboud University), Agnes Klara Papp (Karoli Gaspar University), Marta Pellerdi (Pazmany Peter Catholic University), Eszter Ureczky (University of Debrecen).This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/

Homan, Shane / O'Hanlon, Seamus / Strong, C. et al. (eds.), Interrogating Popular Music and the City. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) 240 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <717-900>
ISBN 978-1-03-229132-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are addressed in this critical examination of relationships between cities and music. The book draws upon an international array of researchers, encompassing hip hop in Beijing; the city favelas of Brazil; from Melbourne bars to European parliaments; to heritage and tourism debates in Salzburg and Manchester. In doing so, it interrogates the different agendas of audiences, musicians and policy-makers in distinct urban settings.

Lye, Kit Ying / Heng, Terence (eds.), Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 208 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-904>
ISBN 978-1-03-238398-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-238395-8 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how individuals and collectives "do" death and interact with the dead.Through case studies of Singaporean Chinese religion communities, the authors bring a myriad of knowledge and experience from eight different but interconnected disciplines to examine, map, document, and theorise the practices of death and the afterlife. Heritage here is not just a point of nostalgia or historical snapshot, but becomes a significant resource for the shaping of and grappling with diasporic and contemporary Singaporean Chinese identities. This edited collection moves beyond "western" sites of knowledge by offering a series of multidisciplinary perspectives on death practices, drawn from research with individuals, groups, and organisations that identify themselves as Singaporean Chinese, and the spaces and places often referred to as "Chinese Singapore".This collection will appeal to a wide and diverse audience of scholars, students, and practitioners. In particular, key target audiences would include, but are not limited to those interested in Asia, particularly Chinese studies and Chinese migrant/diasporic communities, and scholars in sociology, history, anthropology, and social/cultural geography.

Martin-Shields, Charles, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks. (McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) 234 pp. 2024:3 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <717-905>
ISBN 978-0-228-02051-6 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-228-02052-3 paper ¥8,181.- (税込) US$ 37.95 *

Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital technologies are fundamentally changing how refugees and displaced people engage with urban landscapes and economies where they settle.Urban Refugees and Digital Technology draws on contemporary data gathered from refugee communities in Bogota, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur to build a new theoretical understanding of how technological change influences the ways urban refugees contribute to the social, economic, and political networks in their cities of arrival. This data is presented against the broader history of technological change in urban areas since the start of industrialization, showing how displaced people across time have used technologized urban spaces to shape the societies where they settle. The case studies and history demonstrate how refugees' interactions with environments that are often hostile to their presence spur novel adaptations to idiosyncratic features of a city's technological landscape.A wide-ranging study across histories and geographies of urban displacement, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology introduces readers to the myriad ways technological change creates spaces for urban refugees to build rich political, social, and economic lives in cities.

Noone, Rebecca, Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps. 192 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <717-907>
ISBN 978-1-03-217049-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps explores the mundane act of navigating cities in the age of digital mapping infrastructures.Noone follows the frictions routing through Google Maps' categorising and classifying of spatial information. Complicating the assumption that digital maps distort a sense of direction, Noone argues that Google Maps' location awareness does more than just organise and orient a representation of space-it also organises and orients imaginaries of publicness, selfsufficiency, legibility, and error. At the same time, Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps helps to animate the ordinary ways people are challenging and refusing Google Maps' vision of the world. Drawing on an arts-based field study spanning the streets of London, New York, London, Toronto, and Amsterdam, Noone's encounters of "asking for directions" open up lines of inquiry and spatial scores that cut through Google's universal mapping project.Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps will be essential reading for information studies and media studies scholars and students with an interest in embodied information practices, critical information studies, and critical data studies. The book will also appeal to an urban studies audience engaged in work on the digital city and the datafication of urban environments.

Tomaney, John / Blackman, Maeve / Natarajan, Lucy et al., Social infrastructure and left behind places. (Regional Studies Policy Impact Books) 104 pp. 2024:2 (Routledge, UK) <717-909>
ISBN 978-1-03-271004-4 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in 'left-behind places'. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash against globalisation and liberal democracy. The book focuses on the role of social infrastructure as a key component of this story.Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading 'left behind places', the book addresses the understudied affective dimensions of 'left-behindness'. It develops an analytical framework that emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers 'left behind places' as 'moral communities' and the making of social infrastructure as an expression of this; views the unmaking of social infrastructure through the lens of 'root shock'; and explains efforts at remaking it in terms of the articulation of 'radical hope'.The analysis builds upon a case study of a former mining community in County Durham, North East England. Using mixed methods, it offers a 'deep place study' of a single village to understand more fully the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure. It shows how a place once richly endowed with social infrastructure, saw this endowment wither and the effects this had on the community. However, it also records efforts of the local people to rebuild social infrastructure, typically drawing the lessons of the past. Although the story of one village, the methods, results and policy recommendation have much wider applicability.The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and others concerned with the fate of 'left behind places'.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Cantor, Douglas, Term Limits and the Modern Era of Municipal Reform. (Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy 7) 160 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <717-663>
ISBN 978-1-03-275303-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Term limits enjoy broad popularity among Americans, yet scholarly literature has omitted two important questions from the study of municipal reform: Why are term limits so popular, and what are the causes of movements for term limits? In this book, Douglas Cantor exposes the causes of term limits at the local level of government to shed light on how and why the movement to adopt term limits came to exist.Cantor begins his analysis by providing a history of term limits, beginning with classical debates in Greek philosophy. He describes the benefits of studying the causes of term limits and how term limits are a direct manifestation of older values rooted in the American traditions of municipal reform. Part II examines 20 different municipalities across the continental United States that experienced a movement to implement term limits through a political campaign, voter initiative, or council-led charter amendment. Written to a common template and examining each case through the lens of the reform impulse, Cantor argues that the institutional lineage of the Progressives, namely council-manager governments, at-large elections, and nonpartisanship, is largely responsible for movements to implement term limits somewhere in the United States in almost every election.Term Limits and the Modern Era of Municipal Reformbrings a new dimension to the Progressive era, championing the study of local politics and its importance to understanding American politics.

McGregor, R. Michael / Stephenson, Laura B. (eds.), Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance) 276 pp. 2024:3 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <717-668>
ISBN 978-0-228-02023-3 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-228-02024-0 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Municipal elections in Canada don't look much like those held at the federal and provincial levels. A key difference is a significant discrepancy in voter turnout, but relatively little is known about why far fewer people vote in city elections.Voters show less interest in local government, seeing it as less influential than other levels, yet they believe their views matter more to local politicians. Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections explores this apparent contradiction by asking who participates in politics, how they go about it, and why. Drawing from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, a novel survey of electors in eight large cities across the country in 2017 and 2018, contributors consider factors ranging from the universal - such as the demographic profile of voters or how economic conditions affect them - to the specific - for example, participation in school board and council elections.There are more municipal elections than any other kind in Canada. The discoveries in Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections collectively represent a major leap forward in our understanding of voter activity at the community and municipal level.

都市、変化、対立－都市生活の政治経済　第6版
Kleniewski, Nancy / Thomas, Alexander R. / Fulkerson, G., Cities, Change, and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life. 6th ed. 436 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <717-260>
ISBN 978-1-03-256599-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-256601-6 paper ¥20,509.- (税込) GB￡ 71.99 *

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions of human ecology as well as perspectives derived from critical approaches to social theory. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities in other parts of the world, including the Global North and Global South. It provides both historical and contemporary accounts of the impact of globalization on urban development and urban institutions.This sixth edition features a new, groundbreaking chapter on the relationship between the physical environment and human settlements, including the urban-rural nexus. This edition also expands and updates coverage of recent trends such as the establishment and evolution of gay neighborhoods, the suburbanization of immigrant groups, the situation of the immigrant youth known as "Dreamers," the reverse migration of Blacks from the North to the South, and the proliferation of exurban communities. Beyond examining the dynamics that shape the form and functionality of cities, the text surveys the experience of urban life among different social groups, including a new perspective on intersectionality as it affects people's experiences in cities. It illuminates the workings of the urban economy, local and federal governments, and the criminal justice system while addressing policy debates and decisions that affect almost every aspect of urbanization and urban life.