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

Mitra Channa, Subhadra, Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974-2023. 264 pp. 2024:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <724-713>
ISBN 978-0-19-892620-7 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974-2023 is a saga covering more than four decades of interactions with an 'untouchable' caste--the Dhobis (washermen and washerwomen), who are among Delhi's oldest inhabitants. It describes their ways of life, economy, livelihood, struggles, and adaptation to the city's changing demographic, cultural, and politico-economic profile. Utilizing an experiential perspective and a gendered and feminist approach, the author elaborates on the Dhobi identity, which is focused on their community (biradari), and discusses their struggles to be identified as skilled professionals at par with others, rejecting at the same time the political identity of being Dalit. Discarding their earlier subjugated sense of the self, the Dhobis are developing an emerging consciousness as democratic citizens, nurturing ambitions of a future where they will find acceptance as a community. To that end, the book also analyses how their marginalized caste-based occupation and skills ensure for them a livelihood and viability within the market economy. Highlighting the community's strategies and tactics of survival and resilience against all odds, Dhobis of Delhi is thus the story of a city viewed through the eyes of those who live on the lowest rung of its social hierarchy but whose contribution to the life of the city is essential, albeit invisible.

Arcidiacono, Andrea / Di Vita, Stefano (eds.), Beyond the 2026 Winter Olympic Games: Sustainable Scenarios for the Valtellina Mountain Region. (Mega Event Planning) 161 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-768>
ISBN 978-981-9980-91-8 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina. It brings an up-to-date analysis of the complex interactions between mega-events and remote areas, both in terms of potentials for regeneration and risks for further segregation. Remote areas are traditionally characterized by socio-economic and spatial disparities. On the one hand, they benefit from attractive features, such as environmental and landscape resources, food and wine production, and energy production. On the other, they are by definition fragile environments, disrupted by the contradictions of international tourism, climate change, limited infrastructures and services, rural abandonment, and demographic decline.This book offers credible solutions for the sustainable development of mountainous regions as a legacy of Winter Olympics. It is an essential resource for scholars, professionals, and policy-makers in the fieldsof urban planning and design, architecture design, geography, sociology, and economics.

Bronin, Sara C., Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World. 208 pp. 2024:10 (Norton, US) <724-789>
ISBN 978-0-393-88166-0 hard ¥6,250.- (税込) US$ 28.99 *

Zoning codes have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, determining how citizens experience their cities. Yet zoning remains invisible. In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin reveals the impact of zoning-for good and ill-in cities across the US, from Hartford to Baltimore and Las Vegas to Chicago. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritised cars over people and enabled great ecological harm. As Bronin argues, once we recognise the power of zoning, we can harness it to instead create walkable and vibrant communities, resist the monotonous effects of suburban sprawl, integrate design elements that inspire delight and ensure that everyone has access to affordable housing, public transportation and healthy food. Key to the City demystifies the invisible force shaping our communities and puts forward a practical and energising vision for how we can reimagine them.

オリンピック・ゲームとグローバルな都市
Faure, Alexandre (ed.), Olympic Games and Global Cities: What Future for an Olympic System in Turmoil? (Mega Event Planning) 151 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-790>
ISBN 978-981-9995-98-1 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99 *

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies. Historically, Western cities such as Paris, London, and later Los Angeles, have been the primary hosts of the summer Games. However, the link that existed between the world metropolises of the last century and the Games has deeply changed. Growing concerns about the Games' costs and environmental impact have prompted a shift in the expectations of candidate cities and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This evolution favours more modest bids, and a resurgence of global cities and historical Olympic host cities within the Olympic landscape. This book is an essential resource for researchers in Olympic studies, urban studies, and all those involved in the planning of these events.

Feria Toribio, Jose Maria et al. (eds.), Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Mediterranean Europe: Exploring Metropolitan Structural Processes and Short-term Change. (Spatial Demography Book Series 3) 375 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-791>
ISBN 978-3-031-55435-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book analyses the most recent socio-territorial trends that are developing in the Spanish metropolitan space. The first part focuses on the most recent metropolitan dynamics and demographic changes in Southern Europe. The second part discusses the most important processes in metropolitan areas: the problems of increasing social and residential vulnerability and the problems of diversity management. The third part analyses some concrete cases of the main changes and complexity in the spatial dynamics of metropolitan areas in Southern Europe. Finally, the fourth and last part provides an overview on the instruments and the resources put in place by some Southern European cities for the development of governance and citizen participation as an instrument of reaction to the social, economic and COVID crisis. By discussing the main changes and uncertainties derived from the social scenarios after the pandemic, the dynamics of social dualisation of the city, as well as the necessaryinstruments for its analysis and the main challenges in urban governance with special attention of Southern European context, this book provides an interesting read for spatial demographers, human geographers, social scientists and spatial planners.

Lo Piccolo, Francesco / Mangiaracina, A. et al. (eds.), In and Out: Rights of Migrants in the European Space. (UNIPA Springer Series) 319 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-793>
ISBN 978-3-031-51130-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines contemporary migratory movements, starting from the European zone, but with an extension to other territorial contexts as well, with research orientation that focuses on the account of the migratory experiences collected in the research activity of the different authors, according to a multidisciplinary dimension. Starting from these key topics, the authors articulated and further developed its reflections through its own experiences at the national and international level, taking root within the current scientific debate on migration. The interdisciplinary approach and the different and innovative ways of analysing in depth the thematic contents of the migration phenomenon have made it possible to identify some key research questions. The relative answers find space in the articulated and complex system of contributions that is developed within this book and in particular in the three thematic parts into which it is divided. The first one deals with the theme of migration confronted with issues related to the 'right to the city' and the 'right to housing'; the second one deals with issues related to human rights; finally, the third one focuses on the different narratives of migrants' life experiences and aspects related to the linguistic representation of the urban space.

Nightingale, Carl, Our Urban Planet in Theory and History. (Elements in Global Urban History) 75 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <724-795>
ISBN 978-1-00-949459-5 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-932180-8 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the Anthropocene. We must enlarge our concept of 'urban' to include spaces that make cities possible and that cities make possible and become comfortable with longer temporal frames that nest global urban history within Earth Time. Above all we need to add the crucial dimension of power, redefining cities as spaces that humans produce to amplify harvests of geo-solar energy and deploy human power within space and time. The element uses insights from 'deep history' to set the stage for a 'theory by verb' elaborating the many paradoxes of humans' 6,000-year gamble with the Urban Condition and explaining cities' own intrinsic capacity to outrun their own theorizability.

Spencer, Sarah / Atac, Ilker / Bastick, Zach et al., Migrants with a Precarious Status: Evolving Approaches of European Cities. (IMISCOE Research Series) 212 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) * paper 2024:5 <724-796>
ISBN 978-3-031-55850-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-55853-5 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book is an exploration of city responses to migrants with a precarious status in Europe. It provides new evidence and analysis from research on three cities in Austria, Germany and the UK: Vienna, Frankfurt and Cardiff. The book explores strategies and services of municipal authorities towards precarious migrants and their cooperation with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in service provision. It focuses on healthcare, education, housing and access to advice; and particular attention is given to the situation of women.The book develops the concept of precarity in relation to migration status, and of horizontal governance arrangements within municipal authorities. It explores the tension between exclusion and inclusion of migrants who have limited rights of access to welfare services, and contributes evidence on the factors shaping municipal policy making, as well as on the framing of rationales for providing access to essential services.

都市のパターンと形態の社会的解釈
Talen, Emily, What Cities Say: A Social Interpretation of Urban Patterns and Forms. 352 pp. 2024:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <724-797>
ISBN 978-0-19-764776-9 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-764777-6 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Cities come in all shapes and sizes, with different patterns and forms. Streets might be strictly gridded or curvilinear. Buildings might be tightly packed or spread out. Patterns and forms might reflect the highest aspirations, or they might simply be responses to mundane, utilitarian needs. So what do cities "say" about a society? What do patterns and forms reveal about social priorities and cultural preferences, or about who has power and who does not? In What Cities Say, Emily Talen provides a wide-ranging yet concise synthesis of the fundamental drivers of built form, its social and cultural meaning, and how we should interpret it. Including thirty-five distinct city patterns and forms, Talen develops a language of interpretation to understand the motive and meaning behind the city and its elements. Talen argues that meaning is often implicit, and even if it's more explicit, it is woven in haphazardly through city planning texts in often contradictory ways. To cut through the noise and ambiguity, she focuses on the persistent themes that inhere in built pattern and form, whether for complete cities or individual places. She makes ample use of digital resources to render these interpretations in explicit terms. By exposing these meanings, Talen asserts that we will be in a stronger position to articulate, and argue for, the kinds of cities we want. Richly illustrated and tightly presented, What Cities Say is essential reading for anyone interested in the values and ideas that serve as the foundation of how we construct our cities.

移民と都市
Triandafyllidou, Anna / Moghadam, Amin et al. (eds.), Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy Advances. (IMISCOE Research Series) 307 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <724-798>
ISBN 978-3-031-55679-1 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-55682-1 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special character of the urban context as a territorial and political space where people coexist, whether by choice or necessity. Drawing on heterogeneous situations in cities in different world regions (including Europe, North America, the Middle East, South, Southeast and East Asia and the Asia Pacific) contributions to this volume examine how migration and the urban context interact in the twenty-first century. The book is structured in four parts. The first looks at cities as hubs of cultural creativity, exploring the many dimensions of cultural diversity and identity as they are negotiated in the urban context. The second focuses on what lies outside the large urban centres of today, notably suburbs, while the third part engages with migration and diversity in small and mid-sized cities, many of which have adopted strategies to welcome growing numbers of migrants. Last but not least, the fourth part looks at the challenges and opportunities that asylum-seeking and irregular migration flows bring to cities. By providing a variety of empirical cases based on various world regions, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, students and policy makers.

Invernale, Antonio / Morena, Marzia / Truppi, Tommaso, The Enhancement of the Italian Territory: Alternative Financial Strategies for Small Municipalities. (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology / PoliMI SpringerBriefs) 105 pp. 2024:5 (Springer, GW) <724-204>
ISBN 978-3-031-54055-4 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99