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

Sivaramakrishnan, Lakshmi / Bandyopadhyay, Sumana (eds.), Sustainable Urban Forms and Communities: Urban Geographies of Eastern India: Urban Geographies of Eastern India. 300 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-703>
ISBN 978-1-03-226648-0 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century. It focuses on the emerging urban landscapes of the state and neighbouring areas on building sustainable urban units and sustainable communities. The book explores the changing urban geographies of the emerging towns of the state and discusses how proper governance can help them to change into sustainable urban units. It presents the historical context of urbanization of West Bengal and traces the factors responsible for the urban primacy of the state. It discusses topics such as the development of the spatial patterns and urbanization, spatial trends of urban growth using remote sensing and GIS techniques, well-being and resilience in the urban society, impact of urbanization on the health status of its citizens, and decentralized governance for inclusive and sustainable development of cities. It also focuses on urban growth, land-use change and its impact on the urban environment. Based on empirical research, this book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers of geography, urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning urban sociology, politics, and urban economics. It will also be of interest to geographers, urban planners, community of geographers, professionals engaged in the discipline, and those interested in the urban geography of West Bengal and eastern India.

Appelhans, Nadine / Rawhani, Carmel et al. (eds.), Everyday Urban Practices in Africa: Disrupting Global Norms. (Routledge Studies in African Development) 292 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <725-735>
ISBN 978-1-03-246698-9 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. International policy frameworks have created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, these frameworks have also imposed global paradigms and discourses that are often in conflict with local urbanisms. As we approach the deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, there is need for reflection and deliberation on a post-2030 agenda.The authors identify powerful assumptions, norms, and positionalities that obfuscate the efforts to achieve sustainable development in African cities, as well as along the North-South divide. They argue that a disruptive critique of these normative concepts, grounded in the lived African urban everyday, opens up opportunities to dismantle their assumed neutrality. Through disruption, the authors critically re-interpret the meanings of policy and the praxis of local urbanism, ultimately challenging the logic of universalising concepts underpinning implementation in the current international policy system, and asserting the need for contextualised urban policies.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human settlements, development studies, urban geography, and African studies. It will also be useful for practitioners including town and regional/urban planners, urban policy consultants, and international development cooperation agencies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Bradlow, Benjamin H., Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg. (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology) 224 pp. 2024:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-736>
ISBN 978-0-691-23711-4 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-691-23712-1 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life-including adequate housing, accessible sanitation, and reliable transportation-are largely unavailable. Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in the built environment? In Urban Power, Benjamin Bradlow explores this question, examining the effectiveness of urban governance in two "megacities" in young democracies: Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Both cities came out of periods of authoritarian rule with similarly high inequalities and similar policy priorities to lower them. And yet Sao Paulo has been far more successful than Johannesburg in improving access to basic urban goods.Bradlow examines the relationships between local government bureaucracies and urban social movements that have shaped these outcomes. Drawing on sixteen months of fieldwork in both cities, including interviews with informants from government agencies, political leadership, social movements, private developers, bus companies, and water and sanitation companies, Bradlow details the political and professional conflicts between and within movements, governments, private corporations, and political parties. He proposes a bold theoretical approach for a new global urban sociology that focuses on variations in the coordination of local governing power, arguing that the concepts of "embeddedness" and "cohesion" explain processes of change that bridge external social mobilization and the internal coordinating capacity of local government to implement policy changes.

Mercer, Claire, The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam. 220 pp. 2024:9 (U. California Pr., US) <725-745>
ISBN 978-0-520-40238-6 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer details how the "suburban frontier" has become the place where Africa's middle classes are shaped. As the first book-length analysis of Africa's suburban middle class, The Suburban Frontier offers significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.

Black, Philip / Martin, Michael / Phillips, Robert et al., Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach. 335 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-838>
ISBN 978-0-367-90398-5 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-89754-3 paper ¥9,968.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery. The framework is presented across four distinct steps, covering analysis at strategic and local scales; the urban design program; design development; and technical design. The authors unpack the functional blueprints, liveable qualities, contextual dynamics, and technical components of quality urban design, identifying the role of urban designers in shaping spaces and places across differing local contexts through a responsive and multiscalar approach. International best practice examples and two original 'live' case studies in Aalborg, Denmark and Manchester, UK demonstrate the application of the framework across differing scales and contexts - each supported by authors own images and graphics that illustrate the broad range of urban design visualisation techniques and methods.Visually compelling and insightful, Applied Urban Design is for all who seek to understand, demand, and create people-centred, high-quality, contextually responsive places and spaces.

Borrup, Tom / Zitcer, Andrew (eds.), Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life. (Community Development Research and Practice Series) 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-839>
ISBN 978-1-03-275873-2 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-275872-5 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities in a range of countries including the United States, Australia, Portugal, Nepal, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The book demonstrates how creativity is integrated in place-based actions, aesthetic strategies, learning environments, and civic processes. As long-time champions and observers of community-based creative and cultural practices, editors Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer elucidate work that not only responds to sociopolitical conditions but advances practice. They call on artists, funders, cultural organizations, community groups, educational institutions, government, and others to engage in and support this work that fosters a culture of democracy.This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, activists, funders, and artists who seek to understand and effect change on local and global scales to preserve, extend, and improve practices of democracy.

Bounds, Anna Maria, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place. (Routledge Studies in Urban Sociology) 144 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-840>
ISBN 978-1-03-250942-6 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-250944-0 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Drawing on urban and community resilience literature, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place offers a detailed qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the philosophy and practices of the city's urban prepper subculture.With a special focus on the height of the pandemic in New York, this book considers the city's unique position as the pandemic's first epicenter in the United States. It also explores the lived experience of enduring the pandemic as reflections of class division, considering key themes, including the exodus of the wealthy, sheltering in place for the middle class, the inability to leave high-risk neighborhoods for the poor, and sheltering-in-place practices and community resilience efforts by New York preppers. It analyzes the importance of good government and an engaged citizenry in developing an agenda for the city's continued recovery and its future, underscoring the need for cities to develop disaster management approaches that expand traditional "command and control" models to make space for local knowledge and resources.At its core, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place is about understanding New York City's pandemic experience and how self-reliance evolves into community resilience outside of institutions. It is vital reading for scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, geography and urban studies with interests in subcultures, ethnography and the sociology of disasters.

Chakrabarti, Vishaan, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. 280 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-842>
ISBN 978-0-691-20843-5 hard ¥7,977.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challengesThe world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet's population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all.Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, Chakrabarti examines architecture's relationship to history's greatest social, technological, and environmental dilemmas. He then presents a rich selection of work by a global array of practicing architects, demonstrating how innovative design can dramatically improve life in big cities and small settlements around the world, from campuses and refugee camps to mega-cities like Sao Paulo, Lima, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo.Lavishly illustrated with a wealth of original graphics, data visualizations, photographs, and drawings, The Architecture of Urbanity eloquently explains why cities are the last, best hope for humanity, and why designers must, alongside political, business, community, and cultural leaders, steward the healing of our planet.

ジェントリフィケーション、白人の空間形成、黒人の場所の感覚
Evans, Shani Adia, We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place. 240 pp. 2025:1 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-843>
ISBN 978-0-226-83776-5 hard ¥24,794.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83775-8 paper ¥5,390.- (税込) US$ 25.00

A landmark study that shows how Black residents experience and respond to the rapid transformation of historically Black places. Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called "America's whitest city," Black residents who grew up in the neighborhoods of northeast Portland have made it their own. The district of Albina, also called "Northeast," was their haven and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina changed dramatically-it became majority white. In We Belong Here, sociologist Shani Adia Evans offers an intimate look at gentrification from the inside, documenting the reactions of the residents of Albina as the racial demographics of their neighborhood shift. As white culture becomes centered in Northeast, Black residents recount their experiences with what Evans refers to as "white watching," the questioning look on the faces of white people they encounter, which conveys an exclusionary message: "What are you doing here?" This, Evans shows, is a prime example of what she calls "white spacemaking": the establishment of white space-spaces in which whiteness is assumed to be the norm-in formerly non-white neighborhoods. While gentrification typically describes socioeconomic changes that may have racial implications, white spacemaking allows us to understand racism as a primary mechanism of neighborhood change. We Belong Here illuminates why gentrification and white spacemaking should be examined as intersecting, but not interchangeable, processes of neighborhood change.

Handley, Derek G., Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement. (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation) 214 pp. 2024:9 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <725-844>
ISBN 978-0-271-09775-6 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95
ISBN 978-0-271-09776-3 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents confronting this diagnosis of "blight" in northern cities in the 1950s and 1960s.Examining Black newspapers, archival documents from Black organizations, and oral histories of community advocates, Derek G. Handley shows how African American residents in three communities-the Hill district of Pittsburgh, the Bronzeville neighborhood of Milwaukee, and the Rondo district of St. Paul-enacted a new form of citizenship to fight for their neighborhoods. Dubbing this the "Black Rhetorical Citizenship," a nod to the integral role of language and other symbolic means in the Black Freedom Movement, Handley situates citizenship as both a site of resistance and a mode of public engagement that cannot be divorced from race and the effects of racism. Through this framework, Struggle for the City demonstrates how local organizers, leaders, and residents used rhetorics of placemaking, community organizing, and critical memory to resist the bulldozing visions of urban renewal.By showing how African American residents built political community at the local level and by centering the residents in their own narratives of displacement, Handley recovers strategies of resistance that continue to influence the actions of the Black Freedom Movement, including Black Lives Matter.

建築とアーバニズムにおけるスマート・デザイン思考必携
Kanaani, Mitra (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism: For a Sustainable, Living Planet. 688 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <725-847>
ISBN 978-1-032-46990-4 hard ¥59,829.- (税込) GB￡ 210.00 *

This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of "smart" approaches to design thinking that augment the potentials of user experiences as well as his/her physical and mental interactions with the built environment.Split into six paradigms, this volume looks at the theoretical and historical background of smart design, smart design methodologies and typologies, smart materials, smart design for extreme weather and climatic regions, as well as climate change issues and side effects, smart mobility, and the role of digital technologies and simulations in architectural and urban design. Often at odds with each other, this volume places emphasis on smart design for various typologies and user groups, emphasizing on advancements in form-making and implementation of technology for healthy and sustainable living environments.Written by emerging and established architects, planners, designers, scientists, and engineers from around the globe, this will be an essential reference volume for architecture and urban design students and scholars as well as those in related fields interested in the implications, various facets and futures of smart design.

都市部の端でジェントリフィケーションと戦う
Lung-Amam, Willow S., The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge. 360 pp. 2024:9 (U. California Pr., US) <725-848>
ISBN 978-0-520-33816-6 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-33817-3 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC-one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States-have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment. Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"-that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs-and how communities are fighting back.

ロンドンとニューヨークにおける中間層向け住宅と都市部の不平等
Meubrink, Yuca, Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door. (Explorations in Housing Studies) 264 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-851>
ISBN 978-1-03-274273-1 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. This book problematizes those programs in London and New York City by offering an empirical, research-based perspective on the socio-spatial dimensions of inclusionary housing approaches in both cities. The aim of those programs is to produce affordable housing and foster greater socio-economic inclusion by mandating or incentivizing private developers to include affordable housing units within their market-rate residential developments.The starting point of this book is the so-called "poor door" practice in London and New York City, which results in mixed-income developments with separate entrances for "affordable housing" and wealthier market-rate residents. Focusing on this "poor door" practice allowed for a critical look at the housing program behind it. By exploring the relationship between inclusionary housing, new-build gentrification, and austerity urbanism, this book highlights the complexity of the planning process and the ambivalences and interdependencies of the actors involved. Thereby, it provides evidence that the provision of affordable housing or social mixing through this program has only limited success and, above all, that it promotes - in a sense through the "back door" - the very gentrification and displacement mechanisms it is supposed to counteract.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of housing studies, planning, and urban sociology, as well as planners and policymakers who are interested in the consequences of their own housing programs.

Slack, Tim / Monnat, Shannon M., Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities. (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century 9) 232 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-853>
ISBN 978-0-520-40112-9 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-40113-6 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban life. Rural and Small-Town America looks at what we can learn from rural society and confronts common myths and misunderstandings about rural people and places. Tim Slack and Shannon M. Monnat examine social, economic, and demographic changes and how these changes pose both problems and opportunities for rural communities. They assess changes in population size and composition, economies and livelihoods, ethnoracial diversity and inequities, population health and health disparities, and politics and policies. The central focus of this book is that rural America is no paragon of stability. Social change abounds, accompanied by new challenges. Through analysis of empirical evidence, demographic data, and policy debates, readers will glean insights about rural America and the United States as a whole.

Tabb, Phillip James / Tatriele, Lahra, Wellness Architecture and Urban Design. 256 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-854>
ISBN 978-1-03-275203-7 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-275201-3 paper ¥9,113.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99 *

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices. Wellness Architecture and Urban Design presents definitions, an analysis of the wellness literature, and a brief history of the wellness movement. Specific planning and design strategies are presented citing examples worldwide and emphasizing the importance of wellness considerations at all scales of the built environment from rooms to cities. Both case studies offer fully integrated and comprehensive wellness design approaches creating resilient and life-enhancing wellness through each of the architecture and urban design scales. The book will be of interest to practitioners and students working in urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and affiliated fields.

Visvizi, Anna / Godlewska-Majkowska, Hanna (eds.), Smart Cities: Lock-in, Path-dependence and Non-linearity of Digitalization and Smartification. 256 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-856>
ISBN 978-1-03-253950-8 hard ¥42,735.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.It is commonplace to discuss smart cities through the lens of advances in ICT. The resulting overemphasis on what is technologically possible downplays what is politically, socially and economically feasible. This book, by analysing the smart city through a variety of perspectives, offers a more comprehensive insight into and understanding of the complex and the open-ended nature of the growth and development of a smart city. A solid conceptual framework is developed and employed throughout the chapters, and a selection of case studies from Europe, Asia, and the Arab Peninsula grants the readers a hands-on perspective of the matters discussed.The chapters included in this book address a set of questions, including:How do the twin-processes of digitalization and smartification unfold in the context of the smart city agenda? How do these processes relate to the concepts of smart city 1.0, 2.0., 3.0. and 4.0?In which ways have the spatial aspects of city functioning been influenced by the intrusion of ICT? In which ways do the same processes contribute to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?What are the implications of smartification and the emergence of smart organizations (public, private, and voluntary) for the spatial development of smart cities?Do ICT and its application in the city space boost the processes of revitalization and how does ICT influence the process of gentrification?To what extent and how does the intrusion of ICT-enhanced tools and applications in the city space impact on a city's relationship with its broader territorially defined context?Are the administrative borders and divisions inherent in the fabric of a city becoming less/more porous? How should urban sprawl be conceived in the context of the smart city debate?This book will have a broad appeal to academics, students, and policy makers with interests in urban planning, sustainable development, cities, economics, technology, sociology, urban studies, digitalization, SDGs, wellbeing, and resilience.

城所哲夫、瀬田史彦他編　新自由主義政策と不平等－アジアの都市地域からの証拠
Biswas, Arindam / Kidokoro, Tetsuo / Seta, Fumihiko (eds.), Neoliberal Policies and Inequality: Evidence from Asian City Regions. 230 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-610>
ISBN 978-1-03-211329-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the discourse on urban and regional inequality within the framework of neoliberalism. It analyzes the widespread application of neoliberal policies in Asian city regions and identifies their influence on rising inequality. The book captures inequality through spatial and non-spatial policy narratives with empirical evidence from India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The book uses analytics, narratives and simulation to unfold the opportunities and threats to urban regions that bear the impacts of globalization and neoliberal policies.Lucid and topical, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of urban economics, urban and regional planning, urban studies, urban sociology, political economy, public policy, governance, development studies and Asian economy.

Ittner, Irit / Sharma, Sneha / Khambule, I. et al. (eds.), Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa. (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design) 208 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-612>
ISBN 978-1-03-280003-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of socioeconomic, administrative, and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of greenfield development, the airport city, or land resources reserved for future airport expansion.The authors in this book emphasise why airport construction is a politically sensitive issue in low-income and low-middle-income countries, which serve as the last development frontier of the aviation sector. They argue that observed airport development was rather motivated by the perception of airports as engines for national economic growth, while improving air mobility of national populations was not the main driver. Under dominant national development visions, airport-induced dynamics threatened local livelihoods by triggering economies of anticipation, the reconfiguration of land markets, rapid land use changes, a transition from rural to urban livelihoods, the displacement of communities, the perpetuation of human-wildlife conflicts, or inter-ethnic violence. The authors also highlight colonial path dependencies; legal pluralism in land tenure; the hegemonic relations between builders, investors, and the affected residents; as well as strategies of local protest movements.This book is recommended for readers interested in infrastructure-induced conflicts and environmental injustice.Chapter 1 and Chapter 8 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.

Mell, Ian, Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities: Case Studies in Green Infrastructure Methods and Practice. 240 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-614>
ISBN 978-0-367-34936-3 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-34937-0 paper ¥9,113.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99 *

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities. The book reflects upon the integration of contemporary approaches to landscape planning alongside traditional forms of green space design and cultural understandings of the landscape in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Working from a multi-locational perspective, the book illustrates how political, socio-cultural, economic, and ecological factors influence the delivery of GI and the consequences of these decisions. The book provides a set of best practice recommendations for the design, development, and management of greener urban areas. It both explains how GI is being utilised in East and Southeast Asia to address climate change, promote economic prosperity, and support the development of more livable places, and identifies future trends in its use. It is a key resource for any practitioners, students, and academics working in landscape planning and green infrastructure in an Asian context.

Torres, Stacy, At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America. 421 pp. 2025:1 (U. California Pr., US) <725-305>
ISBN 978-0-520-28862-1 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-28869-0 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life. These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a public living room, providing company to ease loneliness and a sympathetic ear to witness the monumental and mundane struggles of late life. Through years of careful observation, Torres peels away the layers of this oft-neglected social world and explores the constellation of relationships and experiences that Western culture often renders invisible or frames as a problem. At Home in the City strikes a realistic balance as it highlights how people find support, flex their resilience, and assert their importance in their communities in old age.

Kaika, Maria / Ruggiero, Luca, Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization. (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change) 264 pp. 2024:12 (U. California Pr., US) <725-309>
ISBN 978-0-520-41007-7 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-41008-4 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Challenging our understanding of land financialization as a recent phenomenon propelled by high finance, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground 150 years of class struggle over land as a catalyst for assembling the global financial constellation. Narrating the close-knit histories of industrial land, industrial elites, and the working class, the authors offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a "lived" process: the outcome of a relentless, socially embodied historical unfolding, in which shifts in land's material, economic, and symbolic roles impact both local everyday lives and global capital flows.