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

Delgado, Melvin, When the Lord's House Closes: Church Repurposing and Urban Community Practice. 2024:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <729-165>
ISBN 978-0-19-776788-7 hard ¥20,473.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Gidwani, Vinay / Goldman, Michael / Upadhya, Carol (eds.), Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru. 280 pp. 2024:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <729-1013>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1735-7 hard ¥22,334.- (税込) US$ 108.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1736-4 paper ¥5,583.- (税込) US$ 27.00

Tracking Bengaluru's dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru's exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure investments have led to land speculation targeting working-class neighborhoods and agricultural land for development. Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its "world-city" transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Moving the spotlight away from the urban elites and "new middle class," this book explores how people caught up in the whirlwinds of change in Bengaluru-from construction laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, and platform delivery workers to small-time property brokers, petty landlords, and local politicians-experience, struggle, aspire, invent, strive, and speculate to make a livable city for themselves. Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, Chronicles of a Global City vividly illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance capital, real estate markets, livelihood struggles, and fraying ecologies in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru. Its anchoring concept, "speculative urbanism," provides a powerful, innovative lens for understanding the risk-laden practices of leveraging land, labor, and resources for the promise of future profit. Contributors: Hemangini Gupta, Pierre Hauser, Priyanka Krishna, Eesha Kunduri, Kaveri Medappa, Usha Rao, Shaheen Shasa, Swathi Shivanand, Vinay K. Sreenivasa.

Fleming, Rob / Roberts, Saglinda H / Isaac, C., Sustainable Design for the Built Environment. 2nd ed. 292 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-1101>
ISBN 978-1-03-251084-2 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-251082-8 paper ¥10,807.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative textbook introduces sustainable design in a clear, concise, easy-to-read format.This new edition includes fully updated exercises and online resources, an increased focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in design, more international examples, perspectives and approaches, enhanced full colour visuals, and additional resources for further study. The book takes the reader deep into the foundations of sustainable design, and creates a holistic and integrative approach addressing the social, cultural, ecological, and aesthetic aspects in addition to the typical performance-driven goals. The first section of the book is thematically structured around the origins, principles, and frameworks of sustainable design, aimed at inspiring a deeper, broader, and more inclusive view of sustainability. The second section examines strategies such as biophilia and biomimicry, adaptation and resilience, health and well-being, including recent developments following the Covid-19 pandemic. The third section examines the application of sustainability principles from the global, urban, district and site, building, and human scale, illustrating how a systems thinking approach allows sustainable design to span varied contexts and multiple scales.This textbook is intended to inspire a new vision for the future that unites human activity with natural processes to form a regenerative, coevolutionary model for sustainable design. Supported by additional resources including additional reading for each chapter and classroom assignments, this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.

Wakefield, Stephanie, Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience. 256 pp. 2025:1 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <729-1127>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1717-3 hard ¥22,334.- (税込) US$ 108.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1718-0 paper ¥5,572.- (税込) US$ 26.95

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate change-driven mutations of urban space and life Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expanding real estate market powered by global surges of people and capital, Miami is an epicenter of the urban Anthropocene and a living laboratory for adaptation to sea level rise. Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure and imaginaries in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Using Miami as a compelling microcosm for understanding the complex interplay between urbanization and environmental upheaval in the twenty-first century, Stephanie Wakefield shows how "aqua-urban futures" are being imagined for the city, from governmental scenario exercises for severe weather events to proposals to transform the city's metropolitan area into an archipelago of islands connected by bridges. She examines the shifts reweaving the fabric of urban life and presents designs that imagine dramatic new ways of living with water. Grounded in the dynamic landscape of Miami but reaching far beyond its shores, Miami in the Anthropocene delves into the broader debates shaping urban thought and practice in the Anthropocene. Focusing on postresilience urban designs, Wakefield illuminates the path toward a future where cities embrace opportunities for evolution rather than merely for survival.

Forough, Mohammadbagher, Transnational Public Spheres: Asian and Western Perspectives on Civic Spaces and Infrastructures Beyond the Nation-State. (Routledge Studies on Think Asia) 208 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-1135>
ISBN 978-1-03-278835-7 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives. The current era is characterised by transnational challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, that cannot be adequately addressed by national public spheres. Public spheres, defined as arenas of collective communication and action, are the cornerstone of any people-centred system of governance. This book puts forward a transnational public sphere theory and focuses on spatial, infrastructural and non-Western perspectives, thus adding to public sphere theory and practice at both national and transnational levels. The author offers a new conceptual construct, 'the right to space', as a way of transnationalising the theory and addressing its efficacy issues. Providing conceptual clarity on the public-private distinction, this book examines the historical roots of the public sphere in both Asia and Europe, establishes the methodological and ontological foundations for a theory of transnational publics, and analyses contemporary empirical instances of transnational publics in both Asia and the West. This transnationalisation is crucial now that authoritarianism is on the rise and democracy is in decline worldwide. A timely addition to the literature, this book will be of interest to researchers in International Relations, Political Science, Political Theory, Sociology, Media and Communication, Cultural and Literary Studies, and Asian Studies.

都市計画における人文学
Krieger, Martin, The Humanities in City Planning: Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality. 208 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-1137>
ISBN 978-1-03-275522-9 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-275521-2 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book by preeminent planning theorist Martin H. Krieger explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. Planning today is dominated by social science, but Kreiger takes a different approach, thinking of city planning in terms of Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality. The chapters explore planners and their role as protagonist in the humanities of literature and history; the inevitability of uncertainty in planning and how to face it; and how to attend to the physical, visual, and aural environment of the city. Through a series of essays, Krieger shows that cities are cultural and meaningful, that they are contingent and so filled with opportunity, and that they are concrete, particular, and encountered. The Humanities in City Planning will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities and planning looking for alternative ways of viewing the city.

Pretzer, Christoph, When Cities Fall: Cultural Reflections of Loss and Lament. (Historical Catastrophe Studies / Historische Katastrophenforschung) 300 pp. 2025:2 (de Gruyter, GW) <729-1138>
ISBN 978-3-11-119964-1 hard ¥22,977.- (税込) EUR 99.95

The fall of a city is not just an incisive event with often catastrophic, long-term, and wide-ranging consequences, but also a moment that captivates the imagination, elicits intense cultural reflections, and is used to draw a dividing line in historical narratives. Since Antiquity the fall of cities has been used to mark historical thresholds, which in some instances originated sprawling mythological, historiographical, and literary traditions, such as those centred on the falls of Troy, Jerusalem or Rome. In pre-modern thinking the framing of the fall of cities in various media plays a crucial role: the stories of their (repeated) falls underpin discourses essential for the negotiation of collective trauma, the attenuation of experiences of loss and disorientation, and the generation of political authority and cultural identity. In May 2023 "When Cities Fall" conference brought together an international group of interdisciplinary researchers working on all aspects of city-fall-narratives in general and city laments in particular. The contributions of this conference are now collated and presented in this volume. They range from Classical Greek political oratory, over Anglo-Saxon poetry, to Pinochet-era Chilean literature.

Safri, Maliha / Pavlovskaya, Marianna / Healy, S. et al., Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. (Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds) 296 pp. 2025:1 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <729-1139>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1601-5 hard ¥23,161.- (税込) US$ 112.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1602-2 paper ¥5,790.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Mapping the transformative effects of America's urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation and mutual support, have long played pivotal but largely invisible roles in fostering shared survival and envisioning alternatives to racial capitalism globally and in the United States. This book maps the thriving existence of these cooperative networks in three differently sized American cities, highlighting their commitment to cooperation, democracy, and inclusion and demonstrating the desire-and the pressing need-to establish alternative foundations for social and economic justice. Collectively authored by four social scientists, Solidarity Cities analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs, including food security, affordable housing, access to fair credit, and employment opportunities. Examining entities such as community gardens, credit unions, cooperatives, and other forms of economic solidarity, the authors highlight how relatively small yet vital interventions into public life can expand into broader movements that help bolster the overall well-being of their surrounding communities. Bringing together insights from geography, political economy, and political science with mapping and spatial analysis methodologies, surveys, and in-depth interviews, Solidarity Cities illuminates the extensive footprints of solidarity economies and the roles they play in communities. The authors show how these initiatives act as bulwarks against gentrification, exploitation, and economic exclusion, helping readers see them as part of the past, present, and future of more livable and just cities. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.