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

Landau-Donnelly, Friederike / Carlsson, Hanna et al. (eds.), Reflecting on Practices: New Directions for Spatial Theories. 256 pp. 2024:1 (Agenda Pub., UK) <730-799>
ISBN 978-1-78821-574-9 paper ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

This collection of essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. The team of contributors - which includes human geographers, urban planners and environmental scientists - expose various epistemological, ontological and methodological challenges to pin down what practices "are". The essays showcase how practice theory can help spatial scientists generate new and future-oriented insights on debates such as mobility, relationality, and forms of critical spatial practice. In this way, the book reinforces a specifically geographic and spatial account that is needed for the development of practice theory while also shining new light on current debates within practice theory on power, politics and space. The book positions practices as the point of departure to study and conceptualize socio-spatial life.

Menkhoff, Thomas / Kan, Siew Ning et al. (eds.), Visions for The Future: Towards More Vibrant, Sustainable and Smart Cities. 336 pp. 2024:7 (World Scientific, SI) <730-801>
ISBN 978-981-12-9309-2 hard ¥25,440.- (税込) US$ 118.00

With reference to Singapore's smart urban initiatives, this book provides insights into how urban planning, digital technology and sustainability issues are impacting people and businesses.The chapters are loosely structured with regards to key dimensions of smart cities such as urban innovation spaces; open innovation ecosystems; smart manufacturing; undergraduate education with regards to A.I. readiness, gamified leadership & team-building skills, and digital sustainability; ESG, environmental handprint, workplace sustainability and climate resilience; pillars of successful aging & inclusiveness; and smart city management challenges.How does Singapore develop vibrant urban innovation spaces? In what ways can living labs create sustainable impact? How can SMEs benefit from the adoption of Industry 4.0? What is the role of chatbots in making undergraduate students 'AI-ready'? How does gamification help learners to acquire leadership and team-building skills? Why is digital sustainability important and how can educators sensitize youths toward cultivating more sustainable ways of living? What is the business case for ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) stewardship? How to steer Singapore's built environment towards a sustainable future? How to connect companies and help them to combat climate change by regenerating our planet? How to induct new employees to an organization and acclimatize them to the company's culture of sustainability, job roles and workplace sustainability? How to enable smart(er) aging? What is the future of inclusive smart cities? What are some of the opportunities for more theory-based, empirical research on smart city management challenges from a purpose-driven business perspective linked to human betterment? These questions and more are addressed in this book.Visions for the Future is a complementary reading resource suitable for anyone interested in understanding how the concept of Smart Cities can improve lives and livelihoods for all in a sustainable manner - from undergraduate and graduate students to smart city stakeholders in business and society as well as educators and municipal leaders.

Moisio, Sami / Rossi, Ugo, The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly. (Urban Worlds) 192 pp. 2024:7 (Agenda Pub., UK) <730-802>
ISBN 978-1-78821-450-6 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78821-451-3 paper ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of this power. In The Urban Field, Moisio and Rossi reveal an urban monopoly capitalism supported by the "corporatized state". They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology in four key sites: labour, human capital, startups and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that, ultimately, the urban field is a constitutively political construct that can be enacted in a different way, no longer as a value-extraction machine but as a collective endeavour aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.

Rocco, Roberto / Silvestre, Gabriel (eds.), Insurgent Planning Practice. (Urban Worlds) 224 pp. 2024:4 (Agenda Pub., UK) <730-804>
ISBN 978-1-78821-676-0 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into those daily practices to answer: What does insurgent planning practice look like in practice? How are radical planners coping with traditional, technocratic planning as practised in most places around the world? And what do they do to advance an agenda of democratisation and the right to the city, counteracting neoliberal forms of governance? Chapters draw on conversations with planners in several cities around the world, cataloguing insurgent experiences that challenge the status quo of contemporary market-based, exclusionary city-making. Throughout, cross-cutting issues such as gender, race and class are explored to consider ways in which insurgent planners bring diversity into planning.

Liu, Ran, Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China: New Housing Opportunities for Migrant Workers. 326 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <730-649>
ISBN 978-3-031-61663-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing's urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre's notion of the "right to the city" as a largely property-based concept that falls within the city's hybrid tenure matrix of varying degrees of tenure security and formality that is undergoing entrepreneurialization or gentrification. This is another highly valuable contribution to China studies from the geographical perspective of the "territorial politics" at play in the process of urban village redevelopment, which has fostered a new propertied landowning class as winners, while moving low-wage migrants. The book takes the reader on a fascinating journey from peri-urban villages to IT worker villages to artists' villages, revealing a restless landscape of urbanism and state-centered governance, as well as bottom-up counterplots. The fieldwork explores the contradictions of urban village redevelopment in Beijing. On the one hand, it is state-dominated and yet creates new housing opportunities for migrants; on the other, it disrupts old orders but also encourages new forms of grassroots alliances. The empirical studies of Beijing's urban villages enrich Henry Lefebvre's discourse on "planetary urbanisation," Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's notion of the "rhizome," and Elinor Ostrom's ideas on the wise management of the "commons."

Cihan, Oezlem, Spatial Encounters and Togetherness in the Metropolis: The Metrobuses of Istanbul. (Identities and Modernities in Europe) 292 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-700>
ISBN 978-3-031-60089-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book analyzes Istanbul's bus rapid transit, the metrobus, as an encountering space to unfold the perception and practice of togetherness. Based on field research with regular metrobus passengers, the book presents a layered analysis between everyday life, everyday mobility, and togetherness to emphasize the metropolitan impact on the socio-spatial experience and subjectification. By articulating Lefebvrian social space in a metropolitan context, the book discusses that Istanbul's spatially and temporally framed everydayness leads inhabitants to the need for bus rapid transit. On the other hand, the need for the metrobus produces transit modes of experience in regulars' socio-spatial relation and subjectification. As a result, encountering and being with the unfamiliar and diverse others undertake the framed typologies of the first two layers and produce a dissolving essence in the idea and practice of togetherness in Istanbul.

都市再考
Bhan, Gautam / Keith, Michael / Parnell, Susan et al., Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition. 200 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-795>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6560-3 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6561-0 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95

In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become - perhaps more than ever - central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been more fragmented among different silos of expertise, diverse genres of scholarship, and widening chasms between theory and practice. How can we do better? Cities Rethought suggests that we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them. To this end, it offers the contours of a new urban disposition. This disposition, articulated through its normative, analytical, and operational elements, offers an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and citizens alike to approach the complexity of cities anew, and find ways to rethink both scholarly analyses as well as modes of practice. Written collectively for a wide audience, the text draws from cities across the global north and south, speaks across diverse genres of ideas, and reflects on the lived experience of the authors as both researchers and practitioners. It is an essential text for anyone committed to knowing their own cities as well as finding ways to meaningfully intervene in them.

欧州における都市化－過去の発展と持続可能な将来への経路
Evers, David / Katuric, Ivana / van der Wouden, Ries, Urbanization in Europe: Past Developments and Pathways to a Sustainable Future. (Sustainable Urban Futures) 157 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-797>
ISBN 978-3-031-62260-1 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book comes at an opportune time, with 'land take' high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe became urbanized between 2000 and 2018, over eight times that which changed back to agriculture or nature. This book seeks to explain this development and offer suggestions on how to control it, drawing on the ESPON Sustainable Urbanization and land-use Practices in European Regions (SUPER) project. It presents up-to-date analyses on urbanization rates (land take) as well as densities and morphology (sprawl). It also discusses the impact of spatial planning instruments and other public-sector interventions. Finally, the book peers into the future by drawing up urbanization scenarios - compact, polycentric, and diffuse - for 2050, and reflects on their sustainability. It concludes with the encouraging message that policy can make a positive difference.

Hein, Carola / Bartlomiejski, R. / Kowalewski, M. (eds.), Hustle and Bustle: The Vibrant Cultures of Port Cities. (International Studies in Maritime Sociology 3) 368 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <730-798>
ISBN 978-90-04-71116-7 hard ¥36,487.- (税込) EUR 155.00

Hustle and Bustle explores the movements, sites, sounds, and smells unique to port cities, and to the constant activity associated with the shipping and trade, migration, and transport that characterizes the spaces of port cities during day and night. Detailed case studies with a focus on European examples, from multidisciplinary perspectives, provide new approaches to reading port cities. The authors explore perspectives from planning to understand these unique conditions of port cities and their spatial, social and cultural conditions, and to inform new policies, plans, designs that acknowledge both the specific conditions of transshipment and associated nuisances of sound and smell, and of air and water pollution. Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartlomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Slawomir Iwasiow, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozlowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.

Piatkowski, Dan, Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future. 244 pp. 2024:7 (Island Pr., US) <730-279>
ISBN 978-1-64283-307-2 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

It took an oil crisis in the 1970s for the Dutch to realise that they simply couldn?t afford to live without bicycles, and today the Dutch lead the world in urban cycling. Fifty years later, another crisis, the pandemic, has led to a boom in bicycling and a radical rethinking of the future of urban mobility, demonstrating the possibility of a car-free urban future. The pandemic "bikeboom" is one of the very few bright spots in an otherwise terrible time - and an opportunity we cannot waste. In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the best tool that we have to improve our cities. The car-free urban futur, where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by, may be less bike-centric than we think. But bikes are a crucial first step to getting us out of cars. Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes. Piatkowski offers a vision for the car-free urban future that so many are trying to create, with no shortage of pragmatic lessons to get there. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes, with electric assistance, are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities. Bicycle City brings together the latest research with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world to show readers how to harness the post-pandemic bikeboom. Piatkowski illustrates how the future of bicycling will facilitate the necessary urban transitions to mitigate the impending climate crisis and support just and equitable transport systems.