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

Sengupta, Urmi / Nielsen, Kenneth (eds.), The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia: Current Challenges and New Directions. (Cities and the Urban Imperative) 266 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <735-592>
ISBN 978-1-03-244411-6 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-287046-5 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested. This volume explores the politics of urban land in South Asia and the challenges related to their respective urban futures.For most people, land comes at a premium, and as a result conflicts and contestations over land and urban resources are rife in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal, as witnessed in the many struggles of low-income groups and vulnerable or marginalised communities to fight off dispossession or displacement. This book maps current challenges shared across national borders and charts out new directions for future research and land policy. With contributions from emerging and established authors, the volume offers a critical accounting of the situation that exists in urban South Asia, while also critically engaging with the current challenges and future directions for land use and land politics.The book will be useful to students and researchers of public policy, development studies, economics, urban and regional development studies, and sociology as well as to policy makers, real estate professionals, and commercial firms engaged in property market/real estate study in Asia.

Dovbischuk, Tetiana, Urban Green Space Usage and Nature Satisfaction: Across Life Course Phases and Socio-Economic Classes. 82 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <735-656>
ISBN 978-1-032-90098-8 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces. It explores the use of spaces such as parks, waterfronts, wooded areas, and fields among different life course phases and socio-economic classes.Through a detailed analysis of primary data from two major German cities, Cologne and Hamburg, the book examines the availability, use, and satisfaction with urban green spaces and provides insights into the predictors of nature satisfaction in an urban context. The book also combines the subjective assessments of the respondents with objective data. It considers the varying reliance on urban green spaces due to the availability of private green spaces and individual nature relatedness. It provides insights on the needs of different population groups in cities, providing a scientific basis for improving or implementing green space planning approaches.This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, urban studies, public health, environmental studies, and human geography.

Bereitschaft, Bradley (ed.), Equity in the Urban Built Environment. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 272 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-680>
ISBN 978-1-03-263106-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities.Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the design and layout of our cities. The 16 chapters of this book illuminate the ways in which the built environment, including buildings, roads, public spaces, and other infrastructure, shapes our health and prosperity through a complex set of physical and social interactions. It brings together experts from a variety of fields to identify, and suggest workable solutions for, inequities in the spatial distribution of amenities and disamenities and the processes and policies that give rise to these unjust patterns. Blending scholarly knowledge and practical experience, many of these strategies and solutions are presented through the lens of real-world case studies. One key take-away is that the planning of our cities should be a communal effort that properly reflects the needs of all residents. Equity in the built environment can only be realized when people of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, and abilities feel welcome to both shape and enjoy the shared public realm.This book is intended for a wide audience that primarily includes scholars, students, graduate, upper level graduates and professionals in the fields of urban geography, urban planning, landscape architecture, and urban studies. Professionals in urban planning and policy with a desire to advance equity goals will likely appreciate the strategies, recommendations, and best practices discussed within.

レビット、レビットタウン、白人の郊外の夢
Berenson, Edward, Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia. 384 pp. 2025:6 (Yale U. Pr., US) <735-681>
ISBN 978-0-300-25954-4 hard ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought with it gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family suburban home, the repository of many families' long-term wealth and the place where people hope to live out the American Dream. But while the man who did the most to make the automobile a mass commodity-Henry Ford-is well known, few know the story of the man who did the same for the mass-produced suburban house. This book describes the remarkable career of William Levitt, who did more than anyone else to create the modern suburb. In the years following World War II, his Levittown developments provided abundant, cheap, mass-produced housing (he sometimes finished thirty in a day) for veterans and their families who desperately needed places to live. He was a life-changing hero to tens of thousands of people, and a national celebrity in an era when business celebrities were rare. But Levitt also shared Ford's dark side. He refused to allow Black people to buy or rent homes in his developments, doggedly defended this practice against legal challenges, and, emulated by hundreds of later developers, ensured that suburbs nationwide would be-and remain-white enclaves. Historian Edward Berenson tells the story of a key architect of the postwar American lifestyle, his meteoric rise and tragic fall, and the complicated legacy that endures to this day.

Iannone, Catalina, Cities Beyond Crisis: Race, Affect, and Urban Culture in Twenty-First-Century Iberia. 268 pp. 2025:1 (Vanderbilt U. Pr., US) <735-683>
ISBN 978-0-8265-0733-4 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-8265-0732-7 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, identifying how this event catalyzed a protracted period of unraveling and reorganization in the region. Arguing that the affects and effects of the crisis are best understood when embedded within local environments, Cities Beyond Crisis focuses on how textual, visual, and spatial interventions both drove and contested change in two racially diverse, historically marginalized neighborhoods in the capital cities of Spain and Portugal-Madrid's LavapiEs and Lisbon's Mouraria. Through a critical examination of the narratives shaping public perception of these spaces, whether promoting their development and consumption or challenging market-oriented trends, Iannone demonstrates how the stories that stakeholders across the ideological spectrum told about these districts illuminate enduring attachments and aspirations in each nation's relationship to race. By approaching the study of space as a contested and contingent social product, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from both humanistic and social science theories and practices to show how cultural production shapes and is shaped by the built environment.

Levine, Myron A. / Sanders, Heywood T., Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age. 11th ed. 446 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <735-684>
ISBN 978-1-03-227069-2 hard ¥54,131.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00
ISBN 978-1-03-227065-4 paper ¥22,788.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99

Urban Politics brings together the classic and contemporary literature on urban politics and history with today's pressing urban issues.The book's central theme is "power" - going beyond the formal institutions and structures of city and suburban government to explain who defines the urban agenda and who benefits from local services and investments. The book also presents a number of subthemes, including the impact of globalization, the dominant place of economic development concerns in the urban agenda, and the continuing importance of race and poverty in big city and suburban politics. It also places cities in the larger context of state and federal government politics and policies, and discusses the impact of those policies. Urban Politics seeks to engage students with photographs, real-world case studies, and boxed material that employs films, video, television shows, and popular music to illustrate how urban politics "works." Urban Politics has been updated and revised to reflect the complex circumstances of both urban "success stories" and the difficult realities of "cities left behind," and to add new material on concentrated poverty, climate change, and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.The 11th edition of Urban Politics is an ideal introductory text for students of urban, suburban, and regional politics and policy. The book's coverage of contemporary issues, urban bureaucracy, policy analysis, and intergovernmental relations also makes it an effective textbook for classes in urban administration and planning.Support material for this book can be found at: www.routledge.com/9781032270654

Wood, Augustus, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. (Justice, Power, and Politics) 360 pp. 2025:5 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <735-686>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8567-0 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-8568-7 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95