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

都市のマルクス主義の再想像
Biagi, Francesco (ed.), Reimagining Urban Marxisms: Rethinking Thinkers, Texts and Challenges. (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism) 336 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-745>
ISBN 978-1-032-60548-7 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms.Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the 'urban question', such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across the globe. With attention to the manner in which the three axes of class, gender and race play a fundamental role in contemporary social phenomena, it interweaves different issues that are inextricably linked in matters of urban inequality. The book bridges a significant gap between urban studies and Marxists theories by reviving Marx and Engels' ideas in the context of analyzing urban studies in the twenty-first century. The objective is to bring together diverse perspectives and directions of the ongoing debate on the "urban question". Although there are multiple Marxisms and theoretical currents inspired by Marxism that seek to understand the urban and spatial transformations of today, there has been a lack of comprehensive scholarship that systematically brings them together to frame this debate. The goal is to unite the main critical Marxist perspectives on contemporary urban studies.Reimagining Urban Marxisms will therefore appeal to scholars across disciplines with interests in Marxist analyses of contemporary urban and spatial transformations, and the phenomenon of planetary urbanization.

Arefi, Mahyar, Demystifying Informal Urban Design and Planning: Insights from Asia. 304 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-830>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7476-5 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

With more than half of the world's population living in cities, informal settlements, or slums, continue to expand. This book explores the informality-urban design nexus, and asks why formal urban designers and planners have remained largely reluctant to address these challenges facing our cities. What distinguishes the formal vs. informal urban design paradigm? While urban designers are able to identify and address specific problems like walkability, gentrification, or sense of place, informal settlement problems prove inexorably complex, and harder to fathom to begin with. Therefore, seeking to demystify these epistemological ambiguities - while difficult - makes sense. The use of abductive reasoning, regulations, aesthetics, and design epitomise the formal, while informal urban planning and design is characterized by information, assets and adaptation. In support of these thematic differentiations, this book uses case studies to better contextualize and unpack the metaphorical distinctions of the two theoretical entities. Conceptualizing these two schools of thought this way, the book engages urban designers with these debates, and explores how informal settlement residents see themselves, act collectively, care about their settlements, and leverage opportunities.

Rajendran, Lakshmi Priya / Odeleye, N. / Can, A. (eds.), Resilient Cities in the Global South: Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design. (Regions and Cities) 238 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-840>
ISBN 978-1-032-37377-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Post-pandemic cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is crucial for urban society's ability to adapt and evolve on multiple levels. However, in developed countries, increasingly standardised planning and development practices often hinder citizen engagement and participation, which are essential for building resilient cities.This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how diverse social and spatial behaviours within informal urban environments, particularly in developing countries, can provide fresh insights for robust urban planning and development.The book is structured in three parts: 1. North-South Relations - This section explores the global discourse on informality, highlighting its presence in both the Global North and South.2. Grassroots - This part focuses on grassroots initiatives and community-driven resilience within urban informality.3. Institutional Strategies & Professional Alliances - The final section delves into the role of institutions and professional collaborations in shaping urban informality.By presenting a range of perspectives and experiences, the book contributes to a unique Southern framework that positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience. It will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience, including professionals from fields such as sociology, history, environmental psychology, cultural studies, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, and anthropology.

水と共に生きる－南アジアにおける開発とアーバニズム
Rahman, Mohammed Mahbubur / Fatemi, Nawrose (eds.), Living with Water: Development and Urbanism in South Asia. 400 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-915>
ISBN 978-1-032-91064-2 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-041-00481-3 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Living with Water explores the perennial, dynamic relationship between water and the built environment in South Asia. This interdisciplinary survey of the unique urban and ecological landscapes of the region presents a diverse selection of cities and projects, and offers practical, contextual strategies for the design and protection of these sites against emergent impacts of climate change and population growth. Water resources in South Asia are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of global warming. In the many historic urban centres that have grown over time along the rivers and waterfronts of the region, deteriorating water systems and rapid population expansion have contributed to problems such as water insecurity, exposure of built structures to weather damage, floods, and erosion. Case studies drawn from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka illustrate a range of contemporary and traditional approaches to living with water within the ecosystems, floodplains, wetlands, waterfronts, river systems, and water networks of the region. Chapters authored by architects, planners, historians, sociologists, geographers, and environmentalists combine insights into analytical methods and processes of urban planning and development, with critical attention to the importance of cultural heritage, vernacular construction, traditional water systems, and indigenous knowledge in shaping climate-resilient built and natural environments. This context supports resilient ecology and a sustainable approach to building and resource management, offering guidance in the creation of water-sensitive development, integrated urban design, wetlands restoration, and more. Living with Water is an essential read for researchers and professionals in architecture, urban planning, water management, environmental conservation, real estate development, tourism, and local governance, and will appeal to broad range of readers interested in the history, geography, and culture of South Asia.

Jayne, Mark / Siying, Wu / Chenhui, Wu, Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 302 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-321>
ISBN 978-1-032-60100-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Building The City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational thinking. Drawing on these critical resources the authors explore the complexities of migrant's everyday past, present, and future lives. More specifically, they interrogate diverse and heterogeneous connections between work, domestic, and family times and spaces as well as foregrounding new theoretical and empirical terrain regarding consumption, pleasure, leisure, fashioned, sexual identities, and digital lives within and beyond cities.Premised on ethnographic research undertaken in cities across China the authors develop detailed relational comparative dialogue with the most up-to-date international interdisciplinary research.This critically challenging yet engaging and accessible research monograph provides an excellent resource for scholars at all career stages as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in diverse disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, management, organisational and business studies, human geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Rouse, William B., Innovations for Transformation: How Cities Can Reinvent Themselves for Economic Success. 160 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-409>
ISBN 978-1-041-05021-6 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-041-05020-9 paper ¥9,289.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

This book chronicles how four resort cities (Ashville, Aspen, Key West, and Laguna Beach) addressed failing economic situations to reinvent themselves and prosper. The author explores bottom-up reinventions of local community value propositions, often driven by economic forces that require reinvention due to declining or disappearing traditional economic opportunities. The author foregoes broad national policies and focuses on a wide range of types of citizen groups, local institutions, and businesses that coalesce to understand what is happening or has happened to their community. These cities then formulate future aspirations with new value propositions and experiment to determine what works. The investment becomes focused on emergent successes. The author addresses four community ecosystems and a spectrum of contexts -- For example, mountains vs. oceans and venues for entertainment vs. thought leadership. These four ecosystems were reinvented creatively to enable great economic and societal successes. In particular, the energy provided by bottom-up innovation was crucial. The information presented in this book is drawn from two sources -- First, historical accounts of such initiatives are leveraged. Second, and more substantial, are findings synthesized from extensive interviews in Asheville, NC,

Reckien, Diana / Juhola, Sirkku / Haque, Anika Nasra et al., Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities. (Elements in Climate Change and Cities) 75 pp. 2025:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1006>
ISBN 978-1-009-58712-9 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-58711-2 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Climate impacts and risk, within and across cities, are distributed highly unequally. Cities located in low latitudes are more vulnerable to climate risk and impacts than in high latitudes, due to the large proportion of informal settlements relative to the housing stock and more frequent extremes. According to EM-DAT, about 60% of environmental disasters in cities relate to riverine floods. Riverine floods and heatwaves cause about 33% of deaths in cities. However, cold-waves and droughts impact most people in cities (42% and 39% of all people, respectively). Human vulnerability intersects with hazardous, underserved communities. Frequently affected groups include women, single parents, and low-income elderly. Responses to climatic events are conditioned by the informality of social fabric and institutions, and by inequitable distribution of impacts, decision-making, and outcomes. To ensure climate-resilient development, adaptation and mitigation actions must include the broader urban context of informality and equity and justice principles. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Bianchi, Iolanda, Barcelona: Urban Commons and Local State Assemblages. (Built Environment City Studies) 148 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <744-1024>
ISBN 978-1-032-50076-8 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons - understood as a repertoire of collective action that fosters a politics of antagonism - and the local state. It critiques the dominant neo-institutionalist and neo-Marxist perspectives for their deterministic and siloed views, as well as their insufficient attention to the municipal scale. The book proposes a more nuanced, urban-based, outcome-oriented approach rooted in assemblage theory.The analysis addresses a central question: can urban commons-local state assemblages benefit the politics of urban commons? The book argues that they can, provided they form rhizomatic assemblages. These allow urban commons to retain their self-governing autonomy, even as they lose some of their material autonomy. Conversely, it shows that assemblages can also take arborescent forms, allowing the local state to undermine the self-governing autonomy of the urban commons.Focusing on Barcelona, the book examines how rhizomatic and arborescent assemblages are constructed, as well as the strategies that urban commons can undertake to build rhizomatic assemblages. This work is essential for scholars, policy-makers and activists interested in urban governance, commons theory and transformative politics. It provides both theoretical insights and practical tools for harnessing the dynamics of the urban commons and the local state to drive meaningful socio-political change.

Gunia, Nadege / Mignot, Jean-Pierre et al. (coord.), Development and the Sustainable City: The Limits of a Technical Approach. (Architecture, Urban Planning and Development. Integrated Environment Management and Resilience) 304 pp. 2025:2 (Wiley-ISTE, UK) <744-1025>
ISBN 978-1-78945-184-9 hard ¥35,392.- (税込) US$ 165.00

Lewis, Nigel C., Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development. 440 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1027>
ISBN 978-1-032-40495-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-40496-7 paper ¥11,823.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural, and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities. Individual chapters address different sets and typologies of global cities to analyse their comparative evolution and standing today. The separate Parts and individual Chapters have been grouped around 125 different established, planned, and emerging cities and analysed according to different typologies and thematic categories, that comprise: historic cities, early trading cities, planned cities, emerging global cities, mega cities, and megalopolitan agglomerations. These span five continents-including the industrial cities of Chicago and Manchester; new capitals such as Brasilia and New Delhi; innovative cities such as Singapore and Tel Aviv; and mega cities such as Mexico City. The book is fully illustrated throughout with modern and historical maps, which enables visualisation of the forces that have shaped ongoing development of these major global cities. This is an essential book for students and professionals in urban design and planning, administrators, economists, designers, and developers.

Lu, Isabel Fangyi, Reassembling Digital Placemaking: Participation and Politics. (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics) 150 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-1028>
ISBN 978-1-032-52704-8 hard ¥39,424.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy. It explores the participatory practices of digital placemaking and their implications on blurring formal and informal boundaries of decision-making and urban politics.Drawing on examples from Australia, China and Taiwan, the book examines how contemporary cities are witnessing an era when digitality becomes a mode of placemaking and participation becomes an urban condition. Such developments manifest as urban activism, creative branding, tech placemaking and digital governance that trigger changes in urban engagement policies. This book views digital placemaking through an assemblage lens to demonstrate how it can be a relational site of contentions and collaborations among civil society, businesses and governments without observance of strict boundaries. Contrary to an often binary and zero-sum reading of urban politics, this book advocates for a tripartite assemblage model of urban politics that is neither hierarchical nor deterministic. This book proposes an ouroboros model that conceptually anchors digital placemaking studies to the nexus of urban institutions and digital technologies, proposing a systematic approach to comprehending the contentions and collaborations among community, industry and government. It reconceptualises urban politics as a relational process of nuances, contingency and complexity in flux. Ultimately, the book develops the notion of sociotechnical natality to counter the myth of tech inevitability and instil a thesis of hope and change.This book will interest researchers, policymakers and professionals in urban studies, media studies, cultural studies, urban communication, creative placemaking, community engagement, urban advocacy and urban governance.

Morley, Ian, The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning. (Elements in Global Urban History) 98 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1029>
ISBN 978-1-009-59876-7 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-44323-4 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

During the past one hundred or so years, urbanists have composed grand narratives regarding the development of urban design and the international dissemination of planning models. Yet, building upon this historiography, whilst the transnational dimension of modern city planning has centred itself upon the diffusion of the British garden city, far less attention has been put upon the global reach of the American City Beautiful. Owing to the ethnocentricity of American planning history literature, thus, the chronicle of the City Beautiful has anchored itself, literally and figuratively, to the North American continent. Yet, in truth, grand American-inspired plans were implemented throughout the world; indeed, they were carried out long after the City Beautiful's popularity had waned in North America, and they were executed under a variety of cultural and political conditions.

Saaristo, Saila-Maria, Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy) 251 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-1034>
ISBN 978-90-04-67801-9 hard ¥31,333.- (税込) EUR 135.00

Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations, and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance.