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

Rahman, Muhammad Sayadur / Akter, Shamima, Mobilizing Financial Resources of Urban Local Government in Bangladesh. 222 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-764>
ISBN 978-981-9628-55-1 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book explains the dynamics of revenue generation and allocation reality of city corporations in Bangladesh. It explores the state of five consecutive years of revenue generation and expenditure allocations of Dhaka North City Corporation and Gazipur City Corporation along with a discussion of to what extent the City Corporation is allowed to enjoy fiscal autonomy through the Local Government (City Corporation) Act of 2009 to generate and manage its local resources. It also finds out the institutional blocks/challenges that the city corporation faces in the process of revenue generation and mobilization, even with the existence of a solid legislative foundation. Central to the book's focus is the resource mobilizing scenario (generation and allocation of revenue) of City Corporation over the past five consecutive years. It suggests some approaches that will serve as valuable resources for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to take steps for strengthening the finance base of urban local government through revisiting and redefining revenue generation and allocation strategies.

De Boeck, Filip / Baloji, Sammy, Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds. 330 pp. 2025:3 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <745-787>
ISBN 978-94-6270-455-8 paper ¥15,028.- (税込) EUR 49.50

An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today.Focusing upon the 'urban now', a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living - and living together - in Congo's urban worlds today.The authors, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Sammy Baloji, take the reader on a tour of specific urban sites in Kinshasa and beyond. In their detailed analysis these sites emerge as suturing points in which the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored.Reprint of Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds, Filip De Boeck, Sammy Baloji (Autograph 2016)Look inside and read the preface >

Connolly, Mark, Creativity in Education, Urban and Cultural Policy: A Critique of a Contemporary Keyword. 234 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-838>
ISBN 978-3-031-82797-6 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book critiques creativity as a 'keyword' in contemporary society. This is illustrated through an analysis of the uses of creativity within cultural, urban and educational policy. While there have been critiques and debates of the uses of creativity within these fields, the author innovatively bridges these disciplines by providing both an overview of the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of these debates and illustration of how they manifest in these distinct, yet interrelated policy spheres. Drawing on Raymond Williams' theory of culture as social communication and keyword approach, the book illustrates how the creative turn in contemporary policy can divert attention from structural analysis and provide a rhetorical gloss for inequitable social policies. It will appeal to academics, students and practitioners involved in education, cultural and urban studies.

Kilb, Rainer (ed.), Social Cohesion and Diversity in Urban Neighborhoods: Contradictions - Discussion - Implementation Procedures. 260 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-843>
ISBN 978-3-658-47461-4 hard ¥23,206.- (税込) EUR 99.99

In the current urban development debate, the vision of a diverse urban neighborhood is often linked with social cohesion as a target aspect of favorable community development. This initially euphemistic connection is in need of explanation, as valid empirical findings suggest that with increasing socio-economic and socio-cultural differentiation, the probability of conflict becomes more pronounced, and social cohesion is likely to decrease. Nevertheless, this connection should be maintained, as social science findings on social polarization and segregation, social segmentation, and fragmentation indicate that urban spatial structures should be designed in such a way that social diversity among residents not only coexists but can also become cooperatively action-oriented within the framework of a community. The resulting conflicts of interest can, in their constructive version, serve as impulses for democratic understanding and decision-making. However, this requires integrative and manageable components, which a well-planned urban neighborhood can provide more effectively than urban sprawl or additive high-density residential silos developed solely for economic yield. How a diverse neighborhood could be planned, designed, implemented, and supported in its community-building process is illustrated and reflected upon using the example of a new neighborhood emerging in Mannheim.

Marinic, Gregory / Meninato, Pablo (eds.), About Streets: Perspectives on Urbanism, Architecture, and Placemaking. 784 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-844>
ISBN 978-3-031-84230-6 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space. While 'the street' is commonly associated with urban form or the metropolitan context of social dynamics and design practices, this interdisciplinary anthology highlights that urban design challenges are global, multidimensional, and transcalar. This critical survey of the city collects a broad scope of practices and phenomena in urbanism, architecture, activism, and participatory design. Individual chapters examine the histories, theories, geographies, architecture, and design of streets offering essential reading for scholars, professionals, students, and enthusiasts of urbanism, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, and the arts. Over 50 chapters, authored by an international and diverse group of leading academics, theorists, historians, and practitioners, expand the discourse on streets and public space.

D.デッラ・ポルタ他編　多様な危機の時代における連帯の枠組－欧州の都市における社会運動－
Pajnik, Mojca / Schwiertz, H. / della Porta, D. et al. (eds.), Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises: Social Movements across European Cities. (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology) 190 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-845>
ISBN 978-3-031-82562-0 hard ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book explores how polycrises not only generate new forms of inequality and social exclusion but also inspire new political activism, solidarity, and citizenship. It examines how social movement organizations frame their responses to exclusionary policies and regimes, and sheds light on their strategies for mobilization. By focusing on contemporary movements and their framing of social issues in times of crisis, the book offers valuable insights into social movement studies, urban studies, political communication, and frame analysis. It also engages with broader theoretical and public discussions on solidarity and citizenship. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in social movements, political struggles, and fields such as migration, housing, and care.

Sadoux, Stephane / Vincent, Marie-Pierre et al. (eds.), Gentrification and the Media: Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change. (Cities and Cultures) 282 pp. 2025:3 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-848>
ISBN 978-94-6372-099-1 hard ¥31,820.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00

Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who advocate or resist gentrification can be heard. How can this profusion of content be examined? What methods can be used to critically address the role of the media in constructing and propagating discourses on gentrification? Central to this book is the idea that new research should engage with the theoretical and methodological issues that emerge when media products are used as a corpus to study gentrification. This edited volume considers a range of means that are used to shape and publicize representations: contributions investigate printed and online newspapers, websites, blogs, television programmes and social media. It also aims to highlight the diversity of players who produce and disseminate media discourses on gentrification.

Jerrems, Ari, The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain. (Spaces of Peace, Security and Development) 208 pp. 2025:9 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <745-664>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4329-1 hard ¥22,528.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us about the current political conjuncture and interrogates the possibilities it offers for imagining new, and more just, forms of political community. The book traces the emergence of contemporary forms of neighbouring through social formations and moments of crisis in Spain. Its analysis provides insights into how neighbouring has been envisaged and contested. It reveals both changing conceptions of space and community while underlining how previous conflicts reverberate in the physical landscape, ideas and memories which inform contemporary political interventions.

Gong, Weila, Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. (Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics) 168 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <745-731>
ISBN 978-0-19-775742-0 hard ¥21,235.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Hon, Tze-ki / Chan, Ying-kit (eds.), The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War. (Asian Cities) 396 pp. 2025:4 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-735>
ISBN 978-94-6372-248-3 hard ¥39,987.- (税込) GB￡ 142.00

This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities-Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei-during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the imagery presented in their filmscapes, and the perceptions of their inhabitants, as reflected in fiction and films that portrayed urban life and the experiences of ordinary people. The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War explores both the shared characteristics of these cities as frontiers in the bipolar global system (divided between Communism and the Free World) and their distinctive features as unique spaces shaped by their own meanings and opportunities.

Pasquariello Mariano, Karina L. / Nitsch Bressan, R. et al., Liquid Regionalism in the Americas: An Analysis of Contemporary Regional Developments. (United Nations University Series on Regionalism 29) 157 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <745-211>
ISBN 978-3-031-83798-2 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book develops a comprehensive analysis of contemporary regionalism in the Americas, which the authors characterise as Liquid Regionalism, given its unstable, flexible and loose characteristics. It innovates by introducing a new concept to assess regional initiatives in the American continents, contributing to Latin American and comparative regionalism research agendas. The book analyses major regional projects in the Americas and develops these into a novel typology of consultation, cooperation and integration. This typology helps explain the level of commitments and institutional depth of regional initiatives across the continent. The book is for scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students interested in the regional and political dynamics of the Americas across the social sciences, including international relations, political science, sociology, international political economy, international trade, and history.

文化・社会地理学必携
Winders, Jamie (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography. (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography) 608 pp. 2025:6 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <745-213>
ISBN 978-1-119-63424-9 hard ¥41,827.- (税込) US$ 195.00

Addresses both social and cultural geography in a single volume, authored and edited by leading authorities in the fields The Companion to Social and Cultural Geography provides reliable and up-to-date coverage of both foundational topics and emerging themes within two vibrant and increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography. Building upon the Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, editors Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders offer an expertly curated collection of original essays with special emphasis on early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South. Organized thematically, the Companion opens with a series of "Global Dispatches" from cultural and social geographers working in different disciplines and locations, followed by explorations of key concepts in social and cultural geography such as identity, belonging, solidarity, inequalities, and intersectional geographies. Subsequent chapters examine a wide range of cultural and social geographies, including creativity, technologies, science, nature, memory, tourism, migration, labor, and religion. Throughout the Companion, authors share fresh insights into the racial reckonings of late, ongoing issues related to climate change, the consequences of COVID-19, and more. Across its 46 chapters, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography: Examines how approaches to human-environment dynamics in social and cultural geography help shed light on current challengesCovers critical topics such as justice, protest, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, genders, class, race, and sexualitiesEmphasizes the value of a geographic perspective to understanding social and cultural dynamicsDiscusses how geography has confronted its deep connections to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacyAddresses a range of emerging and established themes, including queer and transgender geographies, Black geographies, animal geographies, and cultural geographies of statesIncorporates a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, such as interviews, conversations, short essays, autobiography, and autoethnography Accessible, authoritative, and highly relevant to today's students, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on social or cultural geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.

Williams, Richard J., The Expressway World. 240 pp. 2025:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <745-218>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6010-3 hard ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly crumbling into the ground. How did we build the expressway world in the first place? And what are we going to do now with it now? This eye-opening book explores these questions partly through the great expressway abolitions of recent years, such as Boston's Central Artery (buried and covered by a park) and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon (replaced with an artificial river). But the book also uncovers the hidden stories of expressways that have become weird attractions in their own right, from London's Westway to Sao Paulo's Minhocao, celebrated in art and literature. Above all, the book proposes, counterintuitively, that we find ways to live with the expressway world and to adapt it to a different future, inspired by the many examples where people have already reinvented this challenging legacy on their own terms. Engaging with case studies across the world and recent thinking in the environmental humanities and architectural theory, this is a thought-provoking invitation to reconsider the most maligned structures of the recent urban past.