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

Cheshmehzangi, Ali, Urban Innovation and Sustainability: ICT-based Interventions in Hainan, China. (Urban Sustainability) 174 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <751-808>
ISBN 978-981-9663-69-9 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is a collection of context-specific ICT-based interventions to achieve sustainability from various perspectives or dimensions. The book is based on case study examples in the strategic context of Hainan, South China. Five ICT-based pilot studies were conducted, surveyed, and analysed in 2021 and 2022. The studies explore impacts on four main sustainability dimensions of environmental, social, economic, and institutional. Several ICT-based interventions are suggested to enhance environmental protection, promote health and support in elderly communities, augment social media for place promotion, create online opportunities for local markets, and help boost local tourism industries. Urban Innovation and Sustainability is an attempt to highlight the positive side of ICT-based interventions in cities and communities. We also need to note the negative side of ICTs, which are partly covered in the case study examples. However, this book focuses on case study pilot examples to promote the nexus between innovation and sustainability. It is essential to explore opportunities that could later be scaled up, transform practices, and help develop context-specific policies. In essence, paradigm shifts, infrastructural development, and human-centric development are necessary. This book's findings interest scholars/researchers, practitioners, and authorities in various disciplines of urbanism, urban/human geography, urban studies, planning, innovation, and sustainability.

Cermeno, Helena, Access to the City: Governing Housing, Services, and Urban In/Exclusion in Amritsar and Lahore. (Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft) 340 pp. 2025:7 (Springer VS, GW) <751-843>
ISBN 978-3-658-48227-5 paper ¥23,976.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This research focuses on Punjab, across the India-Pakistan border, specifically on the cities of Amritsar and Lahore. Their proximity, shared colonial past, socio-cultural ties, and entangled urban heritage offer a unique setting for comparative research on postcolonial urban governance and transformation. The book examines how governance practices shape urban dwellers' access to housing and services in specific neighbourhoods and contribute to the (re)production of socio-spatial in/exclusion. Rather than relying on a property rights lens, it adopts and expands Access Theory, conceptualising access as the ability to derive benefits from material, institutional, and symbolic resources. This lens foregrounds governance mechanisms and power relations that enable, control, and maintain access over time. Case studies in Amritsar and Lahore engage with theoretical mergers-such as access assemblages, evolutionary governance, and city\scapes-to explore neglected dimensions of urban processes, including human/non-human interfaces and socio-material infrastructures. By unraveling contestations over access, the research traces evolving governance arrangements and dependencies. While grounded in these two cities, the findings contribute to broader debates on postcolonial and South(east)ern urbanism, especially in border regions.

Dougherty, James / Bohl, Charles C., The Art of the New Urbanism. Volume 1: (1980 - 2010). 304 pp. 2025:6 (Wiley, US) <751-944>
ISBN 978-1-394-35420-7 hard ¥12,463.- (税込) US$ 59.95

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual communication that enable professionals, elected officials and citizens from all walks of life to engage in designing their neighborhoods and communities. While created as means to an end, these visualizations are often compelling artworks in their own right. The Art of the New Urbanism features the first-ever, comprehensive collection of New Urbanist artworks, with more than 200 selected works produced by more than 100 practitioners and firms. The collected works include plans, renderings of buildings, streetscapes and gathering places, studies of precedents, and photographs of built projects. This book includes seminal material from the early history of the movement that has inspired generations of community building professionals, as well as a wide variety of hand-drawn and digital works that represent methods used today. Through their commentaries on each work, designers share the place making principles visualized through their plans and renderings and how their work responded to the public process. The Art of the New Urbanism contributors include: Joseph Altuna???Andres Duany?????Dana P. Little???Peter Richards ARCAS Paris???Edward Erfurt?????Jeffrey Loman???Robin Riley Jonathan Arnold??Manuel Fernandez-Noval?Tom Low????Chris Ritter Eusebio Azcue???Steven Fett??????Michael McCann??Joshua J. Rivera Charles Barrett???Jennifer Garcia???Scott Merrill????Abel Rodriguez Marcos Bastian???Kenneth Garcia???John Miki????David Rodriguez Drew Bowman???Mark Garzon????Elizabeth Moule???Clay Rokicki Peter Calthorpe???Andrew Georgiadis??Steve Mouzon???SCENESIS PICTURES Brian Canin????Ernesto Gloria????John Moynahan???David M. Schwarz David Carrico????Bonnie Gonzalez???Juan Mullerat???Robert Scott Christopher Carrigan? Jennifer Griffin???Peter Musty???Jennifer Settle Juan A. Caruncho???John Griffin????Thai Nguyen???Shailendra Singh Eduardo Castillo???Arti Harchekar????Anne Marie Noll???Joe Skibba Marice Chael???Peter Harmatuck???Colleen O'Keeffe???Daniel Solomon Dede Christopher???Seth Harry????Lew Oliver?????Sandy Sorlien Anthony Cissell???Xiaojian He????Dan Osborne????Christian Sottile Craig Clements???Brian Hendrickson???Paul Ostergaard??Kristen Sparenborg Andrew Cogar???Steve Hinds????Eric Osth??????Lucien Steil David Colgan???Troy Homenchuk???Daniel Parolek???Robert A.M. Stern Daniel W. Cook???C.J. Howard????Karen Parolek???Dhiru A. Thadani Chad Cooper???Randall Imai????Stefan Pellegrini???John Torti Jaime Correa???Christopher Janson??Christopher M. Pizzi??Erick Valle Cindy Cox???Joseph Kabriel????Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk??Estela Valle David R. Csont???Peter Katz????Chris Podstawski???David VanGroningen dbox??????Brian Kelly????Stefanos Polyzoides???Max Von Trott Lohren Ray Deeg?Kevin Klinkenberg???Evan Posley???James Wassell Bill Dennis????Joseph Kohl???Asa Prentice????Anthony Way Harry Dodson???Leon Krier???Russell Preston???Vladislav Yeliseyev James Dougherty?Matthew Lambert??Steve Price????JJ Zanetta Victor Dover???Jacob Lindsey??Ian Rasmussen????Art Zendarski

Morgan Parmett, Helen, Stadium City: Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States. (Studies in Sports Media) 304 pp. 2025:9 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <751-945>
ISBN 978-0-252-04673-5 hard ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08883-4 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Understanding the recent history and multifaceted impact of sports stadiums A new sports stadium has an outsized impact on a city's landscape and image of itself. Each stadium also plays a central role in media institutions, technologies, and culture as a catalyst for urban change and flashy neighborhood anchor, cornerstone of regional identity and purveyor of multimedia experiences. Helen Morgan Parmett analyzes sports stadiums in Atlanta, Seattle, and Minneapolis to demonstrate the role that media institutions, technologies, and culture play in sports and examine their impact on the urban landscape. These interconnected factors impact struggles over city space, identity, and urban governing. As Morgan Parmett shows, stadiums exist as more than just buildings and sporting places. They are central nodes in the city that connect, disconnect, and distribute resources, people, information, and, ultimately, power. Morgan Parmett demonstrates how the "sportification" of place is influenced by the specific histories, geography, and sporting cultures of a city while explaining their relationship to broader forces at work in media, sport, and urbanism. Original and incisive, Stadium City offers a beyond-the-playing-field analysis of sports stadiums and their impact on our cities and our lives.

Swenson, Sara Ann, Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam. (AAR Academy) 256 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <751-204>
ISBN 978-0-19-781186-3 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Buddhists in Vietnam are meeting humanitarian needs by popularizing charity. Vietnam's rapid urbanization has intensified social service demands while straining public infrastructure. In response, charity volunteers are building roads, subsidizing medicine, and giving away food. Near Light We Shine draws on two years of ethnographic research conducted in Ho Chi Minh City to analyse why and how people join these grassroots movements. Volunteers adapt practices from Vietnam's dominant religion--Buddhism--to attract donors and advocate for different programming styles. However, there can also be clashes over the ultimate purpose of philanthropy. Volunteers approach both Buddhism and altruism in different ways depending on their personal values and demographic communities. These communities include low-income day laborers, elderly women, Buddhist nuns, urban migrants, college students, and queer men. Volunteers promote altruism by citing the proverb, "What is near ink, darkens; what is near light, shines." They use this axiom to distinguish themselves as good people "with heart" [co tam], whose charities are more caring and ethical than other organizations. Disputes over who practices true charity are rooted in different phenomenological and ontological experiences of how altruism influences the world. Volunteers promote distinct Buddhist cosmologies that are traditional, pro-socialist, sceptical, queer, modern, scientific, magical, and often at odds with one another. Altogether, people draw on Buddhism as an adaptable resource to build moral communities and transform the world. Near Light We Shine provides unprecedented insights into how Buddhism functions as a highly adaptable tool for people to build moral communities in Southeast Asia.