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

Cody, Robert / Amoia, Angela, Alvar Aalto and Urban Design. 290 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-901>
ISBN 978-1-032-77939-3 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-77936-2 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aalto's regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in which he incorporated sustainability, resiliency, energy, and health, and examines how contemporary architects and planners can learn from this approach for the betterment of 21st century urban design and our future cities.The Alvar Aalto Atelier planned and promoted regional development that combined ecological features, considered density, and offered a framework for informality, including flexible, adaptable infrastructures, with physical plans integrating communities with nature. These plans were largely sub-urban and contained vital lessons on how to deal with sprawl, traffic, landscape, energy, labor, and industry. This book analyses letters, writings, and drawings not seen outside the Alvar Aalto foundation, to review alternative ways to examine sub-urban landscapes and urban typologies, through sustainability, ecology and use of digital technologies.This is an essential read for all those interested in the urban design work of Alvar Aalto. Written in an accessible way for those new to the work of Aalto, Architecture and Urban Design students of all levels will also find this a helpful guide on ecologically and socially responsible design.

日常生活と都市研究－21世紀へ向けてルフェーヴルとともに動く
Knierbein, Sabine, Everyday Life and Urban Studies: Moving With Lefebvre Towards the 21st Century. 304 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-905>
ISBN 978-1-032-82857-2 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-82856-5 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre's intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappreciated in urban studies. This book seeks to re-integrate Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life into studies of urbanization. Starting in the 1920s, the book realigns historical insights with contemporary urban phenomena to uncover patterns of capitalist urbanization. By showing the relevance of grasping the minutiae of everyday life to understanding cities, the urban and urbanization today; everyday life, space, and philosophy are brought back in tension. This work combines analytical-methodological exploration, pedagogic mission, and theoretical advances to carve out an everyday-theory-based approach to urban studies situated at the interface of the spatial arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. This book examines the transformative potential that lies hidden in everyday life thereby unravelling a way to nurture hope amid unsettled urban conditions.The book is essential for students, faculty, and researchers in the fields of urban studies, city planning, urban design, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, and political science.

Preston, Valerie / Shields, John / Bedard, Tara (eds.), Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance) 288 pp. 2025:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <752-907>
ISBN 978-0-228-02607-5 paper ¥8,437.- (税込) US$ 39.95

As Canada takes stock of its immigration programs, the factors that promote successful settlement have taken centre stage - for researchers, service providers, policymakers, and for the migrants themselves.Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience explores the conditions and supports that help international migrants thrive, not just survive. Focusing on resilience, chapters examine how immigration status and family dynamics shape migrants' agency and their responses to the inevitable challenges of building new lives. They draw attention to the issues created by societal constructs, while highlighting the resources from social institutions of all types: governmental, professional, educational, and faith-based. Emphasizing the experiences of structurally oppressed migrant groups, contributors note the varied ways that capitalism, as well as class, gender, and race, can contribute to inequality in settlement practices.Directed at a wide audience of community and government practitioners, policy experts, academics, and civil society activists, Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the ability of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.

Stevens, Quentin, How Good Are Parklets?: Reclaiming Street Space Through Temporary and Tactical Urbanism. 340 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <752-909>
ISBN 978-1-032-87615-3 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-87614-6 paper ¥10,411.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Parklets are innovative, dynamic public spaces that are installed onto on-street car-parking spots. These very small spaces have had a very large and lasting impact on city streets. How Good Are Parklets? is the first book to critically examine the parklet's purposes, formats, and impacts. It traces the parklet's history, from its invention in 2005 as an experiment that tactically reclaimed street space for broader public use, to its surge in popularity worldwide after the COVID-19 pandemic for outdoor dining, community gathering, and play. Drawing together archival research, expert interviews, typological analysis, mapping, field observation and design research, the book examines parklets' design, production, and implementation across varying urban contexts. By examining a wide range of contemporary practices, the book identifies parklets' potentials to reshape streets, meet diverse social needs and foster community engagement. The book situates parklets within the wider push towards deploying temporary and tactical strategies in the planning and management of cities. Its deep enquiry into one question about one type of spatial intervention contributes new insights into the complex interplays of actors, interests, processes, and materials that are currently transforming the urban landscape - one parking space at a time.

Romanowicz, Anna / Choudhury, Ahana (eds.), Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts. (Urban Futures) 150 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-794>
ISBN 978-1-041-04427-7 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-05920-2 paper ¥10,411.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural spectres of their inhabitants. It highlights the arenas in which various politics and strategies of emotional relations are represented, created, enacted, and regulated through the inhabitants' lives and lifestyles. Exploring this, the chapters in the volume bring together and analyse the myriad forms of intersections within and between urban centres in India and Indian diaspora, as well as 'classed' emotions. The authors embark on scholarly inquiries to highlight the complex and fluid dynamics through which urban spaces and the class of its inhabitants question, attribute, influence, and perpetuate the diverse emotional states and responses, and vice versa - they examine the ways in which emotive subjectivities, relations, experiences and practices, question and influence multiple urban formations, power dynamics and spaces. They reveal how emotional and urban landscapes are not only represented but are also affected by the social class of the denizens.Part of the Urban Futures series, the volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of urban studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, urban planning, urban policy, public policy and architecture. It will also be of interest to the professional architects, urban designers, social geographers and policymakers.

Dreksler, Beata / Makhzoumi, Jala (eds.), Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East. (Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design) 232 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-803>
ISBN 978-1-032-86654-3 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging profession in the region. The book also responds to the limitations of faulty translations of the English 'landscape' that, in turn, limit the professional potential in the region.The authors of the book see landscape as a way of beholding the world that is informed by place and culture. And because landscape is context specific, a landscape framing contextualizes a problem, be it community development, tourism, or nature conservation, to foster place and culture responsive perspectives. The nine chapters are grouped under four broad themes that reflect the multifaceted, 'expansive' framing that embraces landscape, natural and cultural heritage, people and livelihoods and landscape and human rights.The authors recognize that a landscape framing is not the exclusive domain of landscape architecture, but can be applied by architects, planners and environmentalists. The ideas advanced and issues discussed will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in landscape architecture, architecture, planners and urban designers, as well as social and environmental scientists.

Cabrera, Juan E. / Blanc, Francesca / Cotella, G. (eds.), Spatial Governance and Planning in Latin America: A Comparative Account. 260 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-833>
ISBN 978-1-032-48481-5 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-48482-2 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of spatial governance and planning systems (SGPSs) in Latin America, with analysis and comparison across 10 different countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The primary function of SPGSs is to empower the public sector to exert control over spatial development. Originally understood mainly through a legal paradigm, it is now acknowledged that a range of informal institutions also play a role, responding to societal and community needs that the state or market are unable to address. This collection teases out these contrasting influences, highlighting the role of indigenous culture in certain contexts, and the increase of participatory processes in others. The book features not only individual country case studies, but also chapters discussing the broader themes, as well as how the Latin American context compares to the European one. A timely contribution to this evolving topic, the book will appeal students and scholars in the fields of planning, urban and regional studies, public policy, and human geography.

Genova, Neda, Politics of Surfaces: Transformations of Public Space in Post-Communist Sofia. (Spatial Politics) 240 pp. 2025:8 (Goldsmiths, UK) <752-667>
ISBN 978-1-915983-34-3 hard ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Pajvancic-Cizelj, Ana, Spaces of Europeanisation in the Balkans: Cities, Networks and Urban Epistemic Communities. (Southeast European Studies) 152 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <752-673>
ISBN 978-1-032-69643-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans, by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities. Exploring the participation of urban actors in inter-urban networks, it employs a new mixed-method framework to track the circulation of European urban knowledge and policies, and their impact in the Balkans. The author explores discourses, practices, and their interpretation, to show how participation in European urban networks continuously reshapes Balkan Cities urban trajectories with contradictory and variegated consequences. Analysis of 18 European inter-urban networks along with expert interviews with their members, helps readers visualize the relationships between Balkans cities and gives insight into their perceptions. This book will be of interest to both scholars of urban studies and Southeast European Studies scholars, as well as anyone interested in the Europeanization of the Balkans and its cities.

Corburn, Jason / Boggan, DeVone, Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love. 264 pp. 2025:10 (MIT Pr., US) <752-481>
ISBN 978-0-262-55221-9 paper ¥8,448.- (税込) US$ 40.00