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

Connor, Geoffrey Scot, The Rise of Houston As a Global City. (Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series) 384 pp. 2025:12 (Texas A&M U. Pr., US) <752-1314>
ISBN 978-1-64843-309-2 hard ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 42.50

Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the nation. It has long been regarded as the "Energy Capital of the World." Trademarked boasts frequently refer to the "world's busiest commercial seaport," "world's biggest medical complex," and "world's control center for space exploration." Houston has been home to some of the most politically powerful people in the world, some of the most influential businesspeople, and some of the most dazzling social figures. In The Rise of Houston as Global City, Geoffrey Scott Connor follows the ascent of Houston from its founding by the Allen Brothers in 1836 as a fledging port to its growth into a global center of international trade. Such rapid expansion began in earnest when, in 1901, a hurricane devastated Galveston and the Spindletop oil gusher changed Houston's fortune forever. The city absorbed much of Galveston's international trade even as it developed into the world's largest site for refineries and chemical plants. Connor also shows how local wealth and political power facilitated the establishment of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Hospital during World War II and its transformation into the world's largest medical complex and a leading center of advanced medicine. The continually expanding Texas Medical Center treated the world's elite while also developing new medical technologies for the general public. Having thus established itself as a center of technology, Houston again used its wealth and power to draw the Manned Spaceflight Center to the city in 1961. Space science depended on and attracted massive private sector investment, setting the stage for yet another technological expansion in the age of computing. The Rise of Houston as a Global City will contribute to the growing corpus of studies focused on the history of a major city that, especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, blends "boots and oil" with technology, innovation, and ambition.

Pakucs-Willcocks, Maria / Derzsi, Julia (eds.), Towns between Empires: Good Governance and "Police" in Case Studies from Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1500s-1800s. 338 pp. 2025:5 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <752-1315>
ISBN 978-963-386-900-0 hard ¥37,030.- (税込) GB￡ 128.00

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governance. Chapters give insight into the concepts and solutions applied by urban governments to political, social and economic issues that were under their care and control. The authors approach various aspects of this topic: town councils as political and economic elites of early modern towns, urban political systems as models of early modern ideas of administration, relations between towns and central authorities (the Prince), healthcare as good governance. The chapters in the volume capture the widest possible variety of political and administrative systems in the region. Transylvanian towns were structured and governed similarly to other small Central European urban centers, however significant diversity can be discerned following the Reformation. Moldavian and Wallachian towns in the 18th and 19th century are little known to international scholarship, and the chapters in this volume will fill this gap.

Rich, Harold, Fort Worth from World War II to 1960. (Texas Local Series 11) 448 pp. 2025:9 (U. North Texas Pr., US) <752-1316>
ISBN 978-1-57441-984-9 hard ¥8,448.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Fort Worth from World War II to 1960 reviews Fort Worth's history during the challenging times of World War II, the postwar adjustment period, and the first full decade of the Cold War. Harold Rich tells the story in broad strokes with foci on local crime and criminals, vice, the police, race relations, and economic development. What emerges is a portrait of a growing city developing major urban accoutrements such as industrialization, freeways, and an art infrastructure while also struggling with an active and sizable criminal underworld and the emerging Civil Rights Movement. The overall impression is that the nearly two decades from 1942 to 1960 were critical to transitioning Fort Worth from a nineteenth- to a twentieth-century city, but the end result was not an unqualified success. Fort Worth would achieve significant economic progress in the 1940s, especially from the addition of Convair, that would expand its population at a fast pace but would lose much of that momentum in the 1950s. During both decades the police confronted rising demands related to traffic control and internal corruption that most notably affected their ability to deal with gambling and prostitution, both of which seemed to be everywhere. As the 1950s drew to a close, both vices began to subside, more from a decline in public acceptance than from police activity. In the 1940s and 1950s, Fort Worth's criminal underworld was a major presence, heavily involved in vice and in several daring robberies, including a thwarted plan to rob Carswell Air Force Base. The most notorious gangsters met their ends in a long-running series of internal conflicts that began during the war and destroyed most of that underworld. At the same time, the postwar period witnessed the spread of illegal drug use across broad societal lines, sparking a corresponding response by police. In contrast, little changed regarding race relations despite the efforts of many local activists and favorable rulings emanating from the nation's courts. More significant progress would come in the 1960s and accelerate thereafter.

Averett, Matthew Knox, Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis. 348 pp. 2025:12 (U. Missouri Pr., US) <752-1081>
ISBN 978-0-8262-2339-5 hard ¥10,560.- (税込) US$ 50.00

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking down Canfield Drive, a residential street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. There, they encountered Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Moments later, Brown was dead on the street-shot by Wilson at least six times. That evening, a memorial appeared on the pavement where he had fallen. In the days that followed, vigils turned into protests, and protests into an Uprising, as police in riot gear faced off with a grieving, outraged community. For nearly two weeks, Ferguson commanded the nation's attention. The killing of Michael Brown was an outrage and it should not have happened. But Canfield Drive was primed for tragedy long before that fatal encounter because the street was already a place of racial conflict. This was no accident. Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis uncovers the deeper history behind the street where Brown died, tracing how race and the built environment have long intersected in St. Louis-from the city's founding to the Ferguson Uprising. The book follows the story of Black space across two centuries: from early Black communities, to the birth of the St. Louis Blues, to the Halcyon days of The Ville, to the destruction of Mill Creek Valley, to the tragedy of Pruitt-Igoe, and to the construction of Canfield Drive. Though Canfield Drive is the first comprehensive history of St. Louis's Black urban landscape, it is more than just St. Louis's story. Canfield Drive details the racial engineering of the American city. Here is the machinery of American segregation laid bare: occupancy covenants, court decisions, racial steering, white flight, public housing, voucher systems, and predatory policing that combine to transform neighborhoods into traps. Here too are the people who fought back, building community against staggering odds and securing civil rights reforms that transformed America's understanding of government's obligations to its citizens. Canfield Drive provides a powerful lens on the national story of race and the American city and reveals how Michael Brown's death was not just one officer's deadly decision, but the inevitable outcome of America's built environment-a tragedy centuries in the making, on a street designed for violence. This is how a place becomes a powder keg. This is how history erupts into headlines. This is the story behind the story that America couldn't look away from. This is the story of how a street came to matter, and how it came to stand for something far greater than itself.

Frame, Robert M., III, Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis. 376 pp. 2026:2 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <751-1231>
ISBN 978-0-8166-6760-4 hard ¥8,437.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide-and forever changed the culture and architecture of Minneapolis Among the most consequential advances of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of the modern roller mill, which sent the traditional millstone into obsolescence and fundamentally changed the production of a key ingredient to feeding the world. The culture and landscape of its hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was altered as well, and Making Mill City tells the story of how revolutionary technologies originating at St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River put Minneapolis on the map and cemented its world status as "Mill City." With deep historical detail and abundant illustrations, Robert M. Frame III charts the dramatic transformation of Minneapolis milling-and urban life-between the early 1870s and 1920s. Two machines propelled this change: the middlings purifier and the modern roller mill. Enabling millers to grind hard Upper Midwestern spring wheat, these innovations gave rise to the "mammoth mills" and ever-expanding flour factories that would soon dominate the Minneapolis riverfront. Prominent entrepreneurs like those who gave their names to the Washburn and Pillsbury A Mills were significant, but Frame foregrounds the crucial roles of the millers, millwrights, and engineers who designed and equipped the massive new factories, as well as the editor of the legendary weekly trade publication Northwestern Miller, to paint a picture of the vibrant culture that grew around this industrial phenomenon. A rich narrative describing how Minneapolis became the largest producer and exporter of wheat flour for more than fifty years, Making Mill City captures a critical chapter in the history of the city. Art and architecture inspired by mills and millers stand today as National Historic Landmarks, and the development and success of the current thriving metropolis have strong foundations in its milling history.

Faygnberg, Rokhl, The Destruction of Dubova: Chronicle of a Dead City. Ed. by E. Bemporad. Tr. by C. Madansky. (Yiddish Voices) 184 pp. 2025:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1455>
ISBN 978-1-350-51710-3 hard ¥14,465.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-51709-7 paper ¥4,914.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99 *

Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, The Destruction of the Dubova Shtetl is a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one shtetl during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921. Based on her personal interviews with survivors, Faygnberg presents a detailed description of the evisceration of the vibrant Jewish community of Dubova, which, after enduring torture, killings, and destruction-was ultimately wiped off the map of Ukraine. In this unique memorial book, translated into English here for the first time, Faygnberg chronicles the demise of a typical shtetl, which like so many others at the time, was caught up in the genocidal violence of the civil war, a period that is largely forgotten, overshadowed by the Holocaust that took place in these same lands some twenty years later. The biographical details of the Jewish community members of Dubova provide a moving portrait of the familiar and neighborly relations, as well as of the pettiness of everyday life on the eve of destruction, made of conflict, class tension, and intermarriage. Faygnberg's narrative also captures the extreme violence of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, by dwelling on the perpetrators' actions and motivations, and on the intimacy of genocide made of neighbors killing neighbors, and by bringing to life the Jewish community's desperate attempts to resist and survive the brutality.By building on the most recent historiography on the Russian Civil War and anti-Jewish violence, Elissa Bemporad expertly contextualizes the destruction of the shtetl of Dubova within the political and military events of 1918-1921 in the volume's introduction. Bemporad explores both the perpetrators' motivations and the victims' responses to the pogroms, as well as examining the original writing produced by Rokhl Faygnberg, whose genre straddles between a historical chronicle based on witness accounts, and a work of literature. Lastly, the introduction discusses the fascinating history of Faygnberg's text, uncovering the different political and cultural purposes it served at different times and what it can tell us about anti-Jewish violence today.

都市と経済－ブラウンシュヴァイクの経済史の側面
Buck, Meike / Steinfuehrer, Henning (Hrsg.), Stadt und Wirtschaft: Aspekte Braunschweiger Wirtschaftsgeschichte. (Braunschweiger Werkstuecke 125) 256 S. 2025:12 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <749-326>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5682-5 hard ¥4,950.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Der Sammelband beleuchtet unterschiedliche Aspekte der Braunschweiger Wirtschaftsgeschichte in verschiedenen Epochen und fragt nach ihrer Bedeutung fuer die Stadtgeschichtsforschung. Im Jahr 2031 begeht die Stadt Braunschweig den 1000. Jahrestag ihrer schriftlichen Ersterwaehnung in der Magniurkunde von 1031. Dieses Jubilaeum bietet einen Anlass, die Stadtgeschichte neu in den Blick zu nehmen: Von der Zeit als bedeutende Handelsmetropole ueber die Phase als Residenzstadt und Zentrum des gleichnamigen Landes bis zum Ende des alten Landes Braunschweig im Jahr 1946 und seiner Entwicklung zum regionalen Oberzentrum im?21.?Jahrhundert. Der vorliegende Sammelband fasst die Ergebnisse der zweiten Tagung in der der Stadtgeschichte gewidmeten Dekade zusammen. Er nimmt die Braunschweiger Wirtschaftsgeschichte in den Blick und fragt nach ihrer Bedeutung fuer die Stadtgeschichtsforschung. Die Beitraege setzen sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten der staedtischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte in verschiedenen Epochen auseinander, von Handel und Gewerbe im Mittelalter, staedtischer Oekonomie in der Fruehen Neuzeit bis hin zur Industrialisierung und Wirtschaftsgeschichte im Nationalsozialismus. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf der Frage nach der Bedeutung Braunschweigs als Innovationsstandort.

公営住宅の新しい歴史
Husock, Howard A., The Projects: A New History of Public Housing. 240 pp. 2025:9 (New York U. Pr., US) <748-833>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2843-2 hard ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help - and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock explains how we got here, detailing the tragic rise and fall of public housing and the pitfalls of other subsidy programs. He takes us inside a progressive movement led by a group of New York City philanthropists, politicians, and business magnates who first championed public housing as a solution to urban blight. From First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to the controversial city planner Robert Moses, many well-known historical figures made a convincing case for affordable housing in America. Despite the movement's lofty ideals, the creation of the Projects led to the destruction of low-income communities across the country. From the Hill District in Pittsburgh to Black Bottom in Detroit, predominantly Black neighborhoods were judged only by the quality of their housing. Husock looks beyond these neighborhoods' physical conditions to their uncounted riches, from local artists like August Wilson to vital community institutions. As he shares residents' stories, he honors what they crafted through their own plans, rather than those of city planners. Husock traces the history of public housing to contemporary debates on the government's role in the housing market. Through interviews with residents, he reveals how public housing transformed the lives of Americans and the physical faces of cities and towns. He ultimately critiques "repair and reform" efforts, making policy recommendations that address the core failings of public housing for the people it was once designed to help. Mapping out a better path for policy-makers, he lays a new foundation for upward mobility in America.

Vorms, Charlotte / Fischer, Brodwyn (eds.), Informal Cities: Histories of Governance and Inequality in Latin Europe, Latin America, and Colonial North Africa. 376 pp. 2025:9 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-988>
ISBN 978-0-226-83599-0 hard ¥24,288.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83601-0 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has been widely debated, we still know very little about the phenomenon's urban history or how that history has shaped the evolution of world cities. Spotlighting the historical processes that have created and sustained urban informality for more than a century, editors Charlotte Vorms and Brodwyn Fischer and this volume's contributors reveal informality as an intrinsic feature of urbanity, shaping not only cities across the globe but also deeper processes of state formation, socioeconomic stratification, and political struggle. The volume brings together case studies spanning more than a hundred years, drawn from Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and Mexico), Northern Africa (Morocco and Algeria), and Latin Europe (France, Spain, and Italy). Together, they show that informality is neither a contemporary crisis nor a predicament unique to the Global South. Topics include the origins of informal settlements and their relationship with law and institutional power; grassroots efforts to legitimize shantytown communities; mass social movements for rights to the city; the role that shantytown removal campaigns played in populist politics, fascism, and colonialism; and the ways that informality perpetuated racial and ethnic inequalities. Informal Cities is an indispensable guide to the complex and fraught terrain of urban informality in its many historical guises.

ニューヨーク市と経済開発の闘争　1865～1981年
Wortel-London, Daniel, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 336 pp. 2025:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-451>
ISBN 978-0-226-84109-0 hard ¥24,288.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84111-3 paper ¥6,864.- (税込) US$ 32.50

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined-or constrained-by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what's good for the rich is good for cities. Convinced that local finances depend on attracting wealthy firms and residents, municipal governments lavish public subsidies on their behalf. Whatever form this strategy takes-tax-exempt apartments, corporate incentives, debt-financed mega projects-its rationale remains consistent and assumed to be true. But this wasn't always the case. Between the 1870s and the 1970s, a wide range of activists, citizens, and intellectuals in New York City connected local fiscal crises to the greed and waste of the rich. These figures saw other routes to development, possibilities rooted in alternate ideas about what was fiscally viable. In The Menace of Prosperity, Daniel Wortel-London argues that urban economics and politics are shaped by what he terms the "fiscal imagination" of policymakers, activists, advocates, and other figures. His survey of New York City during a period of explosive growth shows how residents went beyond the limits of redistributive liberalism to imagine how their communities could become economically viable without the largesse of the wealthy. Their strategies-which included cooperatives, public housing, land-value taxation, public utilities, and more-centered the needs and capabilities of ordinary residents as the basis for local economies that were both prosperous and just. Overturning stale axioms about economic policy, The Menace of Prosperity shows that not all growth is productive for cities. Wortel-London's ambitious history demonstrates the range of options we've abandoned and hints at the economic frameworks we could still realize-and the more democratic cities that might result.

Pacyga, Dominic A., Clout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine. 400 pp. 2025:9 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1558>
ISBN 978-0-226-73370-8 hard ¥6,864.- (税込) US$ 32.50

Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades. In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it determines whether insider access is granted or denied, favors are given or withheld, and payoffs are made or received. But Chicago clout, as we know it today, is even more potent than that-it's the absolute currency of a social, cultural, and political order that is self-reinforcing and self-dealing. Or at least, it was. In Clout City, award-winning historian Dominic A. Pacyga reveals how cultural, ethnic, and religious forces created this distinctive system-and ultimately led to its collapse. Tracing clout's origins in the Irish-Catholic-dominated working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport, shaped by De La Salle Institute and home to the legendary Daley family, Pacyga shows how communal ties can be a force for good and also the deepest wellspring of corruption. He maps Chicago's unique politics to its remarkable history, from the Great Fire of 1871 through its rise and decline as an industrial center to its emergence as a global city in the early twenty-first century. With deep research and firsthand experience from a lifetime in the city, Pacyga argues that Chicago's politics is understood best as a mixture of cultural and religious influences and more worldly pursuits, exploring how both Jewish and Catholic communalism played central roles in the creation and sustenance of the Chicago machine. Chicago's politics today aren't as defined by its distinctive brand of clout. But they are shaped by clout's decline and the ghost of the machine. Pacyga's tour of the city's multilayered past is an indispensable guide to its present and future.

Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. (ed.), Metropolitan Latinidad: Transforming American Urban History. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 360 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1559>
ISBN 978-0-226-83981-3 hard ¥24,288.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83983-7 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A scholarly discipline that has long scrutinized economics, politics, and the built environment has too often framed race as literally Black and white. This has resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the full social canvas of American cities since at least the early twentieth century. Traversing metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, this collection of essays brings together both established and emerging scholars, including long-time urbanists and academics working in the fields of Latino, borderlands, political, landscape, and religious history. Organized at different scales-including city, suburb, neighborhood, and hemisphere-this impressive body of work challenges long-standing narratives about metropolitan America. The contributors-Llana Barber, Mauricio Castro, Eduardo Contreras, Sandra I. Enriquez, Monika Gosin, Cecilia Sanchez Hill, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael Innis-Jimenez, Max Krochmal, Becky M. Nicolaides, Pedro A. Regalado, Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, and Thomas J. Sugrue-engage a diverse range of subjects, such as urban rebellions, the suburbanization of Latinos, affordable housing, labor, the built environment, transnationalism, place-making, and religious life. The scholars also explore race within Latino communities, as well as the role that political and economic dynamics have played in creating Latino urban spaces. After reading this book, you will never see American cities the same way again.

Souther, J. Mark, Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia. (Making the Modern South) 288 pp. 2025:8 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1561>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8489-9 hard ¥9,504.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters' hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities situated along the fall line running through the middle of the state.

近現代における都市史
Carvalho, Bruno, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World. 424 pp. 2026:1 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1554>
ISBN 978-0-691-24655-0 hard ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization-from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from those of the past. Planners pursued progress, whether focused on flying vehicles above, sewage systems below, or daily life in between. Yet, as Bruno Carvalho shows in this original and wide-ranging history, which features some sixty illustrations, modern cities have continuously defied predictions. Visionary designs and technological innovations created dramatic, unforeseen outcomes, and the ongoing urban boom is a story of continuity as well as rupture. A compelling history of imagined future cities and the real cities they created and transformed, The Invention of the Future also suggests what we might learn from their stories as we try to shape our own future.Moving between large-scale changes and detailed examples, this captivating narrative tells the story of key moments and turning points: the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake; the 1811 Commissioners' Plan for Manhattan; Parisian reforms from 1853 to 1870; Le Corbusier's plans for South American cities in the 1920s and 1930s; the postwar victory of the car; the utopian capital of Brasilia; and urban growth in Africa.In recent decades, Carvalho argues, the capacity to invent urban futures has become increasingly constrained. Social and environmental challenges loom large. But the story is not over. While cities helped create current problems, compact and transit-rich urbanization might be our best hope to combine high living standards with sustainability. Sometimes, moving forward can involve reaching back to the future.

Chamberlain, Charles D., New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City. 376 pp. 2025:8 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1555>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8487-5 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Lieb, Emily, Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 240 pp. 2025:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1557>
ISBN 978-0-226-84436-7 hard ¥24,288.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84438-1 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Song, Nianshen, The Neighborhood: Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City. (Silk Roads) 304 pp. 2025:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1016>
ISBN 978-0-226-84328-5 hard ¥24,288.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84330-8 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Andres, Lauren / Beebeejaun, Yasminah / Rydin, Y. (eds.), New Planning Histories. (Planning, Environment, Cities) 264 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, GW) <747-1142>
ISBN 978-981-9638-66-6 paper ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book brings new scholarship to students on the origins and development of planning thoughts, theories, policies, institutions and practices, outlining how these have shaped planning as a state and professional activity. It showcases the work of leading scholars working to develop new histories of planning, giving particular attention to the impact of colonisation and its approach to race, which has significantly impacted planning processes, as well as to the importance of women and people of colour as significant actors in the development of planning policy and practices. The chapters bring a much-needed global and comparative perspective, including views from the 'Global South' and from countries where planning remains an under-resourced and under-recognised profession. This is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in planning, architecture and urban studies.

Clevenger, Samuel M., Physical Culture and the Biopolitics of the International Garden City Movement: Planning Healthy Recreation. 218 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-1145>
ISBN 978-3-031-86980-8 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within garden city planning discourse and the development of some of the first garden city communities in the United Kingdom and United States.

Gaulin, Jean-Louis / Rau, Susanne (eds.), Fairs, Cities and Merchants: Spatiotemporal Analyses (14th-17th century). (SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit 19) 420 pp. 2025:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-370>
ISBN 978-3-11-162083-1 hard ¥22,261.- (税込) EUR 89.95 *

Today, it has largely been forgotten that fairs played a decisive role in trade and finance in pre-modern Europe. In the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, many cities endeavoured to obtain a fair privilege and attract as many merchants as possible. Through the economic activities and infrastructures provided, a supra-regional spatial configuration gradually emerged, which was not only made up of places within a region, but across the whole of Europe and in some cases the wider world. The contributions in this volume are based on a project jointly funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the German Research Foundation, which focussed mainly on fairs and cities in France, the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. In chronological terms, they cover the period from the end of the Champagne fairs (ca. 1320) to the success of the Besancon fairs (ca. 1580 to 1630), which epitomised a new type of fair. The geographical focus has been extended to include fairs and trade routes in Eastern Europe and China (temple fairs). This overall view makes it possible for the first time to analyse the functions of the various market forms in their regional context and in their development: from the exchange of goods to the credit market and financing government debt, but also the deep integration of the merchant culture into urban and religious culture. Based on archival studies and the integration of artefacts, new graphs and maps, this volume provides a new look at the history of annual markets and fairs. In addition to functional aspects, spatiotemporal aspects such as disputes over fair dates, visiting rhythms, the transport of goods and routes (by land and water) are dealt with. Credit activities, transport of goods, and mobility of merchants, trading families and companies point to the highly developed transnational dimension of pre-modern trade. The volume concludes with a presentation of the project database, its functionalities and opportunities to participate.

中世ケルン－ラインラントの大都市からヨーロッパの都市へ　1125～1475年
Huffman, Joseph P., Medieval Cologne: From Rhineland Metropolis to European City (A.D. 1125-1475). 650 pp. 2024:11 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1528>
ISBN 978-3-11-157086-0 hard ¥27,211.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

In Anglophone literature the historical questions of urban, socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural development have been answered with Anglo-French, Anglo-Low Countries, and Anglo-Italian paradigms and sources, with medieval Germany left out as a peripheral and largely irrelevant anomaly. And conversely, German Rhineland scholars have remained within the civic public history and academic Landesgeschichte traditions with few exceptions, and thus rarely have they engaged with the historical questions raised in wider European circles. This volume challenges these historiographical propensities by offering a fresh look at medieval urban Germany, one that more accurately and more relevantly and more equitably integrates Cologne and the Rhineland into the wider histories of medieval Europe. This volume engages with historical questions of wider relevance across both German and European medieval histories. It invites and seeks to persuade all scholars and students of medieval Europe to make more use of Cologne as a key source for their research and writing.

Smith, Holly, Up In The Air: A History of High Rise Britain. 288 pp. 2025:10 (Verso, UK) <746-1529>
ISBN 978-1-80429-737-7 hard ¥5,786.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00

Up in the Air tells the story of Britain's multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the present day. Throughout its history, high rise has been a symbol of the welfare state for better or worse. Here, Holly Smith tells a new story from the perspective of those who lived there, exploring how residents grappled with this brave new world above the old skyline. Through a series of historical moments based upon prize-winning research, we confront the human story of high-rise Britain. Interrogating the complex inheritance of mid-century urban reconstruction, Smith shows how these buildings became a crucible for the welfare state's reimagination over the decades. She traces the scattering of a local community during the construction of Park Hill in Sheffield in the 1950s. The resistance of residents after the Ronan Point collapse of 1968. The formation of a pioneering tenants' cooperative to revive a crumbling estate during the closure of the Docklands. The rage of a National Tower Blocks Network advocating for high-rise safety in the 1980s and 1990s. The excitement of early digital culture in a Liverpudlian pensioners' high-rise internet television show in the 2000s. And the fierce battle to defend estates from demolition in the 2010s.Up in the Air is a rich history of political struggle within Britain's most misunderstood buildings, offering essential lessons for a reformed social housing compact.

中世から現在までの都市の秩序の主役たち
Benyovsky Latin, Irena / Stercken, Martina et al. (eds.), Protagonists of Urban Order from the Middle Ages to the Present: Actions, Ideas, Concepts. (Central European Medieval Studies) 266 pp. 2025:3 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <745-1061>
ISBN 978-90-485-5951-0 hard ¥34,137.- (税込) GB￡ 118.00 *

European cities and towns are considered places with a particular order established by their inhabitants. This volume centres on the authorities, groups, and individuals who formed the rules for common life in urban communities. It considers the protagonists of urban order between the Middle Ages and modernity: those who were responsible for the common welfare, those who produced change, and those who caused disorder. The authors focus on the practices that shaped the order of urban communities and in particular on situations in which this order was transformed socially and spatially. By looking at urban order through this lens, the volume sheds light on the complex interplay of interests that can bring about change.

Njoh, Ambe J., Africa in Urban History. (Elements in Global Urban History) 90 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-968>
ISBN 978-1-009-50072-2 hard ¥15,911.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-44684-6 paper ¥5,207.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firstly, it employs race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory as conceptual frameworks to analyze the spatial structures, social, and political-economic dynamics of African cities from global, comparative, and transnational perspectives. Secondly, it proposes a new typology of the continent's cities. Thirdly, it identifies and draws into focus an important but oft-ignored part of Africa's urban history, namely Indigenous cities. It focuses more intensely on the few that still exist to date. Fourthly, it employs conflict, functional, and symbolic interactionist theories as well as elements of the race ideology to explain the articulation of racism, ethnicity, and classism in the continent's urban space. This is done mainly but not exclusively from historical perspectives.

Peychev, Stefan, The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s-1910s. (Studies in Environment and History) 320 pp. 2025:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-948>
ISBN 978-1-009-55885-3 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

In this innovative interdisciplinary work, Stefan Peychev problematizes the dominant narrative of decline and stagnation in Ottoman Sofia. Drawing on a range of sources and perspectives, including environmental and urban history, archaeology and anthropology, he examines the creation and experience of urban space and place. By employing a longue duree framework and considering empire-wide developments, this work challenges the epistemological boundaries that have traditionally separated Ottoman from post-Ottoman space and the Middle East from Southeast Europe. Peychev argues instead for an integrated understanding of Sofia's water infrastructure, in which Ottoman ideas of the built environment fused with local cultural and technological traditions to create an efficient and long-lasting system.

Lopes, Maria-Aparecida / Zuleta, Maria Cecilia, Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City. (Elements in Global Urban History) 92 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1342>
ISBN 978-1-009-50087-6 hard ¥15,911.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-06031-8 paper ¥5,207.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City explores a fundamental question through the lens of the modern metropolis: How did the experience of food and eating evolve throughout the twentieth century? In answering this query, this Element examines significant changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of food in cities worldwide. It takes a comprehensive view of foodways, encompassing the material, institutional, and sociocultural conditions that shaped food's journey from farm to table. The work delves into everyday practices like buying, selling, cooking, and eating, both at home and in public spaces. Central themes include local and global food governance and food access inequality as urban communities, markets, and governments navigated the complex landscape of abundance and scarcity. This Element highlights the unique dynamics of food supply and consumption over time.

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 ¥15,911.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-44323-4 paper ¥5,207.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

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.

Shilin, Liu, Development History of the Grand Canal Cities - Volume 1. 347 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-980>
ISBN 978-981-9619-48-1 hard ¥34,646.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book presents a comprehensive account of the history of the Grand Canal of China, which is over 6,000 miles long and more than 2,500 years old. The Grand Canal of China flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, connecting the five major water systems of the Hai River, Huai River, Yellow River, Yangtze River, and Qiantang River, as well as the Central Plains culture, Jiangnan culture, and other cultural resources. The book's core content revolves around 21 pivotal cities along the canal. It draws upon a rich tapestry of authentic historical accounts, local chronicles, poetic traditions, Ming and Qing-era novels, and a plethora of other vivid materials. It encompasses a comprehensive range of subjects, including culture, geography, commerce, water conservancy, and other aspects related to the Grand Canal. It examines the historical and cultural resources associated with the Grand Canal, providing a systematic organization of the cultural assets and modes of life that have developed along its route. The text also explores the significant role that this waterway has played in shaping the spiritual identity of the Chinese people and the nation as a whole.

Shilin, Liu, Development History of the Grand Canal Cities - Volume 2. 303 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-981>
ISBN 978-981-9619-52-8 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book presents a comprehensive account of the history of the Grand Canal of China, which is over 6,000 miles long and more than 2,500 years old. The Grand Canal of China flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, connecting the five major water systems of the Hai River, Huai River, Yellow River, Yangtze River, and Qiantang River, as well as the Central Plains culture, Jiangnan culture, and other cultural resources. The book's core content revolves around 21 pivotal cities along the canal. It draws upon a rich tapestry of authentic historical accounts, local chronicles, poetic traditions, Ming and Qing-era novels, and a plethora of other vivid materials. It encompasses a comprehensive range of subjects, including culture, geography, commerce, water conservancy, and other aspects related to the Grand Canal. It examines the historical and cultural resources associated with the Grand Canal, providing a systematic organization of the cultural assets and modes of life that have developed along its route. The text also explores the significant role that this waterway has played in shaping the spiritual identity of the Chinese people and the nation as a whole.

M.K.シンコーヴィッチと手ごろな住宅の夢
Caroli, Betty Boyd, A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing. 384 pp. 2026:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <743-1138>
ISBN 978-0-19-779380-0 hard ¥7,389.- (税込) US$ 34.99

Alston, Richard, Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities: London, Athens and Rome in the Nineteenth Century. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) 232 pp. 2025:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-1469>
ISBN 978-1-350-44531-4 hard ¥24,590.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously modern nations. Politicians and architects invested in classical styles in their efforts to break with traditions and assert new values. Classical style was employed to address questions of urbanism and nation, citizenship and belonging, and history and civilization. The story of 19th-century architectural Classicism offers a compelling narrative of utopian dreams clashing with authoritarian politics to generate the complexities of modern urban landscapes. Through these three case studies, this book illuminates how Classicism became a potent tool for expressing elitist nationalism in London, excluding Greeks from their own capital in Athens, and reinforcing aspiration to a technocratic, new Rome. As such grand visions collided with modern urban realities, Alston unravels the mythic allure and ultimate failure of these utopian endeavours. This book presents a riveting exploration of the architectural choices that reflected the aspirations and challenges of a rapidly changing world, leaving a lasting impact on the capitals and their nations.

プラハ－ヨーロッパの中心
Paces, Cynthia, Prague: The Heart of Europe. 408 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <743-1471>
ISBN 978-0-19-755483-8 hard ¥7,389.- (税込) US$ 34.99

1933～45年のニューヨーク市の歴史
Wallace, Mike, Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945. 800 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <743-1474>
ISBN 978-0-19-938451-8 hard ¥9,504.- (税込) US$ 45.00

O'Connell, James C., Boston and the Making of a Global City. 260 pp. 2025:7 (U. Massachusetts Pr., US) <742-985>
ISBN 978-1-62534-863-0 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-62534-862-3 paper ¥6,958.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

In the late twentieth century the American and global economy shifted from manufacturing toward a knowledge industry. Following an economic low point several decades earlier, the city of Boston took advantage of the new era of globalization, fueled by dramatic advances in telecommunications, computer power, and air and sea travel, as well as its own impressive intellectual capital.Boston and the Making of a Global City pulls together scholarship, media stories, personal interviews, and city planning documents to tell the story of Boston's historical trajectory, as it quickly became a competitive global hub. Starting with its role as a colonial port and nineteenth-century maritime power, but moving quickly forward, the book describes how Boston capitalized on its strengths in higher education and such innovation sectors as life sciences, healthcare, information technology, and finance. Author James O'Connell traces the historical sweep of global flows-trade and supply chains, innovation and the dissemination of knowledge, investment, transportation, tourism, telecommunications, and immigration-that have shaped the city and region's development. This volume also addresses the economic, social, and environmental challenges that Boston currently faces and how it is strategically positioned to confront them going forward.

Boland Erkkila, Catherine, Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements. (Culture, Politics, and the Build Environment) 272 pp. 2025:4 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <742-771>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4849-0 hard ¥13,728.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series

Parker, Kai, City of Black Souls: Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination. (Politics and Culture in Modern America) 304 pp. 2025:5 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-797>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2752-1 hard ¥10,549.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialism City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism. This was a movement of Ethiopianism-meaning a movement for Black religious and political independence inspired by biblical references to "Ethiopia," particularly Psalm 68:31, "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." Through Ethiopianism, Kai Parker argues, Black Chicago Protestants drew from Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Christian traditions and worked with West African Christians to imagine that Afrodiasporic Christian faith heralded the apocalyptic end of imperialism and white supremacy. Parker illuminates the apocalyptic Ethiopianism of famous Black Chicagoans such as Ida B. Wells and gospel musician Thomas Dorsey, and of lesser-known ones such as painter William Edouard Scott and Nigerian immigrant turned anticolonial missionary Samuel Wadiei Martin. When John C. Robinson, a Black Chicagoan, led Haile Selassie's air force against Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935-1936, this was no coincidence, but rather an outgrowth of decades of Ethiopianism in Chicago. City of Black Souls shows that Ethiopianism was a dynamic, heterogeneous, and modern movement through which Black migrants to Chicago engaged the industrial city and influenced the mid-twentieth-century anticolonial and civil rights movements. The book is especially important to Black religious and political studies in its demonstration of how apocalyptic Ethiopianism differed in its contributions to the Black freedom struggle from the canonical "prophetic" religion grounded in the Exodus notion of moving from slavery to freedom.

American Philosophical Society (ed.), Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City. 110 pp. 2025:6 (American Philosophical Society Pr., US) <742-979>
ISBN 978-1-60618-122-5 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

歴史における世界の都市－古代メソポタミアからオランダ帝国までの都市ネットワーク
Leon, Joshua K., World Cities in History: Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire. 346 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <742-982>
ISBN 978-1-009-44497-2 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-44499-6 paper ¥8,965.- (税込) GB￡ 30.99 *

Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam's seventeenth-century 'golden age.' He provides a fresh, interdisciplinary reading of significant periods in history, showing how global networks have shaped everyday life. Alongside grand architecture, art and literature, these extraordinary places also innovated ways to exert control over far-flung hinterlands, the labor of their citizens, and rigid class, race and gender divides. Asking what it meant for ordinary people to live in Athens, Rome, Chang'an, or Baghdad - those who built and fed these cities, not just their rulers - he offers one of the few fully rendered applications of world cities theory to historical cases. The result is not only vividly detailed and accessible, but an intriguing and theoretically original contribution to urban history.

Moss, Timothy (ed.), Grounding Berlin: Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present. (History of the Urban Environment) 384 pp. 2025:10 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <742-983>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4832-2 hard ¥12,672.- (税込) US$ 60.00

A Historical Overview of Environmental and Infrastructure Politics in Berlin. This edited volume represents the first comprehensive collection of essays on Berlin's environmental and infrastructure history. Encompassing 150 years, from Berlin becoming capital of the German Reich to the present day, Ecologies of Technopolis covers a tremendous diversity of political regimes, providing fascinating perspectives on how Europe's "technopolis" enrolled, transformed, disfigured, and celebrated urban environments. Grounding Berlin is structured around four thematic sections. 'Engineering Environments' explores the sociotechnical configuration of the urban environment through infrastructure-and its limitations. 'Molding Metabolisms', looks at the flows of natural resources through the city, as mediated by socioeconomic and political forces. 'Politicizing Pollution' investigates how issues of environmental and landscape degradation have engendered popular protest and contestation. Furthermore, 'Nurturing Natures' discusses how particular landscapes in Berlin have been mobilized for recreation, survival, renewal, or protection, altering the ways urban nature is envisioned and enhanced in the city. AUTHOR: Dr. Timothy Moss is Senior Researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin and an Honorary Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover 44 b/w illustrations

スペイン、ポルトガル、モロッコの都市計画史
Hass-Klau, Carmen, The History of Urban Planning in Spain, Portugal and Morocco: Muslim and Christian Traditions. 400 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-543>
ISBN 978-1-032-57597-1 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-57598-8 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book includes a historic overview of urban planning on the Iberian Peninsula and in Morocco from 700 AD until the 20th century.Under Muslim rule, there was an urban sophistication which was unfamiliar in the Christian world, with the conquest of Granada and the discovery of America often seen as the beginning of a new era. This book presents a different view of Spain and Portugal which does not equate with the glamorous picture usually painted about the 16th century. Chapters detail the untold story of Muslim refugees, who founded towns in Morocco, and how the conflicts between Morocco and Spain started not only politically but also in terms of town planning, when Spain took over the Moroccan north. The history of Islamic city planning shows more consistency compared to the Christian equivalent, which became dominant world-wide whereas the Islamic approach is mainly forgotten. Despite this, the change from Islamic to Christian cities was extremely slow regardless of the power of the church and the wealth which came from abroad. In tracing this history, this book seeks to highlight the past in order to learn from it and move towards building a future of liveable cities.The book will be of interest to students and instructors of planning history, urban planning, and human geography and to people who are generally interested in history and cities.

ポルトガルの都市の市場空間－アーバニズムと商業施設　15～17世紀
Nunes Pereira, Daniela, The Market Space of Portuguese Cities: Urbanism and Commercial Architecture, 15th-17th Centuries. (Routledge Research in Early Modern History) 390 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-194>
ISBN 978-1-032-58417-1 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics.The terminology and architectural elements of commercial spaces are analyzed to understand the organization of markets. By examining terms such as square, street, town hall, estaus, granaries, porches, arcades, balconies, and shops, the book not only maps the physical locations of these markets but also offers an interpretation of these spaces as instruments of economic control and power organization, reflecting the tensions between market efficiency and the dominance of urban elites. Based on historical documents including contracts, municipal records, and urban regulations, the book offers fresh perspectives on market spaces in Portuguese cities, highlighting the crucial role of commerce in urban transformation and in the adaptation to the increasing economic demands of this period.This volume is intended for historians, architects, urban planners, and scholars interested in urban history, economic history, and the intersection of architecture and commerce. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it relevant for any reader seeking to understand how trade shaped cities in the early modern period.

Ansfield, Bench, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City. 352 pp. 2025:10 (Norton, US) <741-1373>
ISBN 978-1-324-09351-0 hard ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 31.99

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated an entire chaotic era in this nation's history. Across the 1970s, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, leveling poor communities of color. However, as historian Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in Flames, the majority of those fires weren't set by residents-as is usually assumed-but by landlords seeking insurance payouts. Ansfield introduces the term "brownlining" for the subprime insurance practices imposed by the federal government and insurance industry after 1968, and shows why, with buildings worth more dead than alive, landlords turned to the torch. In an expansive narrative stretching from the Bronx to Britain to Brazil, Ansfield tracks the flows of money that signaled the arrival of our financialized age. From the ashes arose the modern tenant movement and the fight for housing justice amid a new era of housing insecurity.

Clemens, Gabriele B. / Thielen, K. / Zimmermann, C. (Hrsg.), Industriestaedte: Historische Herausforderungen und aktuelle stadtpolitische Strategien. Tagungsband der 62. Jahrestagung des Suedwestdeutschen Arbeitskreises fuer Stadtgeschichtsforschung. (Stadt in der Geschichte 50) 288 S. 2025:4 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <741-1374>
ISBN 978-3-525-30331-3 hard ¥12,375.- (税込) EUR 50.00 *

Industriestaedte sind ein bedeutendes Phaenomen der Urbanisierungsgeschichte. Sie weisen jeweils besondere Profile und eine spezifische Historizitaet auf. Der Band greift diese historische Dimension auf und sucht eine Engfuehrung auf den Begriff der Deindustrialisierung zu ueberwinden. Er beleuchtet dabei unter anderem die einschneidenden Verlusten an Arbeitsplaetzen, wie sich Akteure in diesen Staedten selbst verorteten, welche Initiativen sie ergriffen, zum Beispiel im Wohnungsbau, und wie das historische Erbe heute dargestellt wird ? zum Beispiel im Ruhrgebiet. Neben Studien zu kleineren Industriestaedten im Saar-Lor-Lux-Raum finden sich auch Analysen zu groesseren Staedten wie Mannheim sowie komparative Perspektiven zu analogen Strukturproblemen in Frankreich und Ostdeutschland. Dabei werden diverse Entwicklungsstrategien in der als Schwerpunkt behandelten Sar-Lor-Lux-Region deutlich. Sie reichen von der Konversion altindustrieller Flaechen, ueber die Modernisierung von Infrastrukturen bis zur Ansiedlung neuer technologischer Zweige. Erstmalig werden die Selbstverstaendnisse solcher Staedte und die lokalen Entwicklungspotenziale ? insbesondere in der multinationalen Sar-Lor-Lux-Region ? thematisiert.

Wassner, Manfred / Wegner, Tjark / Pope, Ben (Hrsg.), Stadt und Adel: Tagungsband der 59. Jahrestagung des Suedwestdeutschen Arbeitskreises fuer Stadtgeschichtsforschung. (Stadt in der Geschichte 49) 384 S. 2025:2 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <741-1375>
ISBN 978-3-525-30293-4 hard ¥12,375.- (税込) EUR 50.00 *

Gegensatz oder sich ergaenzende Konzepte? Antagonisten oder Partner? Das Begriffspaar ?Stadt und Adel“, seine vielschichtigen Assoziationen sowie Verbindungen und auch die damit zusammenhaengenden gesellschaftlichen Kategorien und Modelle von Buergertum, Eliten und adeligem Selbstverstaendnis stehen seit laengerem im Fokus der historischen Forschung. Waehrend Stadt und Adel traditionell gerne als Gegensaetze gesehen wurden, hat die juengere Forschung verstaerkt die engen Verflechtungen zwischen Stadt und Adel vom Mittelalter bis zur Fruehen Neuzeit herausgearbeitet. Dies zeigt, dass ein differenzierter Blick auf das komplexe wechselseitige Verhaeltnis und die verschiedenen Handlungsfelder staedtischer und adliger Akteure notwendig ist, welcher alte Klischees aus dem Weg raeumt. Die Beitraege dieses Bands liefern zahlreiche neue Perspektiven auf das Verhaeltnis von Stadt und Adel und verdeutlichen, dass es beides gab: Kooperation und Konflikt.

1789年以降のパリの歴史ハンドブック
Olson, Kory / Vincent, Amanda Shoaf / Legacey, E.-M. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789. 358 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-1411>
ISBN 978-1-032-42184-1 hard ¥66,539.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00 *

This handbook assembles a vibrant collection of original scholarship highlighting new and exciting research themes on Paris in the Modern Era. It provides an innovative selection and use of primary sources, broadens the notion of "archive," and includes diverse voices and multiple perspectives.The contributors, representing a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, connect specific topics to larger historical questions and extend consideration of Paris beyond the city's historical limit to the outskirts of the metropolis in the Ile-de-France region. The first section includes overview chapters tracing structural evolutions and broad movements as understood through recent historiography. The second section presents essays that take a narrower focus on case studies and key moments of reflection and debate, change and commemoration through specific sites, social phenomena, cultural objects, movements, and representations of Paris in the arts. The authors explore how Paris has been imagined, constructed, and mythologized from the outside - by tourists, immigrants, and those separate from the circles of power, as well as from within - by political, administrative, and cultural institutions.Geared towards advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and postgraduate researchers, this handbook contributes to readers' understanding of France's place in the world and French society, culture, and policy by telling the story of modern Paris in all its complexity.

Reisinger, Nikolaus / Weigl, Andreas (Hrsg.), Grenzen in der und um die Stadt. (Beitraege zur Geschichte der Staedte Mitteleuropas 31) 384 S. 2024:7 (Studien Vlg., AU) <740-1412>
ISBN 978-3-7065-6387-1 hard ¥12,349.- (税込) EUR 49.90

Zur ?Stadt“ gehoert nahezu zwingend die Frage nach ihren Grenzen. Diese koennen durch physische Barrieren wie Mauern, Waelle, Befestigungsanlagen im Raum sichtbar begruendet und durch die Definition von Rechtsbereichen bestimmt sein, aber auch in Form von ?mental maps“ Stadt und Land trennen. Der Band ?Stadt und Grenze“ verfolgt in einem weiten historischen Bogen urbane Grenzziehungen in Europa von der Spaetantike bis in die Gegenwart. Die versammelten Beitraege widmen sich dem Wandel von Raumkonzepten, den durch das mittelalterliche und fruehneuzeitliche Stadtrecht definierten staedtischen Machtbereich in seiner Beziehung zum Umland, innerstaedtischen politischen und sozialen Grenzen und Grenzziehungen, aber auch den durch das Stadtwachstum des Industriezeitalters geschuldeten Stadterweiterungen mit ihren neu gezogenen Verwaltungsgrenzen zwischen Stadt und Umlandbezirken. Thematisiert werden zudem nicht immer nur an der Stadtperipherie befindliche Grenzraeume der Staedte, sondern schliesslich auch deren vertikale Grenzen. Die vielfaeltigen Formen und Intensitaeten von Grenzziehungen machen deutlich, dass diese durch die mittelalterliche europaeische Stadt mit ihren spezifischen Rechtstraditionen zweifelsohne eine besondere Akzentuierung erfahren haben, welche bis in die Moderne ihre Spuren hinterlassen hat. Sie zeigen jedoch auch, dass verschiedene Formen von Grenzen einem in Gesellschaften bestehenden Beduerfnis nach Komplexitaetsreduktion entsprochen haben duerften, welches keineswegs als rein urbanes Phaenomen zu fassen ist. Mit Beitraegen von Sandor Bekesi, Eva Chod?jovska, Stefan Koechel, Wolfgang Maderthaner, Zdzis?aw Noga, Ferdinand Opll, Peter Payer, Martin Scheutz, Katalin Simon, Rosa Smurra, Harald Tersch, Andreas Weigl und Hans-Peter Weingand.

Brakmann, Thomas / Haverkamp, Michael u. a. (Hrsg.), 75 Jahre Emslandplan: Einblicke in die Geschichte der Emslanderschliessung anhand von 75 Objekten und Dokumenten. 416 S. 2025:4 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <739-896>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5796-9 hard ¥4,950.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Zwischen 1950 und 1989 wurde im Emsland und in der Grafschaft Bentheim der?≫Emslandplan≪ umgesetzt, was die Region nachhaltig praegte. Anhand von 75 Kapiteln werden Einzelepisoden des Programms vorgestellt. Am 5. Mai 1950 nahm der Deutsche Bundestag den Antrag zur ≫Erschliessung der Oedlaendereien des Emslandes≪ einstimmig an. Damit war der ≫Emslandplan≪ geboren, der zwischen 1951 und 1989 durch die eigens zu diesem Zweck gegruendete Emsland GmbH von Meppen aus umgesetzt wurde. Zahlreiche Massnahmen dieses Raumstrukturprogramms haben die Region, zu der vor allem der heutige Landkreis Emsland sowie der Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim gehoeren, gepraegt: Moorkultivierung mit dem Ottomeyer-Pflug, infrastrukturelle Erschliessung des Raums, Modernisierung der Landwirtschaft, Ansiedlung von Industrie und Gewerbe oder die Gruendung des Emslaendischen Heimatbundes bezeichnen nur einige Aspekte dieser Gesamterschliessung. In 75 Einzelkapiteln werden der Emslandplan und seine Auswirkungen dargestellt. Das Buch greift zudem die Erschliessungsmassnahmen vor der Emslandplan-Zeit auf und endet mit Kapiteln ueber die heutige Wahrnehmung des Gesamtprojekts. Zahlreiche Autorinnen und Autoren geben anhand ausgewaehlter Objekte und Dokumente Einblicke in die facettenreiche Bedeutung des Emslandplans.

Caron, Matthieu, Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City. (Studies on the History of Quebec / Etudes d'histoire du Quebec) 328 pp. 2025:5 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <739-897>
ISBN 978-0-228-02477-4 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Sex and jazz, liquor and gambling: Montreal in the early twentieth century was a city that offered an exceptional nighttime scene in North America. By mid-century that scene came under scrutiny, and Montreal's influential mayor Jean Drapeau would be elected for the first time on a reformist platform that promised to end corruption. Over more than three decades, Drapeau would endeavour to transform Montreal into a world-class global city by regulating its nightlife. Montreal After Dark chronicles the spaces where nighttime regulations were enforced and contested. City authorities understood the night as enabling disorder, and they reorganized policing and crafted bylaws to gain control over it. Police and politicians mutually reinforced each other's drive to morally cleanse the urban landscape, especially for international events like Expo 67 and the 1976 Olympics. But in an era of social unrest Drapeau's administration also found itself responding to the protective services' discontent. The political culture of the city was quickly transformed following terrifying nights without their services. Matthieu Caron shows how, in an effort to incorporate the night into the expansionary tendencies of consumer capitalism, municipal authorities took sides in a debate over who had the right to public space at night, what constituted acceptable behaviour or expression, whose sexual activity sustained the social order - and whose threatened to destroy it. In terms that are strikingly familiar today, Montreal After Dark elucidates how the desires of politicians would come to reorganize how consumption and leisure, labour and dissent, noise, sex, and art were lived in Montreal after the sun went down.

競争における大都市－都市計画と都市社会　1890～1940年
Goetz, Cosima, Metropolen im Wettbewerb: Stadtplanung und Stadtgesellschaften 1890-1940. (Moderne Zeit 38) 352 S. 2025:5 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <739-898>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5827-0 hard ¥9,900.- (税込) EUR 40.00

Wie der Stadtraum zum umkaempften Raum wurde und die Idee des ≫Generalplans≪?entstand: ein Panorama der langen Jahrhundertwende. Um 1900 schien sicher: Wer die Zukunft gestalten wollte, musste an den Staedten ansetzen. Mittel der Wahl war dabei vielerorts der internationale staedtebauliche Wettbewerb. Das Verfahren erlebte zwischen den 1890er und den 1930er Jahren eine beispiellose Hochphase. Der Wettbewerb versprach nichts Geringeres als einen ≫Generalplan≪ ? fuer die Anlage von Verkehrswegen, Bau- und Freiflaechen, auch und gerade aber fuer die gesellschaftliche Neuorganisation unter den Bedingungen einer als ≫modern≪ verstandenen Zeit. Cosima Goetz erzaehlt die Geschichte der Wettbewerbe fuer Berlin (1908?1910), Canberra (1911/12), Paris (1919/20) und Ankara (1927?1929) als lebendige transnationale Gesellschafts- und Ideengeschichte fuenf praegender Jahrzehnte. Anhand von vielfaeltigem Material ? darunter zahlreichen bildlichen Quellen ? zeigt sie, wie der Stadtraum durch Wettbewerbe zum umkaempften Raum wurde. Und wie der Versuch, die Konflikte zu beenden, folgenschwere Ideen und Instrumente hervorbrachte.

Hauptmeyer, Carl-Hans, Geschichte Niedersachsens. (C. H. Beck Paperback 6555) 160 S. 2025:3 (Beck, GW) <739-899>
ISBN 978-3-406-83054-9 paper ¥4,455.- (税込) EUR 18.00 *

Dieses Buch, verfasst von einem ausgewiesenen Kenner der Landesgeschichte, zeichnet ein lebendiges Portraet des heutigen Niedersachsen und seiner historischen Wurzeln. Eine informative Einfuehrung in die Geschichte des Bundeslandes von seinen Urspruengen im Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Die regionale Vielfalt Niedersachsens basiert auf historischen Entwicklungen, die bis ins Mittelalter und die Fruehe Neuzeit zurueckreichen. Schon damals verliefen durch den niedersaechsischen Raum wichtige Verbindungswege zwischen den Zentren Europas. Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer zeigt, wie sich heute Vergangenheit und Gegenwart vermischen und portraetiert die erstaunlich wandlungsfaehigen laendlichen Raeume des Landes ebenso wie seine innovativen Metropolregionen.