Expanding architecture : design as activism /
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| Imprint: | New York : Metropolis Books, 2008. |
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| Description: | 287 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7476251 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword : Public-interest architecture: a needed and inevitable change / Thomas Fisher
- Preface : Expanding design toward greater relevance / Bryan Bell
- Introduction : An architecture of change / José L.S. Gámez and Susan Rogers
- [I.] Social, economic, and environmental design : The architectural bat-signal: exploring the relationship between justice and design / Barbara B. Wilson
- Toward a humane environment: sustainable design and social justice / Lance Hosey
- El programa de vivienda ecológica: building the capacity of Yaqui women to help themselves / Sergio Palleroni and Mónica Escobedo Fuentes
- Unbearable lightness / Deborah Gans
- [II.] Participatory design : The creek that connects it all: participatory planning in a Taiwanese mountain village / Chia-Ning Yang and Hsu-Jen Kao
- Growing urban habitats: a local housing crisis spawns a new design center / Katie Swenson
- Traditions, transformation, and community design: the making of two Ta'u houses / Jeffrey Hou
- Claiming public space: the case for proactive, democratic design / Peter Aeschbacher and Michael Rios
- [III.] Public-interest architecture : Mobilizing mainstream professional to work for the public good / John Peterson
- The community design collaborative: a volunteer-based community design center serving greater Philadelphia / Darl Rastorfer
- Invisible Zagreb / Damir Blažević
- cityworksLosAngeles: making differences, big or small / Elizabeth Martin and Leslie Thomas
- [IV.] Asset-based approaches : Designing with an asset-based approach / Amanda Hendler-Voss and Seth Hendler-Voss
- COmmunication through inquiry / Sean Donahue
- Designing infrastructure / designing cities / Ryan Gravel
- [v.] Housing for the 98% : Mainstreaming good design in affordable housing: strategies, obstacles, and benefits / Kathleen Dorgan and Deane Evans
- Architectural alchemy / Eric Naslund and John Sheehan
- Competition, collaboration, and construction with Habitat for Humanity / Erik van Mehlman
- Architecture and social change: the struggle for affordable housing in Oakland's uptown project / Alex Salazar
- [VI.] Prefabricating affordability : Migrant housing / Laura Shipman
- Market modular / Gregory Herman
- ecoMOD: exploring social and environmental justice through prefabrication / John Quale
- Out of the box: design innovations in manufactured housing / Roberta M. Feldman
- [VII.] Meshing with market forces : Finding balance: how to be an architect, an environmentalist, and a developer / Russel Katz
- Propositions for a new suburbanism / Gail Peter Borden
- Archepreneurs / Chris Krager
- [VIII.] The transformative power of architectural education : Building a consensus in design/build studios
- Teaching cooperation / Amanda Schachter
- Enhancing family and community through interdisciplinary design / Samina Quraeshi
- Building sustainable communities and building citizens / Sergio Palleroni.
