Expanding architecture: design as activism

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.