Questioning how design can improve daily lives, more than thirty essays by practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects and environmental designers illuminate an emerging geography of architectural activism and suggest the many ways that design can address issues of social justice

• Public-interest arachitecture: a needed and inevitable change Thomas Fisher
• Bryan Bell
• Jose L.S. Gamez and Susan Rogers
• Barbara B. Wilson
• Lance Hosey
• Sergio Palleroni and Monica Escobedo Fuentes
• Deborah Gans
• Chia-ning Yang and Hsu-Jen Kao
• Katie Swenson
• Jeffrey Hou
• Peter Aeschbacher and Michael Rios
• John Peterson
• Darl Rastorfer
• Damir Blazevic
• Elizabeth martin and Leslie Thomas
• Amanda Hendler-Voss and Seth Hendler-Voss
• Sean Donahue
• Ryan Gravel
• Kathleen Dorgan and Deane Evans
• Eric Naslund and John Sheehan
• Erik Van Mehlman
• Alex Salazar
• Laura Shipman
• Gregory Herman
• John Quale
• Roberta M. Feldman
• Russell Katz
• Gail Peter Borden
• Chris Krager
• Steve Badanes
• Amanda Schachter
• Sammina Quraeshi
• Sergio Palleroni Expanding design toward greater relevance A architecture of change The architectural bat-signal: exploring the relationship between justice and design Toward a humane environment: sustainable design and social justice El programa de vivienda ecologica: building the capacity of yaqui women to help themselevs Unbearable lightness The creek that connects it all: participatory planning in a Taiwanese mountain village Growing urban habitats: a local housing crisis spawns a new design center Traditions, transformation, and community design: the making of two ta'u houses Claiming public space: the case for proactive, democratic design Mobilizing Mainstream professionals to work for the public good The community design collaborative: a volunteer-based community design center serving greater Philadelphia Invisible zagreb cityworksLosAngeles: making differences, big or small Designing with an asset-based approach communication through inquiry Designing infrastructure/ designing cities Mainstreaming good design in affordable housing: strategies, obstacles, and benefits Architectural alchemy Competition, collaboration, and construction with habitat for humanity Architecture and social change: the struggle for affordable housing in Oaklands uptown project Migrant housing Market modular ecoMOD: exploring social and environmental justice through prefabrication Out of the box: design innovations in manufactured housing Finging balance: how to be an architect, and environmentalist, and a developer Propositions for a new suburbanism Archepreneurs Building consensus in design/build studios Teaching cooperation Enhancing family and community through interdisciplinary design Building sustainable communities and building citizens