1st Edition
Architecture and Social Sustainability Understanding the New Paradigm
Introduction
Alexandra Staub
Part 1
Alexandra Staub
1.1 Historical Context: The Professionalization of Architecture and Urban Design
1.2 Ethical Practice: Involving Stakeholders in Shaping the Built Environment
1.3 Architecture and the Ethics of Sustainability
1.4 Shifting Our Theoretical Thinking
Part 2
2.1 Design on the Side of Transformational Change: The Destination Design School and Georgia’s Black Belt
Interview with Euneika Rogers-Sipp
2.2 Framing the Commons: Starting Small
Yang Yang, Gus Wendel, and Claire Nelischer
2.3 Topographies of Sustainability in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward
Anna Livia Brand
2.4 Market Publics in Urban Africa: Reading Self-Organized Spaces of Exchanges and Material Flows at Onitsha Markets in Nigeria
Chukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka
2.5 Taking Matters into Their Own Hands: The Vauban Housing Community (1993–2003), Ekostaden Augustenborg (1998–2002), and Marmalade Lane Co-Housing (2006–2018)
Alexandra Staub
2.6 Community Engagement in Low-Income Housing in Brazil: A Pathway to Social Sustainability
Clarissa Albrecht, Maristela Siolari, Hung Luong, and Esther Goldberg Karfunkelstein Lima
2.7 Building Thousands of Communities, Not Millions of Homes: A Participatory Approach Toward Transforming Informal Settlements in India
Sandhya Naidu Janardhan and Sandra Alexander
2.8 Participatory Design Processes in Architecture
Interview with Susanne Hofmann
2.9 The Baupiloten: Creating Participatory and Socially Sustainable Architecture
Susanne Hofmann
2.10 “For Space” in Healthcare Co-Design: Relational Thinking, Ontological Design, and Sustainable Futuring
Sara Donetto
Biography
Alexandra Staub is a professor of Architecture and an affiliate faculty of Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute. Alexandra is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender (2018) and author of Conflicted Identities: Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation (Routledge, 2015).
