1st Edition
Transformational Participatory Urbanism Making Do as a Spatial Practice
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements x
1. Introduction: Urban Bricolage: Making Do as Spatial Practice 1
LISKA CHAN AND ELIZABETH STAPLETON
Part I: Discourse 17
2. Making Do Towards a Theory of Practice18
GILLIAN JEIN
3. Shared Margins, Shared Stories: Narratives of Social–Ecological Making Do in Urban Waterways 40
ELIZABETH STAPLETON
4. Building Housing, Constructing Selves and Others: The Case of the Mexican Self-Building Manual since 1930 62
RODRIGO ESCANDON CESARMAN AND SEMINE LONG-CALLESEN
5. Between Curation and Making Do: Participating in the Lives of Urban Markets 73
ED WALL AND EMMA COLTHURST
6. Epoxy Art Group: Alternative Tactics for Artmaking in Chinatown 89
JAYNE COLE SOUTHARD
Part II: Process 104
7. Digging for the Future: Gardening as an Artistic Practice 105
RAECHEL ROOT AND JOSEPH M. SUSSI
8. Becoming of Mud and Ruins 121
BRETT MILLIGAN
9. The Sidewalks Tell Stories 145
GWENDOLYN COHEN
10. Recovering Maintenance: Rapid Response and Slow Evolution 157
MICHEAL GEFFEL
Part III: Engagement 174
11. Reversing the Flow: Reconsidering Sanitation Knowledge Transfer Around the Globe 175
KORY RUSSEL, DANIEL TILLIAS, SEBASTIEN TILMANS, AND SASHA KRAMER
12. Making Do in Times of Crisis: Exploring the Architecture of Solidarity Clinics and Pharmacies in Athens 187
ELISAVET HASA
13. Operating in the ‘Grey Area’: Creating Civic Commons on Private Parking Lots Along Toronto’s Strip Mall Main Streets 202
BRENDAN STEWART
14. Nanji Rice and the Sociospatial Practices of Making Do 226
JEFFREY HOU
Biography
Liska Chan is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. Her research explores the invisible forces that shape landscapes—ecological, cultural, and historical—through critical cartography, sensory practice, and vernacular adaptation. Chan’s work includes writing, land art, and collaborative projects that interrogate perception, spatial justice, and environmental change.
Elizabeth Stapleton is a designer, scholar, and educator, whose work focuses on engaging underrepresented communities in public landscapes. With a background in ecology, her interdisciplinary work explores urban landscapes as social–ecological systems. Her years of experience on applied, community-focused parks planning projects informs and inspires her academic practice.
