Architecture and Social Sustainability shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large.With chapters exploring both the urban and the building scale, this volume examines the design of buildings and urban settings to illustrate how we can create more inclusive and equitable communities through broadening our design approach. Tracing how the professionalization of architecture and urban design have shut out stakeholder input, this book offers a range of methods and theoretical ideas to re-tool the design process for better social sustainability. The book illustrates these concepts through a series of case studies that have worked around systemic inequalities, recaptured stakeholder voices, and helped promote spatial and social justice. Case studies look at reparative urban and landscape design the United States, informal market structures in Nigeria, co-designed housing for low-income communities in India and Brazil, and participatory design for housing, schools, and healthcare facilities in Europe and the U.K. Essential reading for architects and urban designers seeking alternatives to conventional practice, as well as educators and students incorporating social sustainability as a foundational design concept, Architecture and Social Sustainability ties together design thinking and action to show architectures potential for social change.
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This book shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large. Essential reading for architects and urban designers, as well as educators and students incorporating social sustainability as a foundational design concept.
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 Georgias 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 Orleanss
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 (19932003), Ekostaden Augustenborg (19982002),
and Marmalade Lane Co-Housing (20062018) 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
Alexandra Staub is a professor of Architecture and an affiliate faculty of Penn States 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).
