Design Activism

Alinsky, Saul D. 1971. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York: Vintage Books.

Architecture for Humanity, ed. 2006. Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Bell, Bryan and Katie Wakeford, eds. 2008. Expanding Architectue: Design as Activism. New York: Metropolis Books.

Bell, Bryan, ed. 2004. Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Bloom, Brett, and Bromberg, Ava, eds. 2004. Belltown Paradise/Making Their Own Plans. Chicago: WhiteWalls, Inc.

Davidoff, David. 1965. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning. Journal of the American Institute of Planners. Reprinted in LeGates, Richard T. and Stout, Frederic, eds. 1996. The City Reader, Second Edition. London and New York: Routledge. 

Diers, Jim. 2004. Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Hatch, Richard, ed. 1984. The Scope of Social Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhard Company.

Hester, Randolph T. 2006. Design for Ecological Democracy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Hester, Randolph T. and Corrina Kweskin, eds. 1999. Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim: Japan, Taiwan and the United States. Mendocino, CA: Ridge Times Press.

Hou, Jeffrey, Mark Francis, and Nathan Brightbill, eds. 2005. (Re)Constructing Communities: Design Participation in the Face of Change. Davis, CA: Center for Design Research, University of California, Davis.

Hou, Jeffrey and Michael Rios. 2003. Community-driven Placemaking: the Social Practice of Participatory Design in the Making of Union Point Park. Journal of Architectural Education.  57 (1): 19-27

Palleroni, Sergio. 2004. Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities. Seattle: University of Washington Press.