The architecture of change : building a better world / / edited by Jerilou Hammett and Maggie Wrigley ; [foreword by Michael Sorkin]

• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1/03
• Soggetto topico: Architecture and society; Social change
• Altri autori: HammettJerilou WrigleyMaggie <1958->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Sidewalk Living Rooms""; ""People's Grocery Gets Rolling Through West Oakland""; ""Hip-Hop High Gives Dropouts a Second Chance""; ""Power to the People: Little Village Hunger Strike Yields New High School""; ""The Cure for Homelessness is Housing""; ""Writings on the Healing Walls""; ""Disguise: Going Undercover to Experience Life as an Elder""; ""Design/Build Program Broadens Experience""; ""ONE DC""; ""The Village of Arts and Humanities: An Interview with Lily Yeh"" ; ""A School as Big as New York City""""Interfaith Community Building Group""; ""Voices of Opposition""; ""Power of the Purse""; ""Bullet Space: Home as an Act of Resistance""; ""Let Us Now Praise the Women of Wentworth""; ""Doug Young: A Critical Urbanist Looks at the Global City""; ""Whose History Is It, Anyway?""; ""Putting a Face on Hunger""; ""Barefoot Artists""; ""Home Is Where the House Is: Rebuilding Communities by Building Houses""; ""Baltimore Block Builder: Reclaiming the Inner City One Street at a Time""; ""From An Acorn New Communities Grow""; ""Radical Builders in the Bronx"" ; ""Chicago Museum to Feature the History of Public Housing""""Rosie's Girls Show What Girl Power Is About""; ""Behind the Blue Suit""; ""Marking the Places that Matter""; ""Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: An Interview with Fredda Vladeck""; ""Healing Community Through Play""; ""Self-Help Housing""; ""It Takes a Community to Raise a Family""; ""Community Without Walls Builds Community Among Seniors""; ""The Evolution of Universal Design""; ""The Best Little Trailer House in Kansas""; ""Am I Old Yet?""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Back Cover""
• Sommario/riassunto: "The anthology reprints thirty-six articles from DESIGNER/builder magazine as case studies, highlighting creative individuals and their contributions to innovative housing, neighborhood revitalization, alternative education, public art, and community empowerment through architectural design, and helping students, scholars, and community organizations understand that it is possible to integrate the principle of social justice into the built environment"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: The architecture of change
• ISBN: 0-8263-5386-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823107403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II