The Routledge companion to architecture and social engagement / edited by Farhan Karim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Monumentality and insurgency / Arvind Rajagopal - Introduction: architecture and social engagement / Farhan Karim - Postscript: How and when architecture was socialy engaged? / Simon Sadler --
Part I. Engagement as Discourse. 1. What If ... or Toward a Progressive Understanding of Socially Engaged Architecture / By Tatjana Schneider - 2. Understanding Social Engagement in Architecture: Toward Situated Embodied and Critical Accounts / By Isabelle Doucet - 3. Toward an Architecture of the Public Good / By Tom Spector - 4. Radical Democracy and Spatial Practices / By Tahl Kaminer - Part II. Targets of Engagement. 5. Retracing the Emergence of a Human Settlements Approach: Designing in, from and With Contexts of Development / By Viviana d'Auria - 6. The United Nations and Self-Help Housing in the Tropics / ByNancy Kwak - 7. Tracing the History of Socially Engaged Architecture: School Building as Development Aid in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa / By Kim De Raedt - 8. The Opera Village Africa: Christoph Schlingensief and His Social Sculpture / By Susanne Bauer - 9. Seeking Appropriate Methods: The Role of Public-Interest Design Advocacy in the High Himalaya / By Carey Clouse - Part III. Structures of Engagement. 10. Reconceiving Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century / By Nils Gore - 11. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Social Engagement via the Built Environment / By Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Mohammad Gharipour --
12. Sale Ends Soon: Epistemological Alternatives to Flying Architects / By Ijlal Muzaffar - 13. Creating the Environment for Social Engagement: The Experience of Venezuela / By Carlos Reimers - Part IV. Subjects of Engagement. - 14. Housing for Spatial Justice: Building Alliances between Women Architects and Users / By Ipek Türeli - 15. Children's Engagement in Design: Reflections from Research and Practice / By Matluba Khan - 16. The Garden of Liberation: Emptiness and Engagement at Suan Mokkh, Chaiya / By Lawrence Chua - 17. The Darker Side of Social Engagement / By Yutaka Sho - Part V. Tectonics of Engagement.--18. A Comparative History of Live Projects within the United States and the UK: Key Characteristics and Contemporary Implications / By Harriet Harriss - 19. The Do-It-Your (Self): The Construction of Social Identity through DIY Architecture and Urbanism / By Cathy Smith - 20. Building the Unseen: A Shift to a Socially Engaged Architecture Education / By R. Todd Ferry - Part VI. Environmental Engagement. - 21. Umdenken Umschwenken: Environmental Engagement and Swiss Architecture / By Kim Förster - 22. Material Participation and the Architecture of Domestic Autonomy / By Lee Stickells - 23. Salvage Salvation: Counterculture Trash as a Cultural Resource / By Greg Castillo - Part VII. Mapping Engagement. - 24. Marginality, Urban Conflict and the Pursuit of Social Engagement in Latin American Cities / By Felipe Hernández - 25. Understanding Public Interest Design: A Conceptual Taxonomy / By Joongsub Kim - 26. Architecture before 3.11: Unspoken Social Architecture during the Blank 25 Years of Japan / By Tamotsu Ito - 27. The Reciprocity between Architects and Social Change: Taiwan Experience after the 1990s / By Chun-Hsiung Wang - 28. Transforming the Spatial Legacies of Colonialism and Apartheid: Participatory Practice and Design Agency in Southern Africa / By Iain Low --
Part VIII. Engagement in Emergency. - 29. What We Can Learn From Refugees / By Thomas Fisher - 30. Displacement, Labor and Incarceration: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Genealogy of Camps / By Anoma Pieris - 31. Are Architects the Last People Needed in Disaster Reconstruction? / By Mojgan Taheri Tafti, David O'Brien - 32. Architecture without Borders?: The Globalization of Humanitarian Architecture Culture / By Shawhin Roudbari.