Architectures of Spatial Justice

Dana Cuff is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director and Founder of cityLAB at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also the leader of the Urban Humanities Initiative. She is the author of Architecture: The Story of Practice and The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism (both published by the MIT Press).

1 Architecture at the Heart of Spatial Justice 1

2 Leveraging Design 19
Backyard Homes, CityLab, California

3 Radically Public Architecture 75
Rebuilding Community after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Archiaid and Toyo Ito and Associates, East Japan

4 Partnerships of Difference 127
Double Sights, Hood Design Studio, Princeton University, New Jersey

5 Generative Demonstrations 159
Half-Houses at Quinta Monroy, Elemental, Santiago, Chile

6 Legible Policy 189
Peatoninos, Laboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico City

7 Critical Junctures 219
Bruinhub at UCLA, CityLab, Los Angeles

8 Conclusion: Architecture's Practical Future 253

Acknowledgments 259
Notes 263
Index 281