A manifesto calling for a new kind of architecture that confronts
social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
Spatializing
Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than
design buildings and physical systems. Architects should take a
position against inequality and practice accordingly. With these
thirty short, manifesto-like texts--building blocks for a new kind of
architecture--Spatializing Justice offers a practical handbook
for confronting social and economic inequality and uneven urban
growth in architectural and planning practice, urging practitioners
to adopt approaches that range from redefining infrastructure to
retrofitting McMansions.
These building
blocks call for expanded modes of practice, through which architects
can imagine new spatial procedures, political and economic
strategies, and modalities of sociability. Challenging existing
exclusionary policies can advance a more experimental architecture
not bound by formal parameters. Architects must think of themselves
as designers not only of things but of civic processes, complicate
the ideas of ownership and property, and imagine new sites of
research, pedagogy, and intervention. As one of the texts advises,
"The questions must be different questions if we want different
answers."
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