Books



Aquilino, M. (2011), Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity

Architecture for Humanity (2012), Design Like you Give a Damn: Building Change from the Ground Up

Awan, N., Schneider,T., and Till, J. (2011), Spatial Agency: other ways of doing architecture

Baker, J. (2012), Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor- Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World

Bell, B (2008), Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

Bell. B. (2003), Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture

Benjamin Barber (2013) If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

Boo, K. (2012), Behind the beautiful forevers

Brigham, C. (2009), Enabling Good Deeds in Design: How can Architects provide Community Service as part of their practice?

Brillembourg, A. Reireiss, K., Klumpner, H. (2005), Informal City: Caracas Case

Cary, J. (ed.) (2010), The Power of Pro Bono

Celik, A., Zyman. R. and Mahdi, M. (eds) (2009), Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age

Cooke, B. and Kuthari, U. (eds) (2002), Participation: The New Tyranny

Davis, M. (2006), Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class

Dodd, M., Harrison, P., Charlesworth, E. (2012), Live Projects: Designing with People

Fals Borda, O. (ed.) (1986), The Challenge of Social Change

Frediani, A. A., French, M. A. and Nunez Ferrera, I. (2011), Change by design: building communities through participatory design

Friere, P. (1970), Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Friere, P. (1974), Education for Critical Consciousness

Global Studio Resources

Hamdi, N. (1996), Educating for Real

Hamdi, N. (2004), Small Change: About the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities

Hamdi, N. (2010), The Placemakers Guide to Building Community

Hamdi, N., and Goethart, R. (1997), Action Planning for Cities

Harber, A. (2011), Diepsloot

Harvey, D. (2012), Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

HDR Report (2011), Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

Hickey, S., and Mohan, G. (eds) (2004), Participation : From Tyranny to Transformation

Huchzemyer, M. (2004), Unlawful occupation: informal settlements and urban policy in South Africa and Brazil

Huzchemeyer, M. (2011), Cities with ‘Slums’: From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa

Indra, S. (2009), Animal’s People: A Novel

International Institute for Environment and Development (2002), Environment and Urbanization

Johnson, C. (2011), Indian Cities: Managing Urban Growth

Lefebvre, H. (1968), The Right to the City

Lepik, A. (2010), Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement

Mahadevia, D. (2008), Inside the Transforming Urban Asia – Processes, Policies and Public Actions

Mandela, N. (1995), Long Walk to Freedom

Marcuse P. et al (2009), Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Planning and Theory

Mehta S. (2004), Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Miessen, M. (2010), The Nightmare of Participation

Naomi Klein (2014) This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

Neuwirth R. (2004), Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World

Neuwirth R. (2012), Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy

Palleroni, S. (2004), Studio at large: architecture in service of global communities

Pholeros, P. (1993), Housing for Health

Pierce, N. and Johnson, C. (2009), Century of the City: No Time to Lose

Pieterse, E. (2008), City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban development

Rosenzweig, C. et al (2011), Climate Change and Cities

Roy, A. (2010), Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Sachs, J. (2005), The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Sanoff, H. (1999), Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning

Schiffman, R., Bell, R. Brown, L. Elizabeth,L. (eds) (2012), Beyond Zucotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation on Public Space

Sclar, E., Garau, P., Carolini, G. (2005), A Home in the City

Sclar, E., Vloavvka-Close, N., Brown, P. (eds) (2012), The Urban Transformation: Health, Shelter and Climate Change

Sen, A., (1999), Development as Freedom

Smith C. (2007), Design for the other 90%

Smith C. (2011), Design with the other 90%

Steffen, A. (2011), World Changing: A Users Guide for the 21st Century

Stiglitz, J. (2012), The Price of Inequality

Turner, J. (1974), Housing by People: towards autonomy in building environments

UN Habitat (2010), State of the World’s Cities 2010-2011

UN Habitat (2011), Cities and Climate Change

Urban Design Studio, Columbia University (2012), Urban Development in Accra Ghana

Urban Think Tank (2012), Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities


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