As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable development.

As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable development.

Introduction: Place as Marginality and Possibility; S.E.Sutton  & S.P.Kemp PART I: PLACE, RACE, AND POWER Place: A Site of Social and Environmental Inequity; S.E.Sutton  & S.P.Kemp Struggling for the Right to Housing: A Critical Analysis of the Evolution of West Seattle's High Point; S.E.Sutton The Ultimate Team Sport?: Urban Waterways and Youth Rowing in Seattle, Washington; A.T.Wessells Recognizing the Lived Experience of Place: Challenges to Genuine Participation in Redeveloping Public Housing Communities; L.C.Manzo Beyond Insiders and Outsiders: Conceptualizing Multiple Dimensions of Community Development Stakeholders; L.H.Ishem PART II: PLACEMAKING AS LIVING DEMOCRACY Place: A Site of Individual and Collective Transformation; S.E.Sutton  & S.P.Kemp Refusing Marginality: Youth as Critical Placemakers in Urban Communities; S.P.Kemp Supporting Grassroots Resistance: Sustained Community/University Partnerships to Contest Chicago's HOPE VI Program; R.M.Feldman Mutual Learning in a Community-University Partnership: What Design-Build Projects Contribute to Placemaking and Placemakers; S.Badanes PART III: NEW TOOLS, NEW PROFESSIONAL ROLES Transforming Communities through Mapping: Harnessing the Potential of New Technologies; A.Hillier On the Social Construction of Place: Using Participatory Methods and Digital Tools to Reconceive Distressed Urban Neighborhoods; M.Kelley Documenting (In) Justice: Community-based Participatory Research and Video; C.Cahill  & M.Bradley Socially Conscious Design in the Information Age: The Practice of an Architecture for Humanity; D.Smolker  & C.Lanza Conclusions: Toward a Praxis of Transformative Placemaking; S.E.Sutton  & S.P.Kemp