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584 p. : ill. ; maps ; col. ; 24 cm. With a focus on deepening inequality across the world, this richly illustrated monograph of social practice in architecture shows how to catalyze productive change in the world's border regions. Situated at the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to intervene in the contested space between public and private interests, to design political and civic processes that mediate top-down and bottom-up urban resources, and to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization. Drawn from decades of lived experience, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman engage the San Diego-Tijuana border region as a global laboratory to address the central challenges of urbanization today: deepening social and economic inequality, dramatic migratory shifts, explosive urban informality, climate disruption, the thickening of border walls, and the decline of public thinking. Socializing Architecture follows Spatializing Justice (Cruz and Forman, 2022). It is organized into two main sections--essays and projects--and continues to build a compelling case for architects and urban designers to do more than design buildings and physical systems. Through analysis and diverse case studies, the authors show architects and urbanists how to alter the exclusionary policies that produce public crisis and instead realize new political and economic strategies that advance a more equitable and convivial architecture Section I: essays: Conflict is generative -- Informality is praxis -- Co-producing the city with others -- Where is our public imagination? -- A practice of meditation: top-down/ bottom-up -- Section II: projects: Clusters: Conflict urbanizations: visualizing the political -- Urbanizations of adaptation: cross-border migrant flows -- Immigrant neighborhoods: housing laboratories -- Bottom-up public: the functional dimension of participation -- Top-down public: designing urban justice -- Decolonizing knowledge and democratizing the city: the UCSD community stations -- Notes -- Image Credits -- Acknowledgements -- Colophon -- Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. "Situated at the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to intervene in the contested space between public and private interests, to design political and civic processes that mediate top-down and bottom-up urban resources, and to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization. Drawn from decades of lived experience, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman engage the San Diego-Tijuana border region as a global laboratory to address the central challenges of urbanization today: deepening social and economic inequality, dramatic migratory shifts, explosive urban informality, climate disruption, the thickening of border walls, and the decline of public thinking." This book is the second in a two-volume series: 1. Spatializing justice: building blocks and 2. Socializing architecture: top-down / bottom-up. Includes bibliographical references. Architecture Human factors Architecture and society City planning City planning Case studies Architecture and society Architecture Human factors NA2542.4 C787 2022 720.1/03 9780262545181 0262545187 pucpr 220208 20240916162700.0 eng