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Why do we need a definition of social sustainability?
Three Es, one of them is the king, in the field of sustainability (no one ever asks, wait do you mean Environmental Sustainability?) Economics is the next most important, especially when it is in the...
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What have the planners done and what can the architects learn?
Scholars in the planning, policy, and development realms have honed some great definitions and theories of socially sustainable development. Stephen McKenzie has done extensive work coalescing the...
View ArticleSocial Sustainability defined for Architecture
These planning theories have been helpful in drawing attention to the discrepancy between social and environmental sustainability, but they are at a scale that makes them difficult to apply to...
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The Balance between the Individual and the Collective
What buildings do you think are especially good at forging a balance between the individual and the collective? Two that I think of are Herman Hertzberger’s Apollo School and the Pike Place Market....
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The balance between the present and the future
To achieve this balance, architects design flexible and adaptable building systems in order to create buildings that will work in the future as well as they do in the present. This balance occurs when...
View ArticleUpdate on ARC-Peace
The ARC-Peace ASF meeting in Copenhagen was a success. Please check the ARC-Peace Newsletter #33 on www.ARC-Peace.org Members of ARC-Peace and ASF (Architects Sans Frontieres) came from all over the...
View ArticleForging Connection
Connectivity has myriad architectural solutions, both between occupants and between occupants and the outside community. There are numerous examples of centripetal space, often seen in circulation...
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Enterprise hosts Housing Design Institute
Parsons School of Design is the site for this year's Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. Seven development projects in conceptual design were chosen to be guided and encouraged by a team...
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Sharon Danks' Asphalt to Ecosystems Honored by American Society of Landscape...
New Village Press is excited to announce that longtime ADPSR member Sharon Danks' book Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation received ASLA 2012 Professional Award in...
View ArticleSocial Design in the Ivory Tower
Today’s design students are more interested in having an impact on the lives of others than any previous generation. Frustrated with decades of brand-name architects with little or no social agenda in...
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Jeffery Hou Published in Design Observer/Places
ADPSR board member Jeffery Hou's essay on civic action was just published in DesignObserver/Places. The essay is an excerpt from his chapter in Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the...
View ArticleWork Hard / Play Hard Tech Spaces
Once upon a time people engaged in social progress assumed that the forty-hour workweek was only a waystation on the path to an economy of full employment, rising wages, and ever increasing leisure...
View ArticleLaunching AIA Ethics Reform Petition
I’m excited to announce that ADPSR is launching an effort to ask the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to amend their Code of Ethics to prohibit the design of spaces intended for torture or...
View ArticleEconomics of a Healthy Community
In the recent past, strategies for ‘urban revitalization’ put sports stadiums as a catalyst for local investment, particularly in real estate. Minute Maid Park in Houston, whose main entrance is an...
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Prisons as a good neighbor?
It seems that in our major cities everyone from developers to average neighbors would object to a new prison opening next door to their home. We all know that having a prison next door drives down...
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Nonviolence works - a Security Studies perspective
While many if not all ADPSR members support nonviolence as the “right” way to challenge injustice, the new book “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict” by Maria...
View ArticleWe are the Experts
Why is it that the U.S. is exporting our prison designs to Latin American countries, such as Colombia, Mexico, and now Haiti? To my amazement, the rationale has now shifted. In the drug war framework,...
View ArticleCommunity centers as antitdote to violence
ADPSR's Alternatives to Incarceration campaign has long advocated for the building of more community infrastructure -- as well as more deucational, cultural, and economic opoprtunity in general -- as...
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Envisioning a Healthy FREE LA a Success!
On March 30, ADPSR helped host and facilitate "Envisioning a Healthy FREE LA: Community Solutions Not Jail Expansion," a free community workshop in Los Angeles. The event was an opportunity for...
View Article99% Invisible / Life of the Law podcasts cover our story
I’m excited and honored to have two amazing podcasts working together to present a thoughtful investigation into the human rights questions ADPSR is raising with our AIA Ethics campaign. Their story,...
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