Paradox of Urban Space

SHARON E. SUTTON is a Professor in the Department of Agriculture at the University of Washington, USA. SUSAN P. KEMP is the Charles O. Cressey Endowed Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington, USA.

"Sutton and Kemp provide a renewed understanding of the role of placemaking in the struggle for racial justice. They offer a way forward beyond paralyzing debate on reshaping our cities and regions, with new tools and roles for community and city building professionals. This is a profoundly hopeful book ... picks up where Jane Jacobs left off." - Carl Anthony, Breakthrough Communities "The Paradox of Urban Space makes a great leap forward in our theorizing about place. Through scholarly explorations of marginalization and resistance, this book opens up the transformative actions that might relieve us of the universal burdens of oppression. It deserves careful reading by all concerned about the future of our cities and our democracy." - Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

• 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