Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities.

End the design of execution chambers
and spaces for solitary confinement!

Architecture faculty-- join the call for AIA to stand for human rights by  ending the design of execution chambers and spaces for solitary confinement!

Best Projects from 50 Years of Citizen-Engaged Community Development

Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building

by Roger Katan with Ron Shiffman

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A Modern Parable of Peace for All Ages

Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty

by Anne Herbert and M. Paloma Pavel, illustrated by Mayumi Oda

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Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit

From Foreclosure to Fair Lending

edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires

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Interventions for Divided Cities

Urban Alchemy
by Mindy Thompson Fullilove

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Freedom of Assembly and Public Space

Beyond Zuccotti Park
edited by Ron Shiffman, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Lynne Elizabeth

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
ADPSR National and NorCal
PO Box 9126
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-845-1000

ADPSR Publishing
New Village Press
400 Central Park West, 12-B
New York, NY 10025
510-717-3101

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"Love your neighbor as yourself. In so doing, an architect will act on a foundation of decency that can be built upon. Help those who aren’t likely to help you in return, and do so even if nobody is watching!"
—Samuel Mockbee, quoted in Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio