New Village Press
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. — W.B. Yeats
New Village Press, the publishing arm of ADPSR, specializes in books about urban ecology, community-based arts, environmental and social justice, and citizen-initiated activism. New Village brings the world inspiration and practical ideas for building healthy, just communities and vibrant cultures. We are commited to creating inclusive, sustainable, and joyful environments through our publications.
New Village Press is the first publisher to serve the fields of grassroots community building and community cultural development. Our titles provide design professionals, cultural workers, artists, community development practitioners, educators, scholars, and citizens at large with a deeper understanding of critical issues, and with noteworthy models of inventiveness emerging from self-organizing communities. We specialize in works that encourage new and better-informed connections among groups coming from disparate sectors—between academics and citizen activists or between artists and city planners, to name a few examples. Our books bring the classroom into the community, and provide a forum for authors and readers to explore creative solutions to seemingly intractable social, environmental, and economic problems.
Our new book in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement:
Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Spaces
edited by Ron Shiffman, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Lynne Elizabeth with Anastassia Fisyak and Anusha Venkataraman
Take a look at some of our other newest titles!
Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries
edited by Tom Angotti, Cheryl Doble and Paula Horrigan
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker
Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities
Awakening Creativity
by Lily Yeh
Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation
by Sharon Gamson Danks
American Tensions
edited by William Reichard
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities.
