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Transformational Participatory Urbanism explores making do as a critical spatial practice at the intersection of spatial justice and creative geography. Through cases from Hong Kong’s Lennon Walls and San Francisco Bay mudflats to containerbased sanitation in Haiti and Toronto’s strip mall parking lots, contributors show how people rework urban space under constraint—through adaptation, care, and resistance. Grounded in de Certeau, Levi-Strauss, Soja, and Haraway, the volume frames making do as urban bricolage: Materially inventive, politically assertive, and speculative about more just futures. Organised in three parts—Discourse, Process, and Engagement—the book ranges from theory to field practice. Essays examine self-build housing manuals in Mexico, tactics of market curation and participation, artistic interventions in Chinatown, gardening as reparative practice, mud and ruins as co-authors of landscape, sidewalk vernaculars, and maintenance as creative care. Engagement chapters consider sanitation knowledge transfer in Haiti, solidarity clinics in Athens, civic commons on private parking lots (plazaPOPS), and Taipei’s Nanji Rice as commoning infrastructure. Together, these chapters foreground situated knowledge, minor tactics, and claims to spatial agency. This book is written for scholars, practitioners, and advanced students in landscape architecture, urban design and planning, architecture, geography, and visual culture as well as civic leaders, nongovernmental organisations, and community organisers seeking low-cost, high-impact approaches to equitable placemaking.

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Liska Chan is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. Her research explores the invisible forces that shape landscapes—ecological, cultural, and historical—through critical cartography, sensory practice, and vernacular adaptation. Chan’s work includes writing, land art, and collaborative projects that interrogate perception, spatial justice, and environmental change. Elizabeth Stapleton is a designer, scholar, and educator, whose work focuses on engaging underrepresented communities in public landscapes. With a background in ecology, her interdisciplinary work explores urban landscapes as social–ecological systems. Her years of experience on applied, community-focused parks planning projects informs and inspires her academic practice.

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