Below is a preliminary list of books. Have any to add? let me know via ann [at] designactivism [dot] net. I should mention that this list purposefully does not include books on sustainable design. Selfishly I’ve left those off because I’m more familiar with them. More later…
Bell, Bryan. 2004. Good deeds, good design : community service through architecture. 1st ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Charlesworth, Esther Ruth. 2006. Architects without Frontiers : War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility. Amsterdam ; Boston: Architectural Press.
Dovey, Kim. 1999. Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form. Edited by T. A. Markus and A. D. King, The Architext Series. London: Routledge.
Lasn, Kalle. 2006. Design Anarchy. Vancouver, B.C.: Adbusters Media Foundation.
Leach, Neil. 1999. Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe. London ; New York: Routledge.
Papanek, Victor J. 1982. Design for the Real World : Human Ecology and Social Change. Frogmore, [Eng.]: Paladin.
Rothschild, Joan, and Alethea Cheng. 1999. Design and feminism : re-visioning spaces, places, and everyday things. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Sinclair, Cameron, Kate Stohr, and Architecture for Humanity (Organization). 2006. Design like you give a damn : architectural responses to humanitarian crises. London: Thames & Hudson.
Smith, Cynthia E., and Cooper-Hewitt Museum. 2007. Design for the other 90%. 1st ed. New York: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Organization.
Whiteley, Nigel. 1993. Design for society. London and Seattle, Wash.: Reaktion Books.
