"Situated at the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to intervene in the contested space between public and private interests, to design political and civic processes that mediate top-down and bottom-up urban resources, and to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization. Drawn from decades of lived experience, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman engage the San Diego-Tijuana border region as a global laboratory to address the central challenges of urbanization today: deepening social and economic inequality, dramatic migratory shifts, explosive urban informality, climate disruption, the thickening of border walls, and the decline of public thinking."

This book is the second in a two-volume series: 1. Spatializing justice: building blocks and 2. Socializing architecture: top-down / bottom-up.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I: essays -- Conflict is generative -- Informality is praxis -- Co-producing the city with others -- Where is our public imagination? -- A practice of meditation: top-down/ bottom-up -- Section II: projects -- Clusters -- Conflict urbanizations: visualizing the political -- Urbanizations of adaptation: cross-border migrant flows -- Immigrant neighborhoods: housing laboratories -- Bottom-up public: the functional dimension of participation -- Top-down public: designing urban justice -- Decolonizing knowledge and democratizing the city: the UCSD community stations.