Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across disciplines and geographies; critical and creative provocations between the tactical and the systemic, for positive change and urban liveability.

Brings together experts from diverse disciplines to encourage more nuanced architectural and urban action Responds to the contemporary imperative for focused, creative and sustainable solutions to pressing urban problems Documents a global range of cases from Australia, Africa, Asia, US, Europe, South America and the Middle East

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Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Suzanne Ewing is Professor of Architectural Criticism in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at The University of Edinburgh, UK.

Lily Chi is Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University, USA.

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Seeding Urban Transformation is a bold provocation to leverage the agency of small design acts emerging from cracks in the urban realm, exploring how individual tactics incite strategic and systemic change. With this rich global compendium of acupunctural design actions, often emerging from everyday actors, the authors allow us to imagine the tactical possibilities of a truly radical urban ecology: these metaphorical seeds might become networked, rhizomatic, implementing much-needed repair from the ground up.

Professor Catherine Seavitt , Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism, Chair, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

This collection transcends disciplinary boundaries, telling a powerful story of how minor interventions in heterogeneous urban spaces can seed transformative futures. Essential reading for anyone seeking alternatives to large-scale development thinking, offering a roadmap for reimagining processes and spaces of urban life.

Professor Tahl Kaminer , Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Cardiff University, UK.

Full of interesting insights into how tactical urbanism might become something more than the sum of its parts. Urging us to start in the middle, this edited collection works with rather than against the tensions and politics of urban life while not forgetting the importance of viewing technology not as panacea but as hack or glitch in the system.

Professor Nishat Awan , Professor of Architecture and Visual Culture, University College London, UK.

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across disciplines and geographies; critical and creative provocations between the tactical and the systemic, for positive change and urban liveability.

Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney, Australia.

Suzanne Ewing is Professor of Architectural Criticism in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at The University of Edinburgh, UK.

Lily Chi is Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University, USA.

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Part 1: Tactical Engagements.- Chapter 1: Architectural Silence in a 'Vibrant' City: The Garage as a Clearing.- Chapter 2: It's not sexy stuff: Incremental urban improvement in central Johannesburg.- Chapter 3: Fluid Commons: Towards Infrastructures of Production and Care in the.- Chapter 4: On Ditching: Towards Tactical Grounding in the Black Dirt.- Part 2: Seminal Technologies.- Chapter 5: Harnessing New Frameworks for Spatial Equity and New Spatial Assets: A Harlem Study.- Chapter 6: The Hack: Disrupting and Seeding Change.- Chapter 7: The Violence of the Off-scenes: The Gap Between the Petroleum Production and Consumption.- Part 3: Strategic Events.- Chapter 8: Urban Seeding as Multispecies Politics: Louis Le Roy's Ecocathedral.- Chapter 9: A Design Perspective of Participatory Placemaking With(in) Publics and Places.- Chapter 10: Planting Communities: Small Urban Green Spaces as a Socio-Spatial Infrastructural Strategy in Taipei City.- Chapter 11: Conversation with Natura Futura.- Part 4: Systemic change.- Chapter 12: Encounters in the Urban Mesocosm: Charting entanglements between humans and nonhumans in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.- Chapter 13: Minor Infrastructuralism.- Chapter 14: The Logistic Time of Unsettlement.- Chapter 15: Public Spaces Reimagined: The Influence of Minor Urbanism.