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Social Justice and the Built Environment

This guide provides resources for researching about and engaging with issues involving social justice and the built environment.

Researching Native American/First Nations/Indigenous & the Built Environment

WHERE ARE MY PEOPLE? NATIVE AMERICAN, FIRST NATIONS & INDIGENOUS in ARCHITECTURE
Who are the indigenous peoples of North America? How do they engage with the built environment? How is Indigenous design different than what is traditionally taught in school or built in practice? Why is it that the original inhabitants of this land have limited access to resources? Let’s start with the history.

Learning country in landscape architecture : indigenous knowledge systems, respect and appreciation by David S Jones (David Sydney)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9789811588761
Publication Date: 2021
Old Stories, New Ways: conversations about an architecture inspired by Indigenous ways of knowing by Vivian Manasc; Frits Pannekoek (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA749.5.A54 M36 2020
ISBN: 9781550598629
Publication Date: 2020
Our Voices: indigeneity and architecture by Rebecca Kiddle (Editor); luugigyoo patrick stewart (Editor); Kevin O'Brien (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA2543.A58 K54 2018
ISBN: 9781940743493
Publication Date: 2018
Our Voices II by Kevin O'Brien (Editor); Patrick Stewart (Editor); Rebecca Kiddle (Editor)
Call Number: ARCH LIB Stacks NA2543.A58 K542 2021
ISBN: 9781943532568
Publication Date: 2021
White Papers, Black Marks by Lesley Lokko (Editor)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA2543.R37 W495 2000
ISBN: 9780485004021
Publication Date: 2000

Researching Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Creators & Architecture

Aboriginal Architecture
virtual tour of seven Aboriginal communities — Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish and Haida

The Greater Chaco Landscape by Ruth M. Van Dyke (Editor); Carrie C. Heitman (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1646421698
Publication Date: 2021
lo--TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson; W--E studio (Designed by); Taschen (f) (Designed by)
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks NA208 .W38 2019
ISBN: 9783836578189
Publication Date: 2019
Indigenous cultural centers and museums : an illustrated international survey by Anoma Pieris
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1442264071
Publication Date: 2016
New Architecture on Indigenous Lands by Joy Monice Malnar; Frank Vodvarka
Call Number: Arch Lib Stacks OVERSZ NA2543.A58 M35 2013
ISBN: 9780816677443
Publication Date: 2013

Browsing the Architecture Library

Architecture in:

United States - Native American - NA 738.A4
Canada - First Nations - NA 749.5.A54

Architecture and Anthropology - NA 2543.A58

History-Indians of North American - E71-100