Claire Latané is a professor and chair of Cal Poly Pomona’s Landscape Architecture Department, founder of the Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments, and the author of Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind.Jean Yang creates participatory methods—from sticker ethnography to natural pigment extraction—that make spatial power legible through embodied practice. Assistant Professor at SUNY‑ESF, she leads National Endowment for the Arts and National Park Service grants with unhoused communities, refugee farmers, and neighborhoods resisting erasure.

• Foreword. Introduction. Part One: Design for Crisis Response Part One Introduction. 1: A Rapid Crisis Response: The Emergency Schoolyard Design Volunteers 2: Second Responders: Post-Disaster Design Studio 3: Anti-Displacement Studio in Boston Chinatown: Learning Community Stabilization and Neighborhood Preservation 4: Landscape for Humanity: A New Design Education Framework for Environmental Justice Part Two: Relational Infrastructure for Community Care Part Two Introduction. 5: Design Studio as Civic Practice: A Case Study from the Mississippi Gulf Coast 6: Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Education and Design 7: Strengthening Local Ecologies of Care Through Art and Activism in Harlem, NYC 8: Co-Designing Just Transitions: Pedagogies for Regenerative Systems Supporting Community Self-Determination 9: Systems Thinking and Community-First Approaches in Landscape Architecture Education 10: Engage, Collaborate, Design, Activate: An Optimistic Future for the Bridgeport Waterfront 11: Absence Reclaimed: The Regenerative Role of Landscape and Design in Rosewood 12: Sticker-Based Ethnography: Codebooks, Gradients, and Cross-Case Methods for Reading Community Collages Part Three: Long-Term Systemic Change Part Three Introduction. 13: The Pre-Design Seminar: Introducing Design Activism through Engagement, Place, and People. 14: Disrupting Power: Cultivating Critical Reflection in the Design Studio 15: Seeking Landscape Justice:Allensworth, California Rises Again 16: The Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments (CHILE): Tackling Systems Change for k-12 Landscapes 17: A Field Guide to the Elusive Justice-Oriented University, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Institutional Evolution. Conclusion. A Slightly Irreverent Glossary. Index.