Public Scholarship (Selected)
燈光美、氣氛佳：私有化中的東京開放空間？Daodi道地. December 20, 2023
From Resistance to Resilience. Medium, December 2, 2023
From Urban Commons to Rural-Urban Commoning. Medium, July 26, 2023
Placemaking without Borders. Medium, May 27, 2023
Field Notes on Design Activism: 2. Places Journal, November 4, 2022
公有資產，公民審議！如何讓施洛德文學公園們不失落. 眼底城事. October 14, 2022
當設計不再只服務權勢 When Design No Longer Serves Just the Powerful. Medium, July 5, 2022.
Listening/Building/Learning: A Roundtable Discussion. Taiwan Architecture. June 2022.
不義地景與正義長弧：公民與專業者如何面對中正紀念堂這一題. 眼底城事. February 25, 2022.
Ghostly Cities, Asian Urbanism. Medium, October 30, 2021
Decolonizing Landscape Architecture Education (Part 1). The Field. September 28, 2021.
Decolonizing Landscape Architecture Education (Part 2). The Field. September 30, 2021.
Landscape Architects Can Become Changemakers, But First We Need to Change How they Are Taught. The DIRT: Uniting the Built and Natural Environments. April 19, 2021.
I needed this to be here. SFMOMA Open Space, Issue 16: “Participatory Urbanism,” March 1, 2021
越界的建築，《作為隱喻的建築》推薦序，Medium, December 23, 20220
Civic Resilience in the COVID-19 Crisis (Part 1 of 2). Medium, September 17, 2020
Civic Resilience in the COVID-19 Crisis (Part 2 of 2). Medium, September 17, 2020
New Urban Solutions Needed for COVID-19 and Racial Justice. Kristi Park. The Dirt, ASLA, June 26, 2020
Rethinking the needs of a post-pandemic city. The Seattle Times, May 4, 2020.
A Teachable Moment. Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 2. Places Journal, April 2020.
Social Disparities Beyond Social Distancing: Public Space, in the Mirror of COVID-19. Medium, March 31, 2020.
‘Lennon Walls’ herald a sticky-note revolution in Hong Kong. The Conversation, January 17, 2020.
Be Water, as in Liquid Public Space. Medium, December 13, 2020. (English) (Traditional Chinese)
社子島問題不能奢望用假民主的i-Voting來解決。鳴人堂。February 2, 2016.
Books (in English)
Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization
Im Sik Cho, Blaž Križnik, and Jeffrey Hou, editors. Amsterdam University Press, 2022
Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity
David de la Peña, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura Lawson, and Marcia McNally, editors. Island Press, 2017. 2018 Great Places Book Award.
City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy
Jeffrey Hou and Sabine Knierbein, editors. Routledge, 2017.
Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia
Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou, editors. Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
Now Urbanism: The Future City is Here
Jeffrey Hou, Ben Spencer, Thaisa Way, and Ken Yocom, editors. Routledge, 2015.
Transcultural Cities: Border Crossing and Placemaking
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Routledge, 2013.
Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Routledge, 2010. 2012 Great Places Book Award.
Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community Gardens
Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson and Laura Lawson. University of Washington Press, 2009. 2010 Great Places Book Award.
Books (in Traditional Chinese)
Community Rewilding 野力再生：翻轉社區營造DNA
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Rive Gauche Publishing House, 2022.
City Commoning 反造再起：城市共生ING
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Rive Gauche Publishing House, 2019.
City Remaking 反造城市：非典型城市規劃術（增訂版）
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Rive Gauche Publishing House, 2019.
City Rebelling 城市造反：全球非典型城市規劃術
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Rive Gauche Publishing House, 2013.
(Selected translation from Insurgent Public Space)
City Remaking 反造城市：台灣非典型城市規劃術
Jeffrey Hou, editor. Rive Gauche Publishing House, 2013.
Journal Special Issues
共好Ｘ設計：10 個全球案例. 《台灣建築》 no. 321. 2022. Guest editors: Jeffrey Hou and Lisa Abendroth
Guerrilla Urbanism Special Issue. URBAN DESIGN International 25(2), June 2020. Guest editor: Jeffrey Hou.
“Globally Engaged” Pedagogy, Research, and Creative Practice. Public: A Journal of Imagining America, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2016). Editors: Ifeoma K. Nwankwo, Jeffrey Hou, Jan Cohen-Cruz.
PlaNext: Cities that Talk, Journal of the AESOP Young Academics Network. 1(2015)(1). Inaugural Special Issue. Editors: Jeffrey Hou, Feras Hammami.
Book Chapters and Articles (Selected)
Hou, Jeffrey. 2024. COVID-19 and Mutual Aid: Adopting New Public Realms to Strengthen Civic Resilience. In Mehta, Vikas, Danilo Palazzo, Conrad Kickert, Christopher Auffrey, and Terry Grundy, eds., The Case for Cities, 201-212. New York and London: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2022. Seattle’s CHOP guerrilla garden as a “thick” space of civil resistance. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2137788
Hou, Jeffrey. 2022. Community Capacity Building as Just Urban Design: Learning from Seattle’s Chinatown International District. In Goh, Kian, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija (eds.), Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City, 165-182. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2022. Placemaking as Social Learning: Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Urban Governance. In Cho, Im Sik, Blaž Križnik, and Jeffrey Hou (eds.) Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization, 119-142. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2021. Civic Resilience and the COVID-19 Crisis in Urban Asia. Journal of Geographical Science, 100: 121-136.
Lozanovska, Mirjana, Anoma Pieris, Farzaneh Haghighi, William M. Taylor, Jeffrey Hou, Jan Smitheram, & Lilian Chee. 2020. Other Spaces of Quarantine, Fabrications, 30(3): 416-429. DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1857609
Hou, Jeffrey. 2020. Placemaking as Emancipatory Practice in Asia? In The City at Eye Level Asia, composed by STIPO, Urban Discovery, and Think City. Amsterdam: STIPO Publishing.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2020. Guerrilla Urbanism: Urban Design and the Practices of Resistance. URBAN DESIGN International. HTTP://doi.org/0.1057/s41289-02000118-6.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2020. Governing Urban Gardens for Resilient Cities: Examining the “Garden City Initiative” in Taipei. Urban Studies, 57(7): 1398-1416 (Special issue – Environmental Governance for Urban Resilience in the Asia-Pacific).
Hou, Jeffrey. 2019. Public Space Activism and the Space for New Commons: Directions for Socially Engaged Design, Planning and Placemaking. arq.urb, 23 (September-December): 6-17. (In Portuguese and English)
Lien, Chenyu, and Jeffrey Hou. 2019. Open Green: Placemaking beyond Place-Bound Communities in Taipei. In Aelbrecht, Patricia, and Quentin Stevens (eds.), Public Space Design and Social Cohesion: An International Perspective, 178-196. London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey, and David Grohmann. 2018. Integrating Community Gardens into Urban Parks: Lessons in Planning, Design and Partnership from Seattle. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 33 (June): 46-55.
Hou, Jeffrey, Ben Spencer, and Daniel Winterbottom. 2018. Whole-Systems Public Interest Design Education: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington. In Abendroth, Lisa and Bryan Bell (eds.), Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, 8-21. London and New York: Routledge.
Huang, Shu-Mei, and Jeffrey Hou. 2018. Relocated Authenticity: Placemaking in Displacement in Southern Taiwan. In Tate, Laura and Brettany Shannon, eds. Planning for AuthentiCITIES, 271-286 London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2018. Everyday and Bottom-Up: A Counter-Narrative of American City Design. In Kickert, Conrad, and Mahyer Arefi (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Bottom-Up Urbanism, 13-27. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2018. Rupturing, Accreting, and Bridging: From Everyday Insurgencies to Emancipatory City-Making in East Asia. In Knierbein, Sabine and Tihomir Viderman (eds.), Public Space Unbound: Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition, 85-98. London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2017. Urban Community Gardens as Multimodal Social Spaces. In Tan, Puay Yok and Chi Yung Jim (eds.), Greening Cities: Forms and Functions, 113-130. Singapore: Springer Nature.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2017. Urban Commoning, Against City Divided: Field Notes from Taipei and Hong Kong. Perspecta 50: Urban Divides, 292-301. Yale University School of Architecture.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2016. Deadly and Lively Encounters. In Darling, Jonathan, and Helen F. Wilson (eds.), Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York, 221-227. London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey, and Feras Hammami. 2015. On the Entangled Paths of Urban Resistance, City Planning and Heritage Conservation. PlaNext 1(1): 9-16.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2015. Guerrilla Resilience. Waterproofing New York, Urban Research (UR), 2: 90-99. Guest Editors: Denise Hoffman-Brandt & Catherin Seavitt Nordenson. New York: Terreform.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2014. Life Before/During/Between/After Service-Learning Studios. In Bose, Mallika, et al. (Eds.), Community Matters: Service-Learning and Engaged Design and Planning, 315-333. London: Earthscan.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2014. Making and Supporting Community Gardens as Informal Urban Landscapes. In Mukhijia, Vinit and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.), The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor, 79-96. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2014. My Place—Their Place—Our Place. Ground Up, 3: 76-79.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2013. Community ‘Owned’ Public Space: Seattle’s Alternatives to POPS. SUR: Sustainable Urban Regeneration, 25: 74-77. Special Issue: Privately Owned Public Space. Tokyo: University of Tokyo.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2012. Vertical Urbanism, Horizontal Urbanity: Notes from East Asian Cities. In Bharne, Vinayak (ed.), The Emergent Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms, 234-243. London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2012. Making Public, Beyond Public Space. In Shiffman, Ron, Rick Bell, Lance J. Brown, and Lynne Elizabeth (eds.), Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space, 89-98. Berkeley, CA: New Village Press. (Also in Public Space: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, edited by Vikas Methta, Routledge, 2015) [Link]
Emerson, Pam and Jeffrey Hou. 2012. 17th and South Jackson: Relocating Casa Latina and Navigating Cultural Crossroads in Seattle. In Rios, Michael and Leo Vasquez, (eds.) Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities, 186-201. London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2011. Differences Matter: Learning to Design in Partnership with Others. In Angotti, Tom, Cheryl Doble, and Paula Horrigan (eds.), Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries, 55-69. Berkeley, CA: New Village Press. [Link]
Hou, Jeffrey. 2011. Citizen Design: Participation and Beyond. In Banerjee, Tridib and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.), Companion to Urban Design, 329-340. London and New York: Routledge.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2009. Everyday Landscapes and Urban DIYism in Sanzihou, Taipei. InTensions, 2.0, spring. Uncommon Ground: Everyday Aesthetics and the Intensionality of the Public Realm.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2008. Traditions, Transformation, and Community Design: Making of Two Ta’u Houses. In Bell, Bryan, and Katie Wakeford (Eds.), Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, 74-83. New York: Metropolis Books.
Hou, Jeffrey and Isami Kinoshita. 2007. Bridging Community Differences through Informal Processes: Reexamining Participatory Planning in Seattle and Matsudo. Journal of Planning Education and Research 26(3): 301-313.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2007. Community Processes: The Catalytic Agency of Service Learning Studio. In Salama, A. and Wilkinson, N. (Eds.), Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future, 285-293. Urban International Press, UK.
Abramson, Daniel, Lynne Manzo and Jeffrey Hou. 2006. From Ethnic Enclave to Multi-ethnic Translocal Community: Constructed Identities and Community Planning in Seattle’s ‘Chinatown-International District. Journal of Architecture and Planning Research 23(4), Winter: 341-359.
Hou, Jeffrey and Min-Jay Kang. 2006. Differences and Dialogic Learning in a Collaborative Virtual Design Studio. Open House International 31(3): 85-94. Special Issue on Studio Teaching Practices: Between Traditional, Revolutionary and Virtual Models.
Hou, Jeffrey, Isami Kinoshita and Sawako Ono. 2005. Design Collaboration in the Space of Cross-cultural Flows. Landscape Journal 24(2): 125-135.
Hou, Jeffrey. 2004. Preserving for Multiple Publics: Contesting Views of Urban Conservation in Seattle’s International District. City and Time 1(1): 29-38.
Hou, Jeffrey and Michael Rios. 2003. Community-driven Placemaking: The Social Practice of Participatory Design in the Making of Union Point Park. Journal of Architectural Education 57 (1): 19-27.
