Introduction : Defining community-built / Barry L. Stiefel, Kristin Faurest, and Katherine Melcher -- Participation and empowerment : Community-built as a professional practice / Katherine Melcher -- Kalaka: four stories about community building in a new democracy / Kristin Faurest -- Reflections on community engagement: making meaning of experience / Terry L. Clements and C.L. Bohannon -- Impacts of participatory mural making on youth empowerment / Tiva Lasiter -- Culture and identity : Community eruvin: architecture for semi-public/private neighborhood space / Barry L. Stiefel -- Community-built and preserved material culture: square-log cabins in the village of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec / Mariana Esponda Cascajares -- Constructing and preserving history through community art projects / Anastasia L. Pratt -- Yellow-star houses: a community generated living history project in Budapest / Ildiko Reka Bathory-Nagy -- Local control of place : Building informal infrastructures: architects in support of bottom-up community services and social solidarity in Budapest / Daniela Patti and Levente Polyak -- The main street approach to community design / Jeremy C. Wells -- Building streets and building community / Katherine Melcher -- Conclusion : Valuing community-built / Kristin Faurest, Barry L. Stiefel, and Katherine Melcher

1. Architecture and society
2. Community development
3. Building -- Social aspects
4. Social participation