What design for Urban Design Justice?

Emerging theories of Design Justice ask architects and planners to center the voices long-oppressed groups. But which kinds spatial transformations can concretely inform a just praxis urban design? To answer this question, we compare-in-difference how disadvantaged people counter exclusion by designing spaces in Baitu (China), Los Angeles (USA), Rome (Italy). We find that diverse groups activate similar logics order resist erasure displacement: they carve out possibilities, take ownership space, break dominant aesthetics. These help us identify three design pathways detach technical knowledge from interests oppressive forces. Supporting ground-up claims, but at same time using their trained skills facilitate decisive, long-term propose professional designers Situate Possibilities, Exclude-to-Include, Reject Aesthetic Canons.