Introduction / Margaret Crawford -- Preface: The current state of everyday urbanism / Margaret Crawford -- Performing the city: reflections on the urban vernacular / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Blurring the boundaries: public spaces and private life / Margaret Crawford -- The urban bricoleur / Mona Houghton -- Ernest's garden / photographs by Dennis Keeley -- A curmudgeon's guide to the wide world of trash / John Leighton Chase -- They saw a very great future here: Los Angeles, Latino metropolis / Camilo José Vergara -- The present city and the practice of city design / John Kaliski -- The giant revolving (winking) chicken head and the doggie drinking fountain: making small distinctive public spaces on private land using commonplace objects / John Leighton Chase -- A day in the life of a neighborhood place / Phoebe Wall Wilson -- Street Survival: the plight of the Los Angeles street vendors / Norman Millar -- Urban diaries: improvisation in West Oakland, California / Walter Hood -- Defining minicity, or the architecture of convenience and contemporary Los Angeles urban design / John Kaliski -- The painted sign picture of Latino Los Angeles / James Rojas and John Leighton Chase -- The space formerly known as parking / John Leighton Chase -- The WiMBY! Method / Michelle Provoost -- 101 urban salvations: proposals for Cambridge, Massachusetts / Margaret Crawford -- Everyday urban design: toward default urbanism and/or urbanism by design / John Kaliski.