Here's the optimistic conclusion to an otherwise saddening little essay about the inability of architects in our current professional climate to address social justice issues.  The rest of the essay (and probably the rest of the book, Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture by Diane Ghirardo) is worth a read.

I am going to tell you a story. Does that statement give you a small tingle of anticipation? Do you want to know how the story begins, what events form the story, what images transport you into it, what conflict arises, how the conflict is resolved? Imagine a group of people around a fire...