Jeffrey Hou is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle. His work focuses on design activism, public space, cross-cultural placemaking, and engagement of marginalized social groups in planning and design. He is the editor of Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (2010) and Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking (2013), and most recently a co-editor of Now Urbanism: the Future City is Here (2015). In a career that spans across the Pacific, he has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers, and fishers in Taiwan, neighborhood residents in Japan, villagers in China, and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in North American cities. Hou is a recipient of Places Book Award in 2010 and 2012, and was the City of Vienna Visiting Professor at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in 2013. He is also a co-founder of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network.