The second volume, PATCHWORK, addresses the “patchwork thinking” that creates ad-hoc assemblages of ideas, much as a quilt is a pragmatic act of joining disparate pieces in revelatory ways. Patchwork thinking is both innovative and precise: it solves specific problems and addresses specific needs. We also see patchwork thinking as particularly urban; it’s a useful way of fixing things that have gone wrong, or embracing conditions emanating from between the cracks. Contributors to this issue are thoughtful observers of change, fluidity, and emergent systems in the city. This issue of PLOT shapes new ways of collectively reconsidering the city and its patchwork logic.

Editors: Samuel W. Berkheiser III, Kathleen Cholewka, Lara Gelband, Sara Malmqvist, Ryan Morrison, Liza Trafton

Contributors: Kjirsten Alexander, Carl Alderson, Sara Alsum-Wassenaar, Bradley Alter, Julie Bargmann, Beirut Field (Frederic Karam, an Ackenhausen, and George SalAmeh), Megan Berkheiser and Mike Caldwell, Samuel W. Berkheiser III, Emily Bolevice, Molly Briggs, Kathleen Cholewka, Xiaochao Dai, Aurora Davis , Earth Matter NY, Will Ellis, Alan Feigenberg, 596 Acres, Elizabeth Fodde-Reguer, Alberto Foyo , Future Green Studio, Lara Gelband , Anina Gerchick, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Max Jacquard, Michael A. King, Daphne Lasky, Elizabeth Luzzi, Michaela Macleod, Sara MalmQvist, Michael Mason, Matt McCormick, Ryan Morrison, Kirsten Myhr, Grace Ng, Mary Nunn, Luke Pryjma, Alanna Rios, Marie Salembier, Anamel Sanchez Lee, Eli Sands, Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Alexandra T. Siladi, B. Tyler Silvestro, Michael Sorkin, Liza Trafton, Urban-Think Tank, Maura Whang, Gabriel Willow, Esther Yang, Andrew Zientek