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Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy, and
practice of designing for gender in urban spaces. Gender matters in
city design, yet despite legislative mandates across the globe to
provide equal access to services for men and women alike, these
issues are still often overlooked or inadequately addressed. This
book looks at critical aspects of contemporary cities regarding
gender, including topics such as transport, housing, public health,
education, caring, infrastructure, as well as issues which are
rarely addressed in planning, design, and policy, such as the
importance of toilets for education and clothes washers for
freeing-up time. In the first section, a number of chapters in the
book assess past, current, and projected conditions in cities
vis-a-vis gender issues and needs. In the second section, the book
assesses existing policy, planning, and design efforts to improve
women's and men's concerns in urban living. Finally, the book
proposes changes to existing policies and practices in urban
planning and design, including its thinking (theory) and norms
(ethics). The book applies the current scholarship on theory and
practice related to gender in a planning context, elaborating on
some critical community-focused reflections on gender and design.
It will be key reading for scholars and students of planning,
architecture, design, gender studies, sociology, anthropology,
geography, and political science. It will also be of interest to
practitioners and policy makers, providing discussion of emerging
topics in the field.
Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and
professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing
gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on
urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated
for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and,
although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the
decade that followed, there is still much to do in terms of policy,
knowledge production, dissemination and education. This work
contributes to all three objectives, by advancing the state of
knowledge, as well as providing educational and professional tools
in the field of gender sensitive planning in Europe. The volume
begins by explaining the concept of gender mainstreaming in
relation to its origins in the 'second wave' of the women's
movement and critiques of planning, architecture, transport
planning and other built environment disciplines. It then provides
a brief history of how gender mainstreaming was incorporated into
European law, before focussing on the theoretical issues and
questions that surround the concept of gender mainstreaming as they
relate to urban space and the planning of cities and regions,
including a discussion of the persistence of inequalities between
the sexes in their access to urban space and services. In
particular, the division between waged and unwaged work and its
impact on the social construction of gender and of the physical
built environment is considered. The differences between
definitions of feminism and their implications for action in
planning and design are also explored, paying regard to the
tensions between a feminist vision of a transformation of gender
relations and the requirements of gender mainstreaming to
accommodate the different needs of women and men in their everyday
lives in urban space. Throughout the book, key issues recur, such
as the importance of time and space in the experience of urbanism,
resistances to change on the part of institutions and social
structures, and the importance of networks. Education and training
also appear as common themes, as do citizen participation and the
structures of governance. The chapters are organised into four
sections: concepts, structures, empowerment and spatial quality.
Contributors demonstrate a variety of approaches to the
intersections of gender, women, cities, and planning, dealing with
substantive and procedural issues in planning, at both local and
regional scales. They stress the links between environmental
sustainability and gender-sensitive urban development. The book
concludes by putting forward an outlook for future action.
Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and
professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing
gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on
urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated
for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and,
although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the
decade that followed, there is still much to do in terms of policy,
knowledge production, dissemination and education. This work
contributes to all three objectives, by advancing the state of
knowledge, as well as providing educational and professional tools
in the field of gender sensitive planning in Europe. The volume
begins by explaining the concept of gender mainstreaming in
relation to its origins in the 'second wave' of the women's
movement and critiques of planning, architecture, transport
planning and other built environment disciplines. It then provides
a brief history of how gender mainstreaming was incorporated into
European law, before focussing on the theoretical issues and
questions that surround the concept of gender mainstreaming as they
relate to urban space and the planning of cities and regions,
including a discussion of the persistence of inequalities between
the sexes in their access to urban space and services. In
particular, the division between waged and unwaged work and its
impact on the social construction of gender and of the physical
built environment is considered. The differences between
definitions of feminism and their implications for action in
planning and design are also explored, paying regard to the
tensions between a feminist vision of a transformation of gender
relations and the requirements of gender mainstreaming to
accommodate the different needs of women and men in their everyday
lives in urban space. Throughout the book, key issues recur, such
as the importance of time and space in the experience of urbanism,
resistances to change on the part of institutions and social
structures, and the importance of networks. Education and training
also appear as common themes, as do citizen participation and the
structures of governance. The chapters are organised into four
sections: concepts, structures, empowerment and spatial quality.
Contributors demonstrate a variety of approaches to the
intersections of gender, women, cities, and planning, dealing with
substantive and procedural issues in planning, at both local and
regional scales. They stress the links between environmental
sustainability and gender-sensitive urban development. The book
concludes by putting forward an outlook for future action.
Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy, and
practice of designing for gender in urban spaces. Gender matters in
city design, yet despite legislative mandates across the globe to
provide equal access to services for men and women alike, these
issues are still often overlooked or inadequately addressed. This
book looks at critical aspects of contemporary cities regarding
gender, including topics such as transport, housing, public health,
education, caring, infrastructure, as well as issues which are
rarely addressed in planning, design, and policy, such as the
importance of toilets for education and clothes washers for
freeing-up time. In the first section, a number of chapters in the
book assess past, current, and projected conditions in cities
vis-a-vis gender issues and needs. In the second section, the book
assesses existing policy, planning, and design efforts to improve
women's and men's concerns in urban living. Finally, the book
proposes changes to existing policies and practices in urban
planning and design, including its thinking (theory) and norms
(ethics). The book applies the current scholarship on theory and
practice related to gender in a planning context, elaborating on
some critical community-focused reflections on gender and design.
It will be key reading for scholars and students of planning,
architecture, design, gender studies, sociology, anthropology,
geography, and political science. It will also be of interest to
practitioners and policy makers, providing discussion of emerging
topics in the field.
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