Gender
Gender-sensitive planning starts from a fact: for a century the city was designed for a male worker's trip from home to job, not for chained trips, care work, the pushchair or fear on a dark street. Correcting that changes stops, lighting, pavements, timetables and facilities.
Dolores Hayden asked in 1980 what a non-sexist city would be like; Vienna has applied the answer since the 1990s through gender mainstreaming; Leslie Kern (Feminist City, 2019) and Ana Falú in Latin America have renewed the argument. It is not a city for women: it is a city for every body and every schedule.
Videos on this term (9)
- Urban psychology
Dolores Hayden: Transform Spaces, Transform Gender
Dolores Hayden shows how homes, suburbs and public memory reproduce gender inequality and how design can undo it.…
Dolores Hayden 3 min read - Public space
Women and Cities: Advances and Gaps in Urban Research
A review of 275 articles from 1977 to 2019 shows what urban research knows about women and cities and what it…
2 min read - Public space
Ana Falú: Feminist Urbanism and Inclusion in Cities
Ana Falú, a reference of feminist urbanism in Latin America: urban safety from a gender perspective, women's…
Ana Falú 2 min read - Public space
Dolores Hayden and Feminist Urbanism: The Grand Domestic Revolution
Dolores Hayden showed that housing and cities were designed as if care work did not exist. What The Grand Domestic…
Dolores Hayden 2 min read - Public space
Feminist City by Leslie Kern: The City Made by and for Men
Feminist City (2019) by Leslie Kern shows how the city was designed for a default man and how mothers, women alone…
Leslie Kern 2 min read - Public space
Gender Inequality in Urban Space: Causes and Responses
Gender inequality in the city is measured in time, fear and opportunity. What Dolores Hayden and Leslie Kern…
3 min read - Housing
Cohousing and Coliving: What They Are, Differences and City Examples
Cohousing is collaborative housing run by its residents; coliving is a serviced rental product. Origins with…
3 min read - Public space
Feminist Urbanism: What It Is, Principles and City Examples
Feminist urbanism designs cities for daily life and care work, not for the man with a car. What Jane Darke and…
3 min read - Public space
Judith Butler and the City: Gender Performativity in Urban Space
Judith Butler's gender performativity explains how urban space produces and polices gender. Her key ideas,…
3 min read
