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ABOUT THE BOOK

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-à-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.

TABLE OF CONTENS

Chapter 1. Planning the Gendered City

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga and Michael Neuman

Section 1: Engendering Urban Transportation

Chapter 2. A Gendered View of Mobility and Transport

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

Chapter 3. The Complexity of Care-Givers’ Trip Chains. Results from Gender Sensitive Mobility Surveys by Austrian Transport Planners and Consultants

Bente Knoll and Teresa Schwaninger

Chapter 4.. Violence Against Women in Moving Transportation in Indian cities: Reconceptualising Gendered Transport Policy

Yamini Narayanan

Chapter 5. Planning Mobility in Portugal with a Gender Perspective

Margarida Queirós and Nuno Marques da Costa

Chapter 6. Implementation of Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Transport Development
Plans in Germany

Elena von den Driesch, Linda Steuer, Tobias Berg, and Carmen Leicht-Scholten

Chapter 7. Why Low-Income Women in the U.S. Need Automobiles

Evelyn Blumenberg

Section 2: Engendering Planning for Urban Justice

Chapter 8. Are Safe Cities Just Cities?

Lucile Biarrotte and Claire Hancock

Chapter 9. Public Toilets: The Missing Component in Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for Women

Clara Greed

Chapter 10. The Everyday Life of Immigrant Women as a Struggle to Create their own Living Places

Roja Tafaroji

Chapter 11. Gender Mainstreaming in the Regional Discourse – Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Planning Processes

Jeanette Sebrantke, Mechtild Stiewe, Sibylle Kelp-Siekmann, and Gudrun Kemmler-Lehr

Chapter 12. The Gender Dimension in the Urban Policy of the EU

Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado

Chapter 13. Gender Mainstreaming Urban Planning and Design Processes in Greece

Charis Christodoulou

Section 3: Tools for Engendering Planning

Chapter 14. Gendering the Design of Cities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Are We There Yet?

Dory Reeves, Julie Fairey, Jade Kake, Emma McInnes, and Eva Zombori

Chapter 15. Gender Impact Assessments, a Tool for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda. The Case of Madrid Nuevo Norte

Inés Novella Abril

Chapter 16. Grounds for Future Gendered Urban Agendas

Camilla Perrone

Chapter 17. Epilogue – Unifying Difference and Equality Concepts to Buttress Policy

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga