Engendering Cities: Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for All

"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 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, it 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"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Planning the Gendered City -- PART I: Engendering Urban Transportation -- 2. A Gendered View of Mobility and Transport: Next Steps and Future Directions -- 3. Gendered Mobility Patterns of Carers in Austria -- 4. Violence against Women in Moving Transportation in Indian Cities: Reconceptualising Gendered Transport Policy -- 5. Planning Mobility in Portugal with a Gender Perspective -- 6. Implementation of Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Transport Development Plans in Germany -- 7. Why Low-Income Women in the US Still Need Automobiles -- PART II: Engendering Planning for Urban Justice -- 8. Public Toilets: The Missing Component in Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for Women -- 9. Are Safe Cities Just Cities? A Perspective from France -- 10. Everyday Life Experiences of Afghan Immigrant Women as Representation of their Place of Belonging in Auckland -- 11. Gender Mainstreaming in the Regional Discourse over the Future of the Ruhr Metropolitan Area: Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Planning Processes -- 12. An Analysis of EU Urban Policy from the Perspective of Gender -- 13. Gender Mainstreaming Urban Planning and Design Processes in Greece -- PART III: Tools for Engendering Planning -- 14. Gendering the Design of Cities in Aotearoa New Zealand: Are We There Yet? -- 15. Gender Impact Assessments, a Tool for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda: The Case of Madrid Nuevo Norte -- 16. Gender and the Urban in the Twenty-First Century: Paving the Way to 'Another' Gender Mainstreaming -- 17. Epilogue: Unifying Difference and Equality Concepts to Buttress Policy -- Index.