Women and planning, Women and care giving, Women’s safety, Gender, Empowerment
Towards Women-Led Urbanism
About this issue
Issue number
Volume 49 – Number 4
Summary
This issue reflect focuses on future directions for research, policy and practice required to address today’s significant transformations affecting urban spaces, cities and hence women’s everyday living conditions. Women-led urbanism needs to be understood in a systemic way and to be inclusive of the micro, meso, and macro scales within which women’s everyday living is situated and impacted.
Contents:
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Towards Women-Led Urbanism: New Agenda, New Priorities
LUCY NATARAJAN and LAUREN ANDRES -
Bodies Holding up Communities: Uncaring Infrastructures in Santiago, Chile and Beyond
BRENDA PARKER, MAGDALENA RIVERA and MARTÍN ALVAREZ -
Empowerment through Waiting Modalities: The Transformation of Syrian Female Refugees’ Activities and Productivity in Lebanese Informal Tented Settlements
PAUL MOAWAD -
Home, Shelter, Trap: Experiences of Pandemic Confinement in Bogotá, Colombia
FRIEDERIKE FLEISCHER -
Responding with Care: Women Community Leaders’ Care Practices in Gang-Controlled Neighbourhoods in Medellín, Colombia
LIRIO GUTIÉRREZ RIVERA -
Women’s Safety: A Consideration of the Role of Planning through the Capability Model
KAREN HORWOOD and CHARLOTTE MORPHET -
I Need to Pee! Gender Inequalities and (In-)Accessibility of Public Restrooms in London
CLARA EIRICH - Publication Reviews