Full Description
This edited collection investigates gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment.
Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities: Practices and Provocations centres intersectional, gender-sensitive approaches to design in the urban environment as an integral strategy in combating spatial inequities. Through an investigation of design-led methods, project case studies, activist interventions, and processes of resistance and agency, this volume offers new thinking and practical approaches to demonstrate how design might shift towards safer and more inclusive cities for women, gender-diverse people, and LGBTIQ+ communities.
This book will appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students of urbanism, design, planning, architecture, and geography, as well as government and non-profit organisations that are interested in gender and equality and can influence the future narratives of cities.
Contents
Designing gender-sensitive spaces for consenting cities: An overview
PART ONE: Designing approaches
Introduction: Designing approaches
1. In search of a method that works: the story of the gendered landscape of Umeå
2. To go for a walk alone and be a woman
3. Designing gender-responsive housing/home: a feminist exploration
4. A super-duper wicked problem: expanding intersectional climate adaptation
5. Data design and dissemination: visualising gender inequality statistics for public audiences
PART TWO: Making material changes
Introduction: Making material changes
6. Kitchen Revolutions
7. Shared reading and place-making in the rural Australian city: mediating climate crisis, marginality and gendered experience through collective reading practices
8. Institutionalising Pride: the rise of the Pride Centre in Melbourne
9. Engendering justice: on (in)visibilities of penal design, aestheticization of punishment and space of solidarity
10. Making room for the unexpected: street sex work and the indecorous city
11. Developing advocacy: insights from gender-sensitive placemaking training in the public sector
PART THREE: The possibilities of night
Introduction: The possibilities of night
12. Untangling the relationship of fear, safety and accessibility in night-time Kolkata
13. Feminist urban planning through community action and transformation: the case of Nocturnas
14. Reclaim the night: women walk to reimagine nightlife
15. Pride of place: (re)imagining a queer Sydney during WorldPride
PART FOUR: Infrastructures of care
Introduction: Infrastructures of care
16. Feminist criteria for territorialising the caring city
17. Rethinking spatial analysis and analytics: Native, Black and Latina/x feminist theories and methods for engagement, equity and justice
18. Eco-Feminist co-housing: a design approach
19. How it started/how it's going: real-time reflections* on a queer research practice
