Vivienda y Ciudad (Dec 2017)

Built gendering

  • Saskia Sassen

Journal volume & issue
no. 4

Abstract

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Urban planning is not gender neutral. While there has long been research on how urban systems fail to respond to women’s needs, it was only a decade ago that the subject surged. Since then, countless cities have been host to initiatives addressing a version of the “urban planning gender gap.” Though “gendering” still refers overwhelmingly to a female-male divide, today it is taking on an expanded range of meaning within the household and the city