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Planning for a Feminist City
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Spatial planning can only deliver a safe, healthy and sustainable environment for all if it is sensitive to the needs of all, which means taking into account the different roles women and men have in society and the different expectations and requirements they have from the planning system.
Nobody could argue with that principle, but what does it mean in practice? What does planning policy look like when viewed through a gender lens, how do we plan on a gender inclusive basis at a city-wide scale and what does that look like on the ground?
This episode has been put together by Sam Stafford (@samuel_stafford) with the help of Women in Planning (@womeninplanning) and the Royal Town Planning Institute to mark International Women's Day. It is comprised of three parts that will tackle those questions by way of three separate conversations.
In Part 1 you will hear Shelly Rouse (@rouse_shelly) talk to Karen Horwood (@karenhhorwood) and Natalya Palit (@natpalit) about women in planning, woman and planning and gender mainstreaming.
In Part 2 you will hear Phoebe Threlfall and Katie Shoosmith (@KFluzza) talk to Holly Bruce (@cllrhollybruce) about Holly’s ambition to make Glasgow a Feminist City.
And in Part 3 you will hear Vicky Payne (@Victoria_Payne) talk to Imogen Clark, Helen Fadipe (@hfadipe) and Katie Wray (@kluw) about making space for girls. At the end of that segment you can also look forward to Vicky getting on the 50 Shades soapbox.
Some accompanying reading.
Make Space For Girls' Research Report 2023
https://www.makespaceforgirls.co.uk/resources/research-report-2023
RTPI Material:
- Women and Planning: Past, Present and Future
- Women and Planning (Part II)
- Children and town planning: creating places to grow
- Gender and Spatial Planning: Good Practice Note 7
- Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit
Feminist City - Claiming Space in a Man-made World, by Leslie Kern
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3842-feminist-city
The substantive and descriptive representation of women in planning: analysis from practice and academia