Women Reclaiming the City - International Research on Urbanism, Architecture, and Planning

This book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION I - Politicised Spaces and Beyond

Doreen Massey On Space

Doreen Massey

Cities of Capital - The Indifferent City: Learning from Doreen Massey

Christine Boyer

Unequal Cities, Divided Spaces - The Search of Equality

Fran Tonkiss

Why Public Space Matters

Setha Low

Landscape Literacy and Design for Ecological Democracy: The Nature of Mill Creek

Ann Whiston Spirn

Planning, Design, and the Just City

Susan Fainstein

Comparative Urbanism in Gentrification Studies: Ongoing Debate

Loretta Lees
SECTION II - Contemporary Urbanism Grounds

The New Design With Nature

Nan Ellin

Retrofitting Suburbia for 21^st Century Challenges

Ellen Dunham Jones

The Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets and the Architecture of Difference

Sharon Zukin

The Meta-Principles of Good Urbanism

Emily Talen

Can Architecture Survive Our Global Housing Crisis?

Dana Cuff

Leading with Landscape: Investing in Green Infrastructure for Resilience

Nina-Marie Lister
SECTION III - New Urban Social Geographies

Feeling the Past: Heritage, Encounter and Engagement

Emma Waterton

Memorials as Spaces for Engagement: Design, Use and Meaning

Karen Franck

Health in the City

Anne Vernez Moudon

From Housing Projects to Healing Gardens: Reflections on a Career Considering the Psychology of Place

Clare Cooper Marcus

Enriching Places for Longevity: Does a Gender Perspective Make a Difference?

Ann Forsyth

How Does Body Conscious Design Contribute to Urbanism?

Galen Cranz
SECTION IV - Collective City Futures - Dwellings and Cultures

Everyday Urbanism: Public Spaces and Beyond

Margaret Crawford

Edges and Eddies: Learning to be a High-Rise Society in Post-Independence Singapore, 1960-1995

Jane M. Jacobs and Belinda Yuen

The Right to Housing

Adele Santos

Story Telling with the Shapes of Time: Place, Poetry, and Local History

Dolores Hayden

The City as a Collective Good

Saskia Sassen

The Empathy Gap: Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy Offers

Sherry Turkle
List of Contributors
Index
About the Editor

About the author

Edited by Tigran Haas

Product details

• Authors: Tigran Haas
• Assisted by: Tigran Haas (Editor), Haas Tigran (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781538162651
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6265-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ARCHITECTURE / General, Urban & municipal planning, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Urban and municipal planning and policy