ABSTRACT
In a booklet published by a group of Norwegian feminist transport researchers and planners in the 1980s, two different models for future urban development were discussed: the 'masculine city' and the 'feminine city'. The 'masculine city' was based on development where women increasingly adopted men's mobility patterns, with the road network and urban land use adapted to steadily growing automobility. The 'feminine' model implied that men, through encouragement and coercion, increasingly adopted womem's traditional travelling patterns, with shorter trips and a greater number of trips on foot, by bike and on public transport. This chapter presents results from one of the few studies that have investigated how residential location influences daily travel differently among women and men: a comprehensive study of residents of the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area, Denmark. The investigation has been informed by concepts and perspectives from time geography, location theory and mobility sociology.
