ABSTRACT
As Greed (1994) has noted, a feminist sensibility has been slow to enter the field of architecture and building. Urban design, as a new field, should hope to shrug off ‘patriarchal attitudes’ more rapidly and at least start with an open approach to issues of female/male difference, sexuality and spatial divisions. That issues of gender have reached academic and professional consideration at all, is due to the work of feminists working within academic and professional fields and, more often unpaid and unacknowledged, within voluntary and local organisations.
