ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 introduces important planning guidelines at neighbourhood level, taking Vienna as an example for Austria and examining different guidelines for Switzerland. After describing the underlying planning principles of the guidelines, the relevant criteria are systematically compared. Various examples of development sites and parks in Vienna and Zurich show to what extent and how the criteria influence planning practices. Finally, the authors summarise the main findings with respect to important gender-sensitive planning principles and criteria in neighbourhood planning and their communication through manuals. The comparison shows that similar criteria can stem from an explicitly gendered approach and from an implicitly gender-sensitive approach focusing on quality of living and urban spaces. In both ways, quality standards for well-functioning neighbourhoods can be met. However, manuals cannot do “the whole job”, strategic gender interests still have to be pursued on different political and planning levels to reach greater gender equality.
