ABSTRACT
A great deal of the actions and theory associated with the safe cities for women movement focus on women’s equal right to the city and, in particular, public space. Yet definitions of what constitutes public space are often contested and vary based on the history, physical composition and socio- political context of any given space (see Davis, 1990; Lefebvre, 1991; Mitchell, 2003). Also of particular note and with reference to the safe cities for women movement, the line between public and private space can at times be blurred or non-existent (see Haskell and Randall, 1998; Koskela, 1999; Viswanath and Mehrotra, 2007; Whitzman, 2007).
