ABSTRACT
Women and gender became more prominent issues in city planning and architecture in the 1970s. Factoring in gender-specific concerns allows planners and designers to provide and enable a physical environment where daily life is better supported than it is today. This book covers key topics that are central to gendered approaches to planning, authored by mostly European and North American scholars whose focus goes in a number of cases beyond these geographical areas to also include other parts of the world. In the developing world women still face massive material needs and suffer explicit legal discrimination in terms of gender equality, for instance in access to property and inheritance rights. Lack of access to water, sanitation, and toilets in homes and schools is a major cause of girls not getting educated, resulting in reduced employment opportunities for adult women, and of sexual violence against them.
