Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space (Gender, Bodies and Transformation)

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Synopsis
Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment. Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce, construct, represent and materialise gendered spatial practices, it brings together practice and theory to critique, question and enable solutions that challenge the root causes of gender inequalities in cities. Through a rich array of case-studies, practice-led interventions, and historical and theoretical perspectives, it examines important issues that affect the ways in which women, and people of diverse gender and sexual identities experience and participate in cities. Thematically organised, it considers problems of street-harassment, heterosexualisation and equity in access and mobility, together with modes of segregation, isolation and discrimination, as well as processes of resistance, intervention and agency. Grounded in feminist and queer methods of analysis, the book offers new insights regarding the representation of cities, the lived experience of cities, and how design-tactics and approaches might affect the ways cities shape and regulate how women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit, occupy and move through the city. An examination of the ways in which design might shift toward safer and more inclusive cities, Contentious Cities will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies and urban studies, as well as those working in the fields of urban planning and design.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
250 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000226836
Related ISBNs:
9780367520212, 9781003056065, 9780367520199
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Jess Berry, Timothy Moore, Nicole Kalms and Gene Bawden
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jess Berry
Edited by:
Timothy Moore
Edited by:
Nicole Kalms
Edited by:
Gene Bawden

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