She City : Designing Out Women's Inequity in Cities / Nicole Kalms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalms, Nicole, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Case studies.

City and town life.

Sex role--Case studies.

Sex role.

Urban women--Social conditions--Case studies.

Urban women.

Women--Violence against--Case studies.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2023]

Summary:

Nicole Kalms' 'She City: Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities' addresses the systemic inequities faced by women in urban environments. The book explores how cities can be redesigned to better meet the needs of women and girls, emphasizing feminist urban design. It is a culmination of applied research from the Monash University XYX Lab, focusing on strategies that prioritize women's safety and inclusion in public spaces. Key topics include sexist street harassment, public transport safety, and the integration of women's perspectives in urban planning. The book is intended for urban planners, policymakers, and those interested in gender equality in urban spaces. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER ONE Women in Cities: An Introduction

Why Women?

Public Space, Private Hell

Not Neutral

On Intersectionality

Somewhere Only We Know: Bias and the Built Environment

Women as Experts: Designing With, Not For

How to Use This Book

PART ONE Resisting Sexist Cities

CHAPTER TWO Don't Stand So Close to Me: Sexist Street Harassment and Women's Safety Work

Sexist Street Harassment and Women's "Safety Work"

Managing the Risk of Men's Violence in Cities

Intersectional Experiences of Sexist Street Harassment

Understanding Typologies and Hotspots for Sexist Street Harassment

Reporting, Under-reporting and Counter-reporting

Raising Women's Voices: Alternative Modes of Reporting

The Role of Policy, Practice and Communities

Unburdening Women and Girls

CHAPTER THREE Fake Happy: Hypersexual Cities and Women's Inequity

Sexism, Pornographication and Women's Oppression

Pornographication, Porno-chic, Raunch Culture, Hypersexualization . . . You Know It When You See It

Types of Representations of Women and Girls

Overexposure

Understanding Infrastructures of Advertising Media in Cities

Normalization of Violence Against Women

Urban Advertising and the Role of Policy and Activism

Get Serious

CHAPTER FOUR Missing Women: Smart Women in the Data Gap

Sex and the Data Gap

Data About Women in Cities

Female Data/Feminist Data

Data and the Role of Policy, Practice and Communities

Amplifying Voices

PART TWO Designing Feminist Cities

CHAPTER FIVE Girls to the Front: Mainstreaming Women's Needs

Who Gets What, Where, How andWhy (and Who Decides)

Uptake of Gender Mainstreaming by Design and Planning Practitioners

Who, Exactly.

Women and Girls on the Ground

What Is the Future for Gender Mainstreaming?

CHAPTER SIX Not Neutral: Designing Cities for Women

Designing Cities for Women

Setting the Scene for Gender-sensitive Design for Women

The Role of Practice and Communitieson the Ground

CHAPTER SEVEN Expanding Expertise: Women's Safety Audits

Women's Safety Audits

Elevating Women's Voice?

PART THREE Prioritizing Safer Cities

CHAPTER EIGHT Train Wreck: Public Transport and Women's Safety

Public Transport And Women's Safety

Undervalued and Overlooked: Men's vs Women's Use of Public Transport

Intersectionality and Women's Transport

Designing for Transport Spaces Typologies

Access All Areas

Operational Transformation in Transport Policy, Planning and Design

CHAPTER NINE Eyes on the Street: Women and Urban Crime Prevention

Women and Urban Crime Prevention

Limitations of CPTED for Women and Girls

A Feminist "Revision" to Crime Prevention

Surveillance (Informal and Formal)

Positive Reinforcement (Activity and Maintenance)

Access Control (Hardening and Territoriality)

Typology, Context and Fear of Crime

[Not] for Women's Safety: The Problem with CCTV

A Note on Digital Guardians

Cities Interrupted

CHAPTER TEN On the Edge of the Night: Women and the Night-Time Economy

Women and the Night-time Economy

Risky Business

Accountability and Responsibility

Typologies of Darkness

Blinding Light: Gender-sensitive Lighting

CHAPTER ELEVEN Run the World: Co-design in a Feminist Framework

Activating She City

Making Space to Make Space

Run the World

A Better Standard than This

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX.

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ISBN:

9781350153103

1350153109

9781350153097

1350153095

OCLC:

1409702833