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Change of Plans : Towards a Non-Sexist Sustainable City / Margrit Eichler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eichler, Margrit, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and city planning.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Feminist theory.
- Genre:
- Livres numeriques.
- e-books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Change of Plans raises questions that are not commonly posed, suggests new avenues for thought in city planning, and contributes to the growing literature on sustainability by merging it with a feminist approach. The book provides a concrete example of a team of academics, planners, and architects that has struggled to combine an environmental with a non-sexist perspective.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""acknowledgements""; ""the contributors""; ""foreword""; ""designing eco-city in north america""; ""deconstructing the man made city: feminist critiques of planning thought and action""; ""seeking shelter: feminist home truths""; ""at risk: the person behind the assumptions""; ""what do you want to do? pave parks?""; ""sowing the seeds of sustainability: planning for food self-reliance""; ""access over excess:transcending captivity and transportation disadvantage""; ""planning change: not an end but a beginning""; ""references""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781442602427
- 1442602422
- OCLC:
- 923767638
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