Women Reclaiming the City

International Research on Urbanism, Architecture, and Planning

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6265-1 (ISBN)

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This book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates.

Tigran Haas is the former director of International Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) at KTH, Stockholm and the current director of the New Halcyon Athenaeum Laboratory (HAL). He is a tenured associate professor of Urban Planning + Urban Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, and a guest research scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Cambridge in the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). Haas spans and covers one of the largest and highest profile urbanism networks in the world. He has written over a hundred scholarly articles and completed ten books. Haas is also the recipient of multiple international awards for leadership and management.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

SECTION I – Politicised Spaces and Beyond

Doreen Massey On Space

Doreen Massey

Cities of Capital – The Indifferent City: Learning from Doreen Massey

Christine Boyer

Unequal Cities, Divided Spaces – The Search of Equality

Fran Tonkiss

Why Public Space Matters

Setha Low

Landscape Literacy and Design for Ecological Democracy: The Nature of Mill Creek

Ann Whiston Spirn

Planning, Design, and the Just City

Susan Fainstein

Comparative Urbanism in Gentrification Studies: Ongoing Debate

Loretta Lees

SECTION II – Contemporary Urbanism Grounds

The New Design With Nature

Nan Ellin

Retrofitting Suburbia for 21st Century Challenges

Ellen Dunham Jones

The Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets and the Architecture of Difference

Sharon Zukin

The Meta-Principles of Good Urbanism

Emily Talen

Can Architecture Survive Our Global Housing Crisis?

Dana Cuff

Leading with Landscape: Investing in Green Infrastructure for Resilience

Nina-Marie Lister

SECTION III – New Urban Social Geographies

Feeling the Past: Heritage, Encounter and Engagement

Emma Waterton

Memorials as Spaces for Engagement: Design, Use and Meaning

Karen Franck

Health in the City

Anne Vernez Moudon

From Housing Projects to Healing Gardens: Reflections on a Career Considering the Psychology of Place

Clare Cooper Marcus

Enriching Places for Longevity: Does a Gender Perspective Make a Difference?

Ann Forsyth

How Does Body Conscious Design Contribute to Urbanism?

Galen Cranz

SECTION IV – Collective City Futures – Dwellings and Cultures

Everyday Urbanism: Public Spaces and Beyond

Margaret Crawford

Edges and Eddies: Learning to be a High-Rise Society in Post-Independence Singapore, 1960-1995

Jane M. Jacobs and Belinda Yuen

The Right to Housing

Adele Santos

Story Telling with the Shapes of Time: Place, Poetry, and Local History

Dolores Hayden

The City as a Collective Good

Saskia Sassen

The Empathy Gap: Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy Offers

Sherry Turkle

List of Contributors

Index

About the Editor

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2023
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 255 mm
Gewicht	903 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-5381-6265-2 / 1538162652
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-6265-1 / 9781538162651
Zustand	Neuware