Gender-Conscious Urbanism and Urban Planning
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Gender-Conscious Urbanism and Urban Planning Liliana De Simone Facultad de Comunicaciones, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Género&Ciudad, Santiago, Chile
Synonyms Gender-conscious urban design; Gender-conscious urban planning
Definitions Gender-conscious urbanism and urban planning refer to the gendered methodological tools that enrich the diagnosis of urban challenges by highlighting the social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions that gender carries in urban daily lives in different cultures. By using intersectionality inspired tools for measuring, modelling, analysing, scheming, designing, and communicating urban policies and plans, a gender-conscious urban project aims to highlight the invisible effects of gender in the replicating conditions of inequality and spatial segregation in urban life.
Gender as an Urban Category The debate around the construction of more inclusive cities for all has been increasingly present in public opinion. Toward the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, a new articulated social movement has revealed that secondary and tertiary human rights (those that advocate for the right to access to decent work, the right to opportunities, the right to environment insurance, and the right to the city, among others) continue to be a public debt, which becomes dramatic when we look at it from a gender perspective. Despite a significant amount of theoretical and discursive advances, equality in the access and right to the city have not been achieved for all, especially women and girls. It remains as a significant debt for millions of women and girls who does not have a voice in the processes that shape the way they live. Urban dwellers are not all the same, but instead, they are fundamentally different, in their bodies, choices, identities, and needs. Moreover, city planners should recognize how different citizens can be by identifying those differences in the design of urban projects. The different ways of moving through space between an 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old teenager or between a 35-year-old pregnant woman and a 90-year-old grandfather should be the primary goal of inclusive urban planning.
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Our bodies change, and our mobility, and therefore, the accessibility we require, changes over time. Humans are born depending on other humans, and thus this dependency remains until an advanced age. At the same time, moving around the city tends to become more difficult as people grow older, and in an advance age, humans perish in need of care. The inconsistency of our city designs in addressing these lifepath changes is of one of the more significant inequalities that urban life presents to all, especially women and girls. Gender-conscious urbanism does not seek to exalt the differences between men and women or “sexualise” the design
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