Women and Planning: Creating Gendered Realities

by Greed,Clara H.

• ISBN13: 9780415079815
• ISBN10: 0415079810
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-09-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began.Women and Planningis the first comprehensive history and anlaysis of women and the planning movement, covering the philosohical, practical and policy dimensions of ''planning for women.' Beyond the marginalization of women, modern, scientific planning hides a story of past links with eugenics, colonialism, artistic, utopian and religious movements and the occult. Central to the discussion is the questioning of how male planners have rewritten planning in their own image, projecting patriarchal assumptions in their creation of ''urban realities.' Issues os class, sexuality, ethnicity and disability are raised by the fundamental question of ''Who is being planned for?'

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Planners	p. 18
Woman in the City of Man	p. 34
Planning	p. 51
Reflections on the History of Planning	p. 70
The Nineteenth Century	p. 88
Professional Power Over Private Space	p. 107
Production and Consumption	p. 125
Urban Sociological Perceptions of Women	p. 141
Women into Planning	p. 156
Planning for Women	p. 173
	p. 194
	p. 198
	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 205
Name Index	p. 235
Subject and Place Index	p. 240
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