Gender And Planning

by Fainstein, Susan S.; Servon, Lisa J.

• ISBN13: 9780813534992
• ISBN10: 0813534992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-25
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Increasingly, experts recognize that gender has affected urban planning and the design of the spaces where we live and work. Too often, urban and suburban spaces support stereotypically male activities and planning methodologies reflect a male-dominated society. To document and analyze the connection between gender and planning, the editors of this volume have assembled an interdisciplinary collection of influential essays by leading scholars. Contributors point to the ubiquitous single-family home, which prevents women from sharing tasks or pooling services. Similarly, they argue that public transportation routes are usually designed for the (male) worker's commute from home to the central city, and do not help the suburban dweller running errands. In addition to these practical considerations, many contributors offer theoretical perspectives on issues such as planning discourse and the construction of concepts of rationality. While the essays call for an awareness of gender in matters of planning, they do not over-simplify the issue by moving toward a single feminist solution. Realizing that not all women gravitate toward communal opportunities, that many women now share the supposedly male commute, and that considerations of race and class need to influence planning as well, many contributors urge urban planners to provide opportunities that facilitate women's needs, such as childcare on the way to work and jobs that are decentralized so that women can be close to their children. Bringing together the most important writings of the last twenty-five years, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of planning theory as well as anyone concerned with gender and diversity.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Intersection of Gender and Planning	1	(14)
SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN AND LISA I. SERVON
PART ONE Public and Private Space
1 What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?	15	(16)
DAPHNE SPAIN
2 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space	31	(16)
ALEXANDER J. REICHL
3 What Would a Nonsexist City Be Like?: Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work	47	(20)
DOLORES HAYDEN
PART TWO Planning Theory
4 A Gender Agenda: New Directions for Planning Theory	67	(19)
LEONIE SANDERCOCK AND ANN FORSYTH
5 Justice and the Politics of Difference	86	(18)
IRIS MARION YOUNG
6 Women and Human Development: In Defense of Universal Values	104	(16)
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
7 Feminism and Planning: Theoretical Issues	120	(21)
SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN
PART THREE Housing
8 Women's Aspirations and the Home: Episodes in American Feminist Reform	141	(15)
GWENDOLYN WRIGHT
9 Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II	156
JOAN OCKMAN
PART FOUR Economic Development
10 City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy	169	(22)
ANN R. MARKUSEN
11 Microenterprise Programs and Women: Entrepreneurship as Individual Empowerment	191	(22)
LISA J. SERVON
12 Space, Place, and Gender	213	(22)
DOREEN MASSEY WITH LINDA McDOWELL
PART FIVE Transportation
13 Women's Travel Issues: The Research and Policy Environment	235	(21)
SANDRA ROSENBLOOM
14 The Northern Drive: Black Women in Transit	256	(19)
SIKIVU HUTCHINSON
15 Gender Planning in Public Transit: Institutionalizing Feminist Policies, Changing Discourse, and Practices	275	(22)
GERDA R. WEKERLE
Notes on Contributors	297	(6)
Index	303