How can we make cities better for women?
Good cities should serve the needs of everyone. How can planners address differences in how women and men experience their built environment?
With different roles in life and different needs, women and men experience their built environment differently. Yet, good cities are those that can serve the needs of everyone. How should planners address such differences? How can we make cities better for women?
The concept of gender-mainstreaming in urban planning has been increasingly prominent especially in relation to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equity. The general understanding of its meaning, approaches and translation in spatial planning, however, remains limited.
The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), through its collaborative project with Asian Development Bank, proposed MAPS (Mobility, Accessibility, Participation and Safety/Security) as guiding principles that could be easily understood by city makers.
In the podcast, external pageHow can we make cities better for women? Dr Devisari Tunas and Dr Akino Tahir from the Gender Sensitive Urban Planning team at the FCL discuss the challenges and strategies in making cities more gender-sensitive when it comes to urban planning.
Dr Akino Tahir is an urban planner by training, working primarily in the field of community and youth development, gender, and urban environmental management. Prior to joining the gender-sensitive urban planning team in FCL ETHZ, she worked as a humanitarian worker in a child-focused international organization and as a consultant on a project-basis with Resilience Development Initiative in Indonesia. She is now working home-based from Australia for several independent research projects, including on social integration of urban refugees and on consumerism and circular economy.
