Posts Tagged ‘Gender Equal Cities’

Three Parisian feminist public spaces: a guided tour with FéminiCités.

How can gender and urbanism connect? How can we make a truly gender equal public space? Which tools do you need to reach that goal? On 13 July 2019 FéminiCités organised a workshop to visit three public spaces where an architect, an urban anthropologist, an urbanist and a skateboarder explained how to integrate the gender […]

By Anais de Muret, on August 22nd, 2019 at 11:28

The Women We See … and don’t see

Last year marked the centenary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act, extending to the right to vote for the first time to (some) women in the UK and Ireland (it would be another ten years until universal suffrage was introduced). To mark this anniversary, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launched […]

By Siobhán McKenna, on February 14th, 2019 at 11:55

Gender Equal Cities: a walk in the park?

‘Gender Equality’ has become one of the political zeitgeists of 2018, prompting institutions around the globe to take a closer look at how women and men interact in personal, professional and public spheres. But what does it mean for European cities? The new URBACT initiative, Gender Equal Cities, sought to provide some answers to this […]

By Sally Kneeshaw, on October 9th, 2018 at 13:31