Gender, planning and the policy process
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Gender, planning and the policy process
(Policy, planning, and critical theory)
Pergamon Press, 1994
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 197-204
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780080404806
Description
Planning has a central essential legitimacy in addressing social goals. Despite the ideal position of planning in being able to initiate, encourage and strengthen the links between the theory and practice of feminism in its relationship with gender, planning can act against women's interests and thus reinforce the unequal distribution of powers between the sexes, not only within the planning discipline but also in the assumptions and pratice in our use of the built environments. This reluctance on the part of planning to recognize gender implications is part of the wider policy making process and its production and maintenance of gender inequality in the built environment. This book provides a feminist interpretation of contemporary urban planning. It outlines the gender inequalities which characterize many areas of mainstream planning as well as the assumptions and practices surrounding our use of the built environment. The book incorporates detailed theoretical discussion on the underlying basis and form of women's subordination and applies this discussion to the development and implementation of planning policies.
Original research is used to provide evidence of the response by panners and policy makers to gender divisions within the built environment. Attention focuses on both the establishment and operation of formal "women's initiatives" within local government and on the promotion of specific policies aimed at meeting women's needs within key areas of planning. Individual chapters cover: male power and women's inequality; women and land use planning; women, power and decision making; women and employment; accessibility and transport; and gender and housing.
Table of Contents
- Male power and women's inequality
- women and land use planning
- women, power and decision making
- women and employment
- accessiblity and transport
- gender and housing
- conclusions - a future for women's initiatives in planning.
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ISBN 9780080404813
Description
Planning has a central essential legitimacy in addressing social goals. Despite the ideal position of planning in being able to initiate, encourage and strengthen the links between the theory and practice of feminism in its relationship with gender, planning can act against women's interests and thus reinforce the unequal distribution of powers between the sexes, not only within the planning discipline but also in the assumptions and pratice in our use of the built environments. This reluctance on the part of planning to recognize gender implications is part of the wider policy making process and its production and maintenance of gender inequality in the built environment This book provides a feminist interpretation of contemporary urban planning. It outlines the gender inequalities which characterize many areas of mainstream planning as well as the assumptions and practices surrounding our use of the built environment. The book incorporates detailed theoretical discussion on the underlying basis and form of women's subordination and applies this discussion to the development and implementation of planning policies. Original research is used to provide evidence of the response by
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