City and Gender Intercultural Discourse on Gender, Urbanism and Architecture [Paperback]

The book brings together the international discourses on gender, urbanism and architecture. Contributors are architects, social scientists and scholars from city and regionalplanning from the U.S., Turkey, Israel, Chile, UK, Lesotho and Germany.?Das Buch f?hrt die internationalen Diskurse ?ber Gender, Urbanismus und Architektur zusammen. Die Beitr?ge stammen von Architektinnen, Soziologinnen und Planerinnen aus den USA, T?rkei, Israel, Chile, Gro?britannien, Lesotho und Deutschland.Visions of the City. Introduction.- Womens Movement and Public Spaces.- From the Local Level to the Global Level and Back Again. How Feminism has Spread.- Public Man and Private Woman: Discourse and Practice in Western Societies.- Public Spaces as a Contribution to Egalitarian Cities.- Symbols and Urban Space.- Symbols of Gender in Architecture and Urban Design.- Gender Reading of the Urban Space.- Social Differences and Urban Development.- Urban Geography and Women in the Peripherys Metropolis: The Example of Istanbul, Turkey.- Whats Wrong with a Female Head?.- Sustainability and Planning.- Urban Sustainability, Quality of Life and Gender.- Towards a Sustainable City.- Ways to Sustainable Transport: Gender and Mobility.- Notes on the Contributors.Dr. Ulla Terlinden, Professor of Urban Sociology, Fachbereich Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung, Universit?t Gesamthochschule Kassel.The book brings together the international discourses on gender, urbanism and architecture. Contributors are architects, social scientists and scholars from city and regionalplanning from the U.S., Turkey, Israel, Chile, UK, Lesotho and Germany.?Das Buch f?hrt die internationalen Diskurse ?ber Gender, Urbanismus und Architektur zusammen. Die Beitr?ge stammen von Architektinnen, Soziologinnen und Planerinnen aus den USA, T?rkei, Israel, Chile, Gro?britannien, Lesotho und Deutschland.The book brings together the international discourses on gender, urbanism and architecture. Contributors are architects, social sl3