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In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930
Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…
Women's health and the world's cities
Abstract from the publisher: Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent…
Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets
Abstract from the publisher :
Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the…
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Extract from the introduction:
The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and…
Agropolis: The social, political, and environmental dimensions of urban agriculture
Abstract from the publisher: Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world. This book presents the first findings of…
Women, slums and urbanisation : Examining the causes and consequences
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…
Women and urban settlement
Extract from the Editorial :
The articles in this edition examine gender issues and human settlement, and emphasise the interconnectedness of all aspects of women's and men's lives, and the links between people's physical surroundings and what they…
Gender and territory : The connoted space. Artecontexto (No. 8, 2005, 4)
From the editorial by Alicia Murría :
Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the…