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Gender-conscious urbanism and urban planning refer to the gendered methodological tools that enrich the diagnosis of urban challenges by highlighting the social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions that gender carries in urban daily lives in different cultures. By using intersectionality inspired tools for measuring, modelling, analysing, scheming, designing, and communicating urban policies and plans, a gender-conscious urban project aims to highlight the invisible effects of gender in the replicating conditions of inequality and spatial segregation in urban life.
Gender as an Urban Category
The debate around the construction of more inclusive cities for all has been increasingly present in public opinion. Toward the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, a new articulated social movement has revealed that secondary and tertiary human rights (those that...
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De Simone, L. (2020). Gender-Conscious Urbanism and Urban Planning. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_152-1
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