Columns and Opinion The Seventh Generation: Special Issue on Feminism, Gender, and Planning by Ann Forsyth Do Equity Planners Care About Health Care ? by Patricia Nolan Feature Women Plan Toronto: Incorporating Gender Issues in Urban Planning by Barbara Loevinger Rahder […]
The Complexity of Gender A Caribbean Perspective
by Wanda I. Mills Community building and development efforts need to take into account differences among groups within communities. I propose a model that looks at how class, race, ethnicity, nationality, colonial status, sexuality and gender produce diverse relationships among […]
Cross-over Dreams Gender, Development and Community Development
by Claudia B. Isaac For some time, I have been thinking about the crossovers in my own practice and scholarship, where the distinct practices of “Gender and Development” and “Community Development” intersect. “Gender and Development” joins gender and economic development […]
Subscribing to Gender Internet Resources for Planners
by Stacy Harwood Over a year ago, I began “surfing the Web” for anything related to the intersection of women, gender or feminist theory and urban planning, loosely defined. Although a frustrating and time consuming process, I managed to uncover […]
Engendering Neoliberal Reform
by Amy Lind Many planners and development practitioners have recognized women’s work as an important source for community development and mobilization. A common message is, if a development project is to be successful, women must be involved. Yet it is […]
Lifting Women’s Voices, The Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization and Participatory Action Research
by Marie Kennedy How can progressive planners work more effectively with low-income women to address urgent issues they face, such as the increasing risk and conditions of homelessness? What alternative models of needs analysis and policy planning lend themselves to […]
Women Plan Toronto Incorporating Gender Issues in Urban Planning
by Barbara Loevinger Rahder Grassroots women can organize to change the way cities are planned and developed. Women Plan Toronto (WPT) is an example of how they can do it. WPT is a grassroots women’s organization that uses participatory methods to […]
Do Equity Planners Care About Health Care?
by Patricia A. Nolan I was standing in the lobby of the massive 918-bed Cook County Hospital complex in Chicago when it finally hit me. Here in the heart of one of the country’s largest public hospitals I was surrounded […]
Special Issue on Feminism, Gender, and Planning
by Ann Forsyth, Guest Editor Contemporary US feminism emerged in the 1960s and 1970s at the end of a period of dramatic residential suburbanization and urban renewal. In this context, feminist work from the planning and design professions in the […]