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City and Gender

Intercultural Discourse on Gender, Urbanism and Architecture

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Editors:
  1. Ulla Terlinden
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. Visions of the City. Introduction

    1. Visions of the City. Introduction

      • Ulla Terlinden
      Pages 7-16

  4. Symbols and Urban Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Symbols of Gender in Architecture and Urban Design

      • Kerstin Dörhöfer
      Pages 83-104

    3. Gender Reading of the Urban Space

      • Rachel Kallus
      Pages 105-129

  5. Social Differences and Urban Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Urban Geography and Women in the Periphery’s Metropolis: The Example of Istanbul, Turkey

      • Aysegul Baykan
      Pages 133-149

    3. What’s Wrong with a Female Head?

      • Ruth Becker
      Pages 151-173

  6. Sustainability and Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Urban Sustainability, Quality of Life and Gender

      • Guiletta Fadda
      Pages 177-190

    3. Towards a Sustainable City

      • Beverly Willis
      Pages 191-208

    4. Ways to Sustainable Transport: Gender and Mobility

      • Christine Bauhardt
      Pages 209-227

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 229-230
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About this book

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 führt die internationalen Diskurse über Gender, Urbanismus und Architektur zusammen. Die Beiträge stammen von Architektinnen, Soziologinnen und Planerinnen aus den USA, Türkei, Israel, Chile, Großbritannien, Lesotho und Deutschland.

About the authors

Dr. Ulla Terlinden, Professor of Urban Sociology, Fachbereich Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung, Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: City and Gender

  • Book Subtitle: Intercultural Discourse on Gender, Urbanism and Architecture

  • Editors: Ulla Terlinden

  • Series Title: Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-97563-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3495-3Published: 31 March 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-97563-8Published: 13 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general

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