Description
Book SynopsisThis book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates.
Trade ReviewOne of the great things about the Athena Talks in Stockholm is that it is such an intensely organized event with an impressive diversity of ideas and an amazing efflorescence of urban approaches and perspectives. This lively assemblage of leading female urban scholars will have long-term consequences in regard to future debates on architecture and urban design, surely providing a vigorous discussion at the present.
-- Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York, architectural critic, writer, urbanist and president of Terreform
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION I – Politicised Spaces and Beyond
- Doreen Massey On Space
Doreen Massey
- Cities of Capital – The Indifferent City: Learning from Doreen Massey
Christine Boyer
- Unequal Cities, Divided Spaces – The Search of Equality
Fran Tonkiss
- Why Public Space Matters
Setha Low
- Landscape Literacy and Design for Ecological Democracy: The Nature of Mill Creek
Ann Whiston Spirn
- Planning, Design, and the Just City
Susan Fainstein
- Comparative Urbanism in Gentrification Studies: Ongoing Debate
Loretta Lees
SECTION II – Contemporary Urbanism Grounds
- The New Design With Nature
Nan Ellin
- Retrofitting Suburbia for 21st Century Challenges
Ellen Dunham Jones
- The Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets and the Architecture of Difference
Sharon Zukin
- The Meta-Principles of Good Urbanism
Emily Talen
- Can Architecture Survive Our Global Housing Crisis?
Dana Cuff
- Leading with Landscape: Investing in Green Infrastructure for Resilience
Nina-Marie Lister
SECTION III – New Urban Social Geographies
- Feeling the Past: Heritage, Encounter and Engagement
Emma Waterton
- Memorials as Spaces for Engagement: Design, Use and Meaning
Karen Franck
- Health in the City
Anne Vernez Moudon
- From Housing Projects to Healing Gardens: Reflections on a Career Considering the Psychology of Place
Clare Cooper Marcus
- Enriching Places for Longevity: Does a Gender Perspective Make a Difference?
Ann Forsyth
- How Does Body Conscious Design Contribute to Urbanism?
Galen Cranz
SECTION IV – Collective City Futures – Dwellings and Cultures
- Everyday Urbanism: Public Spaces and Beyond
Margaret Crawford
- Edges and Eddies: Learning to be a High-Rise Society in Post-Independence Singapore, 1960-1995
Jane M. Jacobs and Belinda Yuen
- The Right to Housing
Adele Santos
- Story Telling with the Shapes of Time: Place, Poetry, and Local History
Dolores Hayden
- The City as a Collective Good
Saskia Sassen
- The Empathy Gap: Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy Offers
Sherry Turkle
List of Contributors
Index
About the Editor
