Spatial planning can only deliver a safe, healthy and sustainable environment for all if it is sensitive to the needs of all, which means taking into account the different roles women and men have in society and the different expectations and requirements they have from the planning system.
Nobody could argue with that principle, but what does it mean in practice? What does planning policy look like when viewed through a gender lens, how do we plan on a gender inclusive basis at a city-wide scale and what does that look like on the ground?
This episode has been put together by Sam Stafford (@samuel_stafford) with the help of Women in Planning (@womeninplanning) and the Royal Town Planning Institute to mark International Women's Day. It is comprised of three parts that will tackle those questions by way of three separate conversations.
In Part 1 you will hear Shelly Rouse (@rouse_shelly) talk to Karen Horwood (@karenhhorwood) and Natalya Palit (@natpalit) about women in planning, woman and planning and gender mainstreaming.
In Part 2 you will hear Phoebe Threlfall and Katie Shoosmith (@KFluzza) talk to Holly Bruce (@cllrhollybruce) about Holly’s ambition to make Glasgow a Feminist City.
And in Part 3 you will hear Vicky Payne (@Victoria_Payne) talk to Imogen Clark, Helen Fadipe (@hfadipe) and Katie Wray (@kluw) about making space for girls. At the end of that segment you can also look forward to Vicky getting on the 50 Shades soapbox.
Some accompanying reading.
Make Space For Girls' Research Report 2023
https://www.makespaceforgirls.co.uk/resources/research-report-2023
RTPI Material:
Feminist City - Claiming Space in a Man-made World, by Leslie Kern
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3842-feminist-city
The substantive and descriptive representation of women in planning: analysis from practice and academia
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/tpr.2022.12
Gender mainstreaming in urban planning: What can the UK learn from Vienna with regards to adopting a gender mainstreaming approach to shape built outcomes?
https://www.rtpi.org.uk/media/4471/george-pepler-report_200301_final.pdf
World Bank Gender Inclusive Urban Planning and Design-
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/handbook-for-gender-inclusive-urban-planning-and-design
Women-Friendly Urban Planning Toolkit
https://www.citiesalliance.org/resources/publications/cities-alliance-knowledge/women-friendly-urban-planning-toolkit#:~:text=Cities%20Alliance%20is%20launching%20the,and%20voices%20in%20urban%20planning
Some accompanying viewing
What would a city designed by women be like?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-50269778
What is a feminist city and where in the UK is becoming one?
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-02-28/how-does-a-place-become-the-uks-first-feminist-city
Some accompanying listening
The Visible Women Podcast with Caroline Criado Perez
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/visible-women-with-caroline-criado-perez/id1627229311
A Leeds Beckett podcast in which Karen considers how we can plan towns and cities better for women and girls.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/we-inspire-2-sustainable-cities/id1547786504?i=1000550421074
Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill (Shelly's choice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0oeqAQ1qE8
50 Shades T-Shirts!
If you have listened to Episode 45 of the 50 Shades of Planning Podcast you will have heard Clive Betts say that...
'In the Netherlands planning is seen as part of the solution. In the UK, too often, planning is seen as part of the problem'.
Sam said in reply that that would look good on a t-shirt and it does. Further details can be found here: http://samuelstafford.blogspot.com/2021/07/50-shades-of-planning-t-shirts.html
