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Direct Link to Full 15-Page 2015 Article:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13552074.2015.1014206
Using Feminist Participatory Methods to
Increase Women's Participation in Urban Planning
Authors
Editor
Sweetman,
Caroline
Women have been often invisible in urban
planning. Col·lectiu Punt 6, a feminist organisation of women architects and
urban planners based in Barcelona, Spain, has developed planning techniques and
tools to include women both as objects and subjects of urban planning, and as
experts of everyday life. The article focuses on the participatory tools that
Col·lectiu Punt 6 has developed that can be used in the different stages of
planning, from assessing to evaluating planning policies and interventions, as
well as tools of women’s empowerment with the goal of promoting bottom-up
models of planning. Evidence is shown of how, using these tools, planning
becomes more inclusive not only of women in their diversity, but also of
children, youth, the elderly, as well as people of different race, ethnicity,
income, sexual and gender identities, and capacities. Examples from different
contexts are provided, from Spain and Latin America