A new planned community is built on the urban design philosophy known as ‘gender mainstreaming.’ [...]
Ms. Kail acknowledges that the parameters of gender mainstreaming are in flux. Where there used to be “a focus on the everyday life of white, middle-class women and their children,” she said, over the past decade or so, a new crop of urban planners has widened the lens, just as she’s stepping out of it.
— The New York Times
Vienna (the city previously declared by the Times to be a "renters utopia") owes a tremendous thanks to Eva Kail for its apparent equity strides. Though recently retired, the urban planner touts the new Aspern Seestadt development and its "female face" as the embodiment of the movement to infuse gender-conscious urban design concepts to socially engineer cities and suburbs into places of empowerment for women and other traditionally marginalized groups and classes.
The leading cities to embrace the movement toward "gender mainstreaming" include Stockholm, Glasgow, and Barcelona. In line with this movement, the UN-Habtitat also quietly announced the launch of its 'Women-led Cities' initiative last June.
![Community-built market completed in northern Ghana by [a]FA](https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dc/dc5b666d1adccc5af343c18ab8a74061.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=248&h=147 "Community-built market completed in northern Ghana by [a]FA")
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These articles are always using 'white women' and 'white men' as a pejorative, and then advocate for things pioneered by mostly white men and white women. They are in Vienna for flucks sake.
Apartment buildings that had poor lighting, no stroller space, etc are just poorly designed. If women designers are bringing more insight, good for them. But a lot of these social housing and park in the city trends were already started by European male designers.
Seems more a young creatives returning to the city trend. They got bored of perfectly fine, walkable, safe, child-friendly suburbs and want to live in density (in their 20s-30s) but also want design amenities until they return to the burbs.
Either way, these social housing schemes can end up being poverty traps unless they are close to economic activity, car garages, and ample shopping and with owners not renters or economically challenged people.
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