Helen Jarvis (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK), Jonathan Cloke, Paula Kantor

Cities and Gender

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It looks behind the 'headlines' on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, and regeneration.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415415705
• ISBN-10: 0415415705
• Artikelnr.: 25683532

Autorenporträt

Helen Jarvis is lecturer in human geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Paula Kantor is Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, based in Kabul Jonathan Cloke is Research Associate for the Global and World Cities Group within the Geography Department at Loughborough University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Approaching the City 1. From Binaries to Intersections
2. Historical Trends in Cities and Urban Studies 3. Trends in Urban
Restructuring, Gender and Feminist Theory 4. Scale, Power and
Interdependence Part 2: Gender and the Built Environment 5. Infrastructures
of Daily Life 6. Migration, Movement and Mobility 7. Homes, Jobs,
Communities and Networks Part 3: Representation and Regulation 8. Planning
and Social Welfare 9. Urban Poverty, Livelihood and Vulnerability 10.
Cities and Gender - Politics in Practice