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Research with a gender approach

We understand that finding specific data about nighttime urban planning with a gender approach can be challenging and some times exhausting. Because of this, NTT has been gathering information related to this topic and designing this page to display all the research visually. We hope this helps you to have a more friendly approach to the information.

All the research gathered here is related to urban design with a gender approach; some of this information is specific to the nighttime period and others are related to urban design without the time distinction. Additionally, the information is divided into four categories so you can easily see what the main topic is about.

The categories are: (1) women’s safety related to the perception of security, (2) women and cities about how women dwell in cities, (3) gender approach projects developed with a women-centred design and (4) nighttime design-specific information about urban planning in the after-dark period with a gender approach.

Finally, when you pass your mouse over the pictures, you are going to see a small description of each piece of information, the year in which was published and the type of content –article, interview, handbook, paper, mapping, research, collective data and intervention– so you can have an overview of the information before deep in the whole content.

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Free To Be - Archive Map

"The Free To Be project is a collaboration between Plan International Australia and CrowdSpot. The original project crowdsourced the safety-related experiences and emotions of young women in Melbourne during the last 3 month of 2016. This map is an archive of the stories shared."

Mapping, 2016

@CrowdSpot

English

Women safety

The Handbook for Gender-Inclusive Urban Planning and Design

"...seeks to respond to these urgent questions: how might we design and plan cities that work well for everyone? What would such a city look like, and how would we go about creating it?"

Handbook, 2019

@TheWorldBank

English

Women and cities

What Can Cities Imagined by Women Look Like? The Case of Barcelona

"With basic different needs, men and women expect different outcomes from their urban surroundings. A city should be able to fulfill everyone’s essentials."

Article, 2019

@ArchDaily

English

Women and cities

Lighting the way for women and girls: a new narrative for lighting design in cities

"To make our cities more inclusive, safe and sustainable, we wanted to understand how lighting affects perceptions of safety in a city at night for women and girls."

Research, 2022

@ARUP

English

Nighttime design

Safeti Pin: Supporting Safer Cities

"Safetipin is a social organisation working with a wide range of urban stakeholders including governments to make public spaces safer and more inclusive for women. We collect data using our 3 mobile phone applications (My Safetipin, Safetipin Nite and Safetipin Site) and present this to relevant stakeholders with recommendations."

Collective data, 2016-2019

@SafetiPin

English

Women safety

Better street lighting alone won’t make our cities safer for women

"The government needs to look beyond an emphasis on just policing: we need to address urban design on a more profound and strategic level. Visible changes, for example, are far more likely to reassure women."

Article, 2021

@AJ Architects’ Journal

English

Women safety

Putting women at the centre of urban planning

"We put women at the centre of all our development plans... This translated into a focus on expanding daycare centre facilities, revamping public spaces as well remodelling public toilets."

Article, 2019

@TheHindu

English

Women and cities

How Vienna designed a city for women

"To work out how women’s urban needs differ from men’s, gender differentiated data is essential. Vienna's government has gathered information in several ways. The first qualitative analysis came with a photography exhibit in the early 1990s on how women use the city, which was part of the inspiration behind setting up a City Women’s Office."

Article, 2017

@apolitical

English

Women and cities

Why aren’t we designing cities that work for women, not just men?

"It’s not just transportation systems; women and men use public spaces, buildings, and even access basic services differently. In areas where resources of all kinds are more limited, these disparities become especially acute, affecting women’s safety, movement and income."

Article, 2016

@TheGuardian

English

Women and cities

How to Design a City for Women

"Gender can be an emotional issue," Bauer adds. "When you tell people that up until now they haven’t taken the women’s perspective into account they feel attacked. We still have people asking, ‘Is this really necessary?'"

Article, 2013

@Shutterstock

English

Women and cities

A decade of making public spaces safe for women and girls

"We always talk about percentages of women that have been subjected to some form of sexual harassment, but we need to also speak out on the number of men that have been perpetrators in these situations. It is evident that the existing power inequality is, at the end of the day, the cause of sexual harassment. Therefore, we have to work with men and boys and work on positive masculinity."

Interview, 2020

@UNWomen

English

Women safety

The UK figured out how to design safer streets for women in the 1980s—and abandoned the effort

"Horrifying public crimes can, and do, occur in well-lighted subway stations when no effective eyes are present. They virtually never occur in darkened theaters where many people and eyes are present. Street lights can be like that famous stone that falls in the desert where there are no ears to hear. Does it make a noise? Not for practical purposes."

Article, 2021

@QARTZ

English

Women safety

A Walk in a Woman’s Shoes: Re-thinking Lighting in Urban Nightscapes

"For women, a simple act of walking back home at the end of the night involves being always on the look out, where the feeling of fear is a part of their everyday routine."

Paper, 2019

@TheNewSchoolParsons

English

Nighttime design

A city for women (not just the 'default male')

"As city-makers, we can be part of challenging the falsehood of ‘normalness’ and create more inclusive cities. By applying ethnographic and user research to design and policy, we can shift beyond assumptions and begin to gather meaningful data about what people need from the urban experience."

Article, 2020

@ARUP

English

Women and cities

Designing gender-inclusive cities that work for all

“We all have different needs and routines when it comes to our access to the city. However, if the city is built for the ‘neutral’ male user, it neglects the needs, interests, and routines of women, girls, and sexual and gender minorities in the city."

Article, 2020

@TheWorldBank

English

Women and cities

Urbanism with a gender perspective, the challenge that Bogotá must face

"We have to be able to position the walk for women, which means that the city is safe at any time, at least on the most important and busiest routes, and this is a matter of broad urban design that goes beyond of mobility and public space issues"

Article, 2020

@ElTiempo

Spanish

Women and cities

The Streets of Women

"Map of streets named after women in cities in Latin America and Spain, to make visible the gap that exists in the representation of female figures in cities."

Mapping, 2018

@Geochicas

Spanish

Women and cities

Renewal and regeneration of public space through tactical urbanism with a gender approach in Bogotá

"I move safely is a campaign by the District Secretariat for Women to improve the prevention of violence against women in public spaces...This project in particular has a gender focus, but it turns out that when you design for women, you design for everyone,..."

Intervention, 2020

@ArchDaily

Spanish

Gender approach

Women and Public Space in Bogotá, Colombia: ‘A Field of Battles, of Risk and of Fear’

"...presents some of the results of an investigation aiming to determine in which way the women of Bogotá use urban public spaces. It is based on a fundamental premise: urban regions are not a place of neutrality but rather involve unequal relations between men and women."

Paper, 2020

@GeronimoGiqueauxUnsplash

Spanish

Women and cities

Gender approach and appropriation of public space

"The existence of a public space does not guarantee its use. In this sense, the participation of women in social activities, promoted at first by the municipality and later by the citizens, stimulated the appropriation of space."

Article, 2022

@CríticaUrbana

Spanish

Women and cities

The development of public spaces with a gender approach, a latent need in societies

"...public space is not designed from a gender perspective to make women's lives as simple as men's. Examples of how public space in our cities does not work today for women is that they must change their habits more than men,..."

Article, 2019

@PactoDeAlcaldes

Spanish

Women and cities

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