Aspects

Gender aspects in building and urban planning

Public / private: Towns and cities are spaces for human beings who carry on various activities. This is served by infrastructural policy. If this neglects the gender perspective, then traditionally female reproduction work and provision economy will be infrastructurally disadvantaged in favour of male-dominated production work. GM tools show the way to a balanced shaping of the private provision economy and the official work economy.

Spaces: Public and private spaces are used differently by women and men, girls and boys. GM enables spaces such as playgrounds and recreational spaces to be designed without dangers and barriers and public and private own spaces for women and men, girls and boys to be created in the same quantity and with the same quality. The necessity of reducing supervision by adults – in most cases mothers – and increasing the danger-free mobility of children on their own in public spaces should be given consideration here.
Safety: There is a greater gap for women than for men between the subjective feeling of safety and objective threat in public spaces. Women are more frequently the victims of sexual harassment and assaults than men, while men are more frequently the victims of physical violence (mostly by other men). GM provides tools with which spaces can be designed from the outset in the planning and construction processes in such a way that sexual hierarchy violence and sexualised violence can be reduced. This raises the question of how and exactly for whom public spaces can be enlivened and made safe by the committed action of citizens themselves.
Planning: Women are mostly significantly under-represented in urban planning compared to men. GM systematically poses the question as to how the participation of women in public planning procedures, subsidised projects, public sector projects and projects with special public protection can be raised quantitatively and qualitatively to the same level as that of men at all levels of hierarchy.
Needs: Transport infrastructure planning is tailored to the needs of the male full-time worker who moves at fixed times between mono-functional areas of living and working, while everyday family life means mobility between various destinations at irregular times. This involves gender-specific inequalities in access to which means of transport at what times and by which routes.

Aspects

Gender aspects in building and urban planning

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