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How to Build Public Spaces for Teen Girls
Teen girls have unique needs and experiences that are often left out of our built environment. Explore three projects across the world as they share how they are transforming public spaces for teen girls (and how you can too!)
Pedalling Against the Patriarchy
Women face significant barriers to cycling, such as safety, harassment, and gender norms. To encourage more women to get on two wheels, there is a great deal of work required to address patriarchal systems and design.
How to Create Parks for the People
Parks are typically designed to meet children’s needs, but how can these spaces also meet the needs of parents, teen girls, and the community? Folkets Park, also known as “The People’s Park”, demonstrates how.
The Feminist Case to Stop the Sprawl
Building dense, affordable, and sustainable communities within the existing urban boundaries is key to addressing inequalities and reducing emissions in Canadian cities.
Five Women in Urbanism Transforming Cities at Urban Futures 22
As a participant in the Young Leaders Programme at Urban Futures 2022 in Helsingborg, Sweden, I had the opportunity to speak and listen to women across the world making transformative change.
Understanding Gender Beyond the Binary
Navigating sex and gender can be complex. Understanding the different experiences of women, girls, transwomen, non-binary, two-spirit, and femmes helps us to address inequalities and build more inclusive cities.
Feminist Cities are also Deaf-Friendly Cities
Feminist interventions work to serve people with multiple identities and social factors. Here is how they also serve individuals who experience deafness.
Building Cities for Kids Benefits Everyone
Kids need safe ways to get around, close access to friends, and spaces for play. Building cities for kids makes them more fun, safe, and equitable for everyone.
Sustainable Cities are Feminist Cities
Feminist interventions for housing, transportation, and green infrastructure provide great promise for emission reductions, all while addressing inequalities and making cities more livable for everyone.
Cold Places can Create Warm Public Spaces
Can a cold, snowy Canadian city be built for people? The Nestaweya River Trail reimagines what a winter city could be.
No Equity in the Car-Centric City
Prioritizing personal vehicles over all other modes of transportation creates mobility barriers for everyone, especially marginalized communities.
All the Ways Women get from A to B
Men and women have different mobility patterns, needs, and behaviours. Here are some of the unique ways that women move.
If it’s not Intersectional, it’s not a Feminist City
Many traditional feminist interventions prioritize wealthy, white women over others. An intersectional approach is needed to ensure feminist cities are truly for everyone.
Feminist Cities are Cities for Everyone
Dismantling the patriarchy one curb-cut, bike lane, and planter at a time
How the Patriarchy was Cemented into Cities
The segregation of paid and unpaid labour between men and women shaped our cities to exclude the needs of anyone who was not a working man.
The Way we Shape Cities, Shapes us
We have built cities that make us sad, unhealthy, and poor - but, we have the power to transform them, and ourselves.
How it all Started
How we got here and where we are going. We are so glad that you are here.