Book Summary
There is little doubt that urban planning has failed women. To extricate the profession from the patriarchy, it is necessary to revisit the preconceptions that underpinned early efforts to envision new cities or improve existing cities. This book discusses and critiques the work of twenty male planning luminaries who proposed urban models, interventions, and approaches on both sides of the North Atlantic during the Second Industrial Revolution. The authors argue that these early visions and ideas, presented as emancipatory and even utopian, set European and North American cities (and their colonial counterparts) on an inexorable masculinist path. The book also highlights the work of several female activists and reformers from the same era, many of whom strove to create better built environments for women, though they rarely envisioned full-blown urban utopias or produced extensive writings on planning issues.
About the Authors
Dorina Pojani is an Associate Professor of urban planning at The University of Queensland.
Catherine Keys is a Senior Lecturer in architecture and a practicing artist.
Rory Little is an urban planning student at The University of Queensland, Australia.
About Anthem Press
Anthem Press is a leading medium-sized independent academic, professional and trade publisher in established and emerging social sciences, business/law and humanities fields of study with a strong international and interdisciplinary focus.
