A fundamental work on gender in urban planning, this book was the first in the Spanish language to systematically address gender perspectives into the fields of urban and territorial planning, from the local to the regional scales, and across the substantive domains of the built environment.
The book provides a concise and accessible theoretical framework, providing a normative model of a reasonably compact city within a polycentric region well served by infrastructures for everyday life, building on the concept of care. It identifies the key gender dimensions relevant to the substantive topics of spatial planning, from housing to transportation, from facilities to public space, at different scales from the neighborhood to the region. It analyses the gender dimensions of key planning process, from data collection, to zoning, from participation to evaluation.
It includes a series of practical recommendations for addressing these gender dimensions within territorial and urban planning processes at all scales.
Examples of good practice are provided as illustration, and a list of key international references suggests further reading.