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Fair Shared Cities: Gender mainstreaming towards more equitable cities!

Ing. Milota Sidorovรก, PhD.!

MSQ, 10/11.6.2016!

facilitator, networker, researcher, walker and feminist born and bred on equitable urban planning

Who am I?!

Where do I (mostly) work?!

2011-2015!

Co-founder, lead coordinator!

More women than men graduate in architecture, but don’t remain in profession!

Well, why gender matters?

Architecture is gender neutral! !

Really?!

human scale: (wo)man!

Neufert!

Proper lady doesn’t stop, doesn’t smile and doesn’t look around while walking on the streets…!

Liberation through shopping malls! !

Well…

Architecture (as we were being taught) is not gender neutral at all…! !

Urban planning is influencing lives of everyone, but certain groups are benefiting significantly less…! !

What is gender mainstreaming?! • 

public policy concept of assessing the different implications for women and men of any planned policy action, including legislation and programs, in all areas and levels.!

Vienna!

• 1,7 mil. inhabitants, 23 municipal districts! !

• Green city with relatively few green open !

• spaces in the centre!

• Extensive and efficient public transport system!

• 60 % inhabitants live in subsidised social housing!

• Demography prognosis: population boom !

• Gender mainstreaming > EU norm mis 90’s - > applied in many policies including urban planning!

Do men and women move around the city similarly?!

walk bike motorbike car (driver) car (passenger) public transport

Women

Men

1999 Source: Wiener Linien, omniphon 2011!

How does that relate to unpaid work?!

household working hours Childcare working hours Paid working hours

Women

Men

Source: Women’s Department of the City of Vienna, 2005, p. 88,!

Mobility chain examples! !

Combination of paid&unpaid work, care!

Taking duties! !

Daily movement of a working individual!

Source: Manuรกl for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Planning and Urban Development!

Demography!

More than 40% inhabitants of Vienna are kids, teenagers or seniors!

Source: Mesto Viedeň, výročná správa 2011!

1.  In daily life women do most of care related works.!

2. In daily life women use public transport and walk more compared to men. !

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3. In competition about public space they need strong representation – in profession also among decisionmakers‌!

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3. In competition about public space they need strong representation – in profession also among decisionmakers‌!

1991 Exhibition: ,, Who owns the Public Space – Everyday lives of women in the city.! !

1992 Women Department, The City of Vienna! !

1998 Coordination office for planning with special regards to needs of women!

Main areas and topics of Gender mainstreaming in Vienna!

1. Gender-sensitive housing !

2. Gender-sensitive parks and mobility!

3. Gender-sensitive and safe public spaces!

4. Public buildings!

5. Urban development! !

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• Analysis and research!

• 60 pilot projects!

• Manuals, planning recommendations, participation in competitions!

1. Gender-sensitive housing !

• Frauen-Werk-Stadt I, II, III! • prototypes with regard on specific needs of women in housing!

• designed by women experts only! !

Source Manuรกl for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Planning and Urban Development

2. Gender-sensitive parks!

• 1997: „Foul Play with Opportunities? Girls into Public Space!“ socio-scientific survey -> specific interests of girls have to be considered !

• 2000: Policy as a part of strategic plan!

• 6 model parks created in participatory process with girls!

3. Gender-sensitive / safe public spaces!

even cemeteries?!

4. Gender sensitive mobility!

Source: Wiener Linien, 2015!

Supply: time / space! !

Station design! !

Info stands, stalls! !

Dynamic information about the journey! !

Elevators, escalators! !

Cars with low entry! !

Enough of storage space! !

Air-condition! !

Cleaness! !

Paths for blind and disabled!

5. Gender mainstreaming – Mariahilfer district (2002-2006) !

Mariahilf: 28.000 inhabitants, 1,5 km2, 27 km road network! !

Focus on needs of pedestrians and residents! !

Study „Fair Shared City“!

Source: Manuál for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Planning and Urban Development!

Gender mainstreaming principles in design!

Source: Manuรกl for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Planning and Urban Development!

Source Manuรกl for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Planning and Urban Development!

Mariahilfer user typology!

Zdroj: Stadtfair teilen

How do specific users move around the district?!

Transformation!

applications!

• Gender layer into the manual!

• Expanding into other groups!

• target groups!

• masculinum and feminimum!

• Female visibility as decisionmakers!

• gender mixed expert groups!

• target groups!

• masculinum and feminimum!

• gender mixed expert groups!

1.  Know your users. Do not assume you already know them. Invest into sociological research.!

2. Gender, age, social, economical, ethnical classes will create groups of a very different needs!

3 . Know their needs. Work with target groups. Representatives of communities. If there are none, ask informal ones or ngo to pin point them.!

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4. Have more women experts in public administration and decisionmakers.

They will bring more opinions and good angles.!

• research, sources, interviews,!

• women expert database !

What do you think?!

• www.wpsprague.com!

• milota@wpsprague.com!