Chapter 7: Conclusion

To build a more equitable or shared city – one that can accommodate everyone – we need to be more thoughtful of who we are creating and planning for. We need to know how women in municipal leadership roles are changing the way our cities are shaped, and whether a city that provides for both men and women equally looks any different than a city that is developing as usual. The necessity for these spaces to be built with the involvement of all users is reflected in concepts like as inclusive master planning, human-cantered design, and co-design. It all comes down to developing a strong sense of empathy for the people you're planning for and alongside, and understanding that what defines quality of life varies from location to place, community to community, and throughout the course of a person's life. To be inviting and helpful to the whole community, planning and design must take accessibility into account. If we want communities to own, care for, and share their common places, this is essential. More diversified land uses, better and more accessible public transportation (that can accommodate a variety of patterns and multi-journey excursions), safety and security, and the co-location of social infrastructure are all priorities Short-distance cities - these are significant factors in making cities more female-friendly and, more crucially, inclusive cities for all. Policies, projects, and tools must be tailored to the local context and specific thematic issues, broad tactics can be utilised to address a wide range of gender issues. The measures listed below work together to combat the prejudice and exclusion that women face in cities, while showing the way forward in terms of designing cities that empower women and girls by involving them in decisionmaking and urban planning and design. 1. Examine gender issues in relevant programmes, policies, campaigns, and organisations. 2. Increase data collecting based on gender. 3. Ensure that gender mainstreaming is incorporated into all national and local policies. 4. Promote women's engagement and empowerment at the grassroots level.

5. Encourage men and boys to speak out in support of women's rights and gender equality. 6. Establish methods for women's monitoring (observatories) on gender equality. 7. Make public areas that are gender-sensitive and inclusive 8. Ensure well planned and managed public transportation, water and sanitary systems. 9. Provide gender-sensitive training to key city stakeholders (police, traffic officers, urban planners, and national and local government officials). 10. Promote more mixed land-use to ensure ‘eye on the street’ concept which contributes to public safety. Women's knowledge and leadership must be incorporated and benefited from in environmental policies, programmes, and budgets, as well as women being supported as they face today's tremendous environmental challenges. If given the necessary tools and assistance women are a driving force for the new, more egalitarian, and more sustainable model of growth. Recommendations- as far as we came to establish gender equality, to create genderjust sustainable cities, we need to see through a gendered lens at every stage, from general behaviour and labour division to decision making, female involvement or more correctively, involvement of feminist perspective is required. Following are some important areas which can be improved for a greater impact – 1) Improvising the design of public spaces for women elderly and specially able by widening the footpaths, adding different activity spaces and benches, and providing well maintained universal toilets. 2) Adequate Street lighting, not dim not too bright. 3) Improve public transport route and quality. 4) Educate people about human rights and gender equality. 5) Educate citizens about climate change and ecologically sustainable products and practices. 6) Prioritizing ecological sustainability in development goals. 7) Most importantly as society, brush off gender stereotypes.