Women-led Cities - ECFCo-founder, Women Led Cities Initiative @think_katrina More than 50% of the...
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Women-led Cities: The role of women in the
urbanism movement and the Right to the City for everyone
Katrina Johnston-ZimmermanLindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel University
Co-founder, Women Led Cities Initiative@think_katrina
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More than 50% of the world’s population are women but they have never had the opportunity to lead the shaping and management of our cities in 10,000 years of urbanism
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That means all cities throughout our collective history
- everything out your window now - was essentially imagined
and made real by one half of our species.
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“It’s like we walked into a man’s bathroom.”
Valentine Njoroge, a feminist writer from Kenya
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“We still live in sexist and patriarchal cities [...] but right now we have the opportunity for those individuals who have traditionally been let down as “second-class citizens” to become the main characters.”
Ada Colau, first female mayor of Barcelona
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// Gender equityin public space
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// More than an“indicator species”
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// Car-free Cities
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“The increasing number of women now planning and designing cities are rewriting the rulebook and breaking the car-obsessed traffic dogma that’s kept streets unchanged for half a century, ”
Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates consultant, former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation, and author of “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.”
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// If you plan for women and girls, you plan for everyone
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// We cannot be what we cannot see
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// With greater diversity of inputYou can only have a better output
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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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// The future (of cities) is female