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Women's lives and the making of the city: Experiences from 'north' and 'south' of Europe

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dc.contributor.author Simonsen, K en
dc.contributor.author Vaiou, D en
dc.date.accessioned 2014-03-01T01:12:32Z
dc.date.available 2014-03-01T01:12:32Z
dc.date.issued 1996 en
dc.identifier.issn 0309-1317 en
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/12116
dc.subject.classification Geography en
dc.subject.classification Planning & Development en
dc.subject.classification Urban Studies en
dc.subject.other GENDER RELATIONS en
dc.subject.other SPACE en
dc.subject.other GENTRIFICATION en
dc.subject.other PLACE en
dc.subject.other LIFE en
dc.title Women's lives and the making of the city: Experiences from 'north' and 'south' of Europe en
heal.type journalArticle en
heal.identifier.primary 10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00327.x en
heal.identifier.secondary http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00327.x en
heal.language English en
heal.publicationDate 1996 en
heal.abstract In mainstream debates on 'the urban question', both at the peak period of the 'new urban theory' in the 1970s and in the more recent. analyses of urban restructuring, certain biases can be observed along the following two lines of argument. First, there is a deprioritization of the social practices and social lives of urban citizens as relevant dimensions in urban development. Second, the dominant themes, pertaining to be gender-neutral, are nonetheless based on the value of the adult male's activities and experiences of urban development. In this paper, we begin our enquiries with women's lives and women's experiences and forward an approach that sees urban space as both peopled and gendered. An emphasis on everyday practices and experiences leads us to a methodological approach which proceeds through different levels of abstraction - from descriptions of women's lives, through empirical analysis of the lives of groups of women, towards the development of conceptual dimensions by the help of which urban development and women's roles in the making of the city can be approached and interpreted. In order to think through these levels and develop (a first approximation of) relevant conceptual categories, we draw from two historically and geographically different contexts of urban development: women's lives from parts of the cities of Copenhagen and Athens. This way of proceeding from concrete experiences to more abstract concepts and taking gender seriously, we would argue, reshuffles priorities and leads to a different understanding of urban structure and urban development. en
heal.publisher BLACKWELL PUBL LTD en
heal.journalName International Journal of Urban and Regional Research en
dc.identifier.doi 10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00327.x en
dc.identifier.isi ISI:A1996VH22200005 en
dc.identifier.volume 20 en
dc.identifier.issue 3 en
dc.identifier.spage 446 en
dc.identifier.epage 465 en


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