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if Women Designed the City?Contemporary
cities can both limit and empower women.East,
May. What If Women Designed the City?: 33 Leverage Points to Make Your City
Work Better for Women and Girls. Axminster, UK: Triarchy Press, 2024. Sources:https://www.triarchypress.net/whatifwomen.html#:~:text=%22What%20if%20Women%20Designed%20the%20Cities%3F,communities%2C%20allowing%20everyone%20to%20flourish.https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/112706/https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2024/01/08/what-if-women-designed-the-city-a-voyage-from-brutalism-to-biophilia/Globally,
only 5% of city leadership positions and 10% of senior architecture and urban
planning positions are held by women. The inadequacy of gender expertise in
urban planning has meant that women's access to essential services and economic
opportunities has too often been an afterthought in the design of urban
environments. This gap has led to serious inconveniences, and at times dangers,
for women, children, and gender mi
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