"Feminist City" Author Leslie Kern on Envisioning More Equitable Urban Spaces

What is a feminist city? Who is a feminist city for? How do
different groups of people experience the cities we live in now?
And what does it all mean in a world inching toward recovery from
the COVID-19 pandemic? Author Leslie Kern comes on the People
Behind the Plans podcast series to untangle these questions with
host Courtney Kashima, AICP.


Leslie is the director of women and gender studies and an
associate professor of geography and environment at Mount Allison
University. Her latest book is Feminist City: Claiming Space in a
Man-Made World. In it, she argues that cities have long been
sites for grappling with social questions about how we live and
relate to each other, and gender has been at the top of the list
of those concerns. The two explore the myriad challenges women
face living in and navigating spaces built largely for a narrow
subset of the population, and they close their discussion by
sharing tips for planners looking to increase gender equity in
their urban — or regional, suburban, or rural — spheres.


Episode URL:
https://planning.org/podcast/feminist-city-author-leslie-kern-on-envisioning-more-equitable-urban-spaces/