EAN: 9783319525327

GENDER IN THE POST-FORDIST URBAN - MARGUERITE V...

This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on
feminist urban studies  it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding
the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western
urban gender relations  arguing that in the post-Fordist urban landscape gender is used for
urban planning and public policy - both to rebrand a city's image and to produce space for
gender-equal ideals  often at the cost of precarious urban populations. This is a topic that
remains largely unexplored in critical urban studies and radical geography. Chapters cover how
Jane Jacobs' perspectives provide an alternative to the patriarchal modernist city for
contemporary planners and using Rotterdam as a case study Van Den Berg discusses why new urban
planning methods focus on attracting women and children as new urbanites. Topics include: forms
of place marketing  gender as a repertoire for contemporary urban Imagineering and the concept
of urban re-generation. The final chapter investigates how cities aiming to redefine themselves
imagine future populations and how they design social policies that explicitly and particularly
target women as mothers. Scholars in all fields of urban studies will find this work
thought-provoking  instructive and informative.

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