How do women live in violent urban neighbourhoods? Recent studies have shown that women have a capacity for action in urban neighbourhoods characterized by violence due to the presence and activities of criminal groups (Hume, 2009; Tickner et al., 2020; Wilding, 2010). This article contributes to this ongoing discussion by examining women community leaders' work in low-income, gang-controlled urban neighbourhoods in Medellín, Colombia. The article shows that women community leaders' work is based on care practices, understood as activities to improve the quality of life and live 'the best way possible' (Tronto 1993, p. 101) in the neighbourhood. Women community leaders' care practices, I argue, in fluence the access and/or use of the built environment in violent urban neighbourhoods. Their practices transform socio-spatial relations and establish an alternative way of navigating the built environment of their neighbourhoods.
{"title":"Responding with Care Women Community Leaders' Care Practices in Gang-Controlled Neighbourhoods in Medellín, Colombia","authors":"Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.4.614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.4.614","url":null,"abstract":"How do women live in violent urban neighbourhoods? Recent studies have shown that women have a capacity for action in urban neighbourhoods characterized by violence due to the presence and activities of criminal groups (Hume, 2009; Tickner et al., 2020; Wilding, 2010). This article contributes to this ongoing discussion by examining women community leaders' work in low-income, gang-controlled urban neighbourhoods in Medellín, Colombia. The article shows that women community leaders' work is based on care practices, understood as activities to improve the quality of life and live 'the best way possible' (Tronto 1993, p. 101) in the neighbourhood. Women community leaders' care practices, I argue, in fluence the access and/or use of the built environment in violent urban neighbourhoods. Their practices transform socio-spatial relations and establish an alternative way of navigating the built environment of their neighbourhoods.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"50 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139131069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the role of planning in addressing concerns about safety for women. The paper recognizes that safety has once again become a ma er of public interest in the UK. We examine the ways in which safety has been included within the UK Women and Planning Movement in the past, and the ways it is being articulated today. We argue that a narrow focus on safety is problematic and fails to engage with the breadth of the Women and Planning Movement. We use Sen's (1992) Capability Model to propose ways in which a focus on safety be improved through a more holistic engagement with the Women and Planning Movement's insights. We conclude that doing so will address many of the wicked (Ri el and Weber, 1973) issues planners seek to respond to.
本文探讨了规划在解决妇女安全问题方面的作用。本文认为，在英国，安全问题再次成为公众关注的焦点。我们研究了过去英国妇女与规划运动将安全问题纳入其中的方式，以及如今对其进行阐述的方式。我们认为，狭隘地关注安全问题是有问题的，它未能涉及 "妇女与规划运动 "的广度。我们利用森（Sen，1992 年）的能力模型，提出了通过更全面地吸收妇女与规划运动的见解来改进对安全的关注的方法。我们的结论是，这样做可以解决规划者寻求应对的许多棘手问题（Ri el 和 Weber，1973 年）。
{"title":"Women's Safety A Consideration of the Role of Planning through the Capability Model","authors":"K. Horwood, Charlotte Morphet","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.4.633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.4.633","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the role of planning in addressing concerns about safety for women. The paper recognizes that safety has once again become a ma er of public interest in the UK. We examine the ways in which safety has been included within the UK Women and Planning Movement in the past, and the ways it is being articulated today. We argue that a narrow focus on safety is problematic and fails to engage with the breadth of the Women and Planning Movement. We use Sen's (1992) Capability Model to propose ways in which a focus on safety be improved through a more holistic engagement with the Women and Planning Movement's insights. We conclude that doing so will address many of the wicked (Ri el and Weber, 1973) issues planners seek to respond to.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"109 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139133752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Women-Led Urbanism New Agenda, New Priorities","authors":"Lauren Andres, Lucy Natarajan","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.4.545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.4.545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":" 363","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139136912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When analysing how cities and public facilities – especially public bathrooms – are designed, gendered perspectives are often neglected. This paper investigates the eff ects of the inaccessibility of public bathrooms on women's lives in London. Informed by a feminist lens, the research shows that many public bathrooms are inaccessible and unsafe, making it women's priority to avoid bathrooms throughout the day. This has effects on women's health and their understanding of bodily sensations. This inaccessibility leads women to plan ahead, limiting their ability to be spontaneous within public spaces, and using 'just in case' visits to bathroom facilities before leaving a place to minimize the risk of having to look for one later in the day. (In-)accessibility of public bathrooms is a long-lasting issue which has been translated into the creation of a cross-generational, non-formal bathroom education between women of diff erent generations. Overall, tensions and difficulties arising from women's (in-)accessibility to decent bathroom facilities means that their basic human rights are often denied, and their everyday life signi ficantly aff ected. As a response to such intersectional inequalities, women develop adaptative strategies, fostering their resilience as they reclaim their urban and public life.
{"title":"I Need to Pee! Gender Inequalities and (In-)Accessibility of Public Restrooms in London","authors":"Clara Eirich","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.4.651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.4.651","url":null,"abstract":"When analysing how cities and public facilities – especially public bathrooms – are designed, gendered perspectives are often neglected. This paper investigates the eff ects of the inaccessibility of public bathrooms on women's lives in London. Informed by a feminist lens, the research shows that many public bathrooms are inaccessible and unsafe, making it women's priority to avoid bathrooms throughout the day. This has effects on women's health and their understanding of bodily sensations. This inaccessibility leads women to plan ahead, limiting their ability to be spontaneous within public spaces, and using 'just in case' visits to bathroom facilities before leaving a place to minimize the risk of having to look for one later in the day. (In-)accessibility of public bathrooms is a long-lasting issue which has been translated into the creation of a cross-generational, non-formal bathroom education between women of diff erent generations. Overall, tensions and difficulties arising from women's (in-)accessibility to decent bathroom facilities means that their basic human rights are often denied, and their everyday life signi ficantly aff ected. As a response to such intersectional inequalities, women develop adaptative strategies, fostering their resilience as they reclaim their urban and public life.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"2 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139132860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines gender role reversal within Syrian refugee households through waiting modalities and rhythmic practices amongst Syrian female refugees living in informal tented se lements (ITSs) along the Lebanese–Syrian borderscape. The dominant traditional male role that was observed during the pre-Syrian war appears to rescind due to a new socio-economic status that female refugees gained in their waiting to return home. The ethnographic study revealed that female refugees performed new labour tasks and assumed new roles both inside and outside the ITSs whether working with host community members or assisting multisectoral agencies. In being productive, they transformed their passive waiting into an active waiting through cultural habits and daily practices. Their shrouded skills became unlocked. Gender empowerment is therefore constantly negotiated and renegotiated due to temporary coping mechanisms and forms of resiliency. This paper uses a multi-fold framework and deconstructs empowerment from a cultural and contextual perspective. The investigation of self-determination, sense of agency, and independence is performed through a Lefebvrian 'rhythmanalysis' lens (2013) present in the women's daily and seasonal activities.
{"title":"Empowerment through Waiting Modalities The Transformation of Syrian Female Refugees' Activities and Productivity in Lebanese Informal Tented Settlements","authors":"Paul Moawad","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.4.579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.4.579","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines gender role reversal within Syrian refugee households through waiting modalities and rhythmic practices amongst Syrian female refugees living in informal tented se lements (ITSs) along the Lebanese–Syrian borderscape. The dominant traditional male role that was observed during the pre-Syrian war appears to rescind due to a new socio-economic status that female refugees gained in their waiting to return home. The ethnographic study revealed that female refugees performed new labour tasks and assumed new roles both inside and outside the ITSs whether working with host community members or assisting multisectoral agencies. In being productive, they transformed their passive waiting into an active waiting through cultural habits and daily practices. Their shrouded skills became unlocked. Gender empowerment is therefore constantly negotiated and renegotiated due to temporary coping mechanisms and forms of resiliency. This paper uses a multi-fold framework and deconstructs empowerment from a cultural and contextual perspective. The investigation of self-determination, sense of agency, and independence is performed through a Lefebvrian 'rhythmanalysis' lens (2013) present in the women's daily and seasonal activities.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":" 1085","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139136532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing on data from two distinct ethnographic research projects, in this article I examine the equation of home, house, and security, as implied in the stay-at-home COVID-19 pandemic mandate. My investigation involving domestic workers in Bogotá revealed that the house is not necessarily a safe space and can sometimes even become a trap. Women's everyday lives are constrained by local labour dynamics, gender paradigms, socio-economic diff erentiation, and urban segregation, while their ontological security hinges on the proximity of close social relations. Meanwhile, research in social housing compounds demonstrates that the built environment can contribute positively to low-income residents' wellbeing. These socio-spatial contexts apparently fostered latent communal bonds that were activated during the pandemic crisis. Supported by feminist critique, which underscores the inseparable connection between the domestic and labour sphere, anthropological research that examines the diverse meanings of house and home urban research, elucidating the role of the built environment in our experience of ontological security, I argue that the home is not an independent cell, containing people within brick-and-mortar con fines. Instead, it emerges as a fluid, interlinked, and expansive realm, de fined by processes beyond the physical edi fice. To build more humane cities that off er ontological security and contribute to the wellbeing of all residents, a paradigm shift is imperative: one that situates this expanded concept of 'home' at the centre of conceiving living environments that not only accommodate, but also nurture interpersonal bonds.
{"title":"Home, Shelter, Trap Experiences of Pandemic Con finement in Bogotá, Colombia","authors":"Friederike Fleischer","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.4.596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.4.596","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on data from two distinct ethnographic research projects, in this article I examine the equation of home, house, and security, as implied in the stay-at-home COVID-19 pandemic mandate. My investigation involving domestic workers in Bogotá revealed that the house is not necessarily a safe space and can sometimes even become a trap. Women's everyday lives are constrained by local labour dynamics, gender paradigms, socio-economic diff erentiation, and urban segregation, while their ontological security hinges on the proximity of close social relations. Meanwhile, research in social housing compounds demonstrates that the built environment can contribute positively to low-income residents' wellbeing. These socio-spatial contexts apparently fostered latent communal bonds that were activated during the pandemic crisis. Supported by feminist critique, which underscores the inseparable connection between the domestic and labour sphere, anthropological research that examines the diverse meanings of house and home urban research, elucidating the role of the built environment in our experience of ontological security, I argue that the home is not an independent cell, containing people within brick-and-mortar con fines. Instead, it emerges as a fluid, interlinked, and expansive realm, de fined by processes beyond the physical edi fice. To build more humane cities that off er ontological security and contribute to the wellbeing of all residents, a paradigm shift is imperative: one that situates this expanded concept of 'home' at the centre of conceiving living environments that not only accommodate, but also nurture interpersonal bonds.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"91 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139132003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The urban space of Rio de Janeiro's peripheral neighbourhoods, transformed by its residents, is analysed as a reference for thinking about alternatives to housing and the city that have been planned previously. The approach to these built environments and their residents' ways of life aims to recognize, record, and disseminate their forms of production of space, that do not correspond to hegemonic models, but are the result of a daily construction process. The live–work unit has a prominent role in the production of its urban environments that, unlike the planned residential areas and contrary to legislation, is mixed with houses for strictly residential use. Responding to economic, cultural, and social demands, the transformations operated in the houses – understood as 'tactics' (De Certeau, 1984) – promote the dilution of the border between private and public space and create transition spaces, with the quality of 'in-between space' (Her berger, 1996). Allowing and encouraging the mixed use of housing and work is analysed for its potential to qualify the urban space, propitiating income generation and reduction of displacements, issues that are even more pressing after the COVID-19 pandemic. A synthesis of the research fi ndings is presented, de fining spatial categories and constructive elements that constitute a repertoire for the project and for discussing changes in legislation that could help in the increase of live–work units.
{"title":"Between the House and the Street Live, Work, and Community Environment in Peripheral Neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro","authors":"Ana Slade","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.3.479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.3.479","url":null,"abstract":"The urban space of Rio de Janeiro's peripheral neighbourhoods, transformed by its residents, is analysed as a reference for thinking about alternatives to housing and the city that have been planned previously. The approach to these built environments and their residents' ways of life aims to recognize, record, and disseminate their forms of production of space, that do not correspond to hegemonic models, but are the result of a daily construction process. The live–work unit has a prominent role in the production of its urban environments that, unlike the planned residential areas and contrary to legislation, is mixed with houses for strictly residential use. Responding to economic, cultural, and social demands, the transformations operated in the houses – understood as 'tactics' (De Certeau, 1984) – promote the dilution of the border between private and public space and create transition spaces, with the quality of 'in-between space' (Her berger, 1996). Allowing and encouraging the mixed use of housing and work is analysed for its potential to qualify the urban space, propitiating income generation and reduction of displacements, issues that are even more pressing after the COVID-19 pandemic. A synthesis of the research fi ndings is presented, de fining spatial categories and constructive elements that constitute a repertoire for the project and for discussing changes in legislation that could help in the increase of live–work units.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homes that Work in Pictures","authors":"Frances Holliss, Howard Davis, Shalini Sinha","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.3.525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.3.525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated widespread remote work options. Reflecting on research from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s on telework and home-based employment that culminated in a 2001 book, Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life , the author reviews what has and has not changed in the experience of remote workers in their homes and communities as they navigate their work and domestic responsibilities. While there are many positive bene fits to remote work, there are still difficulties in balancing home and work life. Social policies are needed that allow more options to fulfil work and household responsibilities, and an integrated approach to the planning of homes, workplaces, and communities.
{"title":"Revisiting Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life","authors":"Penny Gurstein","doi":"10.2148/benv.49.3.344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.3.344","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated widespread remote work options. Reflecting on research from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s on telework and home-based employment that culminated in a 2001 book, Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life , the author reviews what has and has not changed in the experience of remote workers in their homes and communities as they navigate their work and domestic responsibilities. While there are many positive bene fits to remote work, there are still difficulties in balancing home and work life. Social policies are needed that allow more options to fulfil work and household responsibilities, and an integrated approach to the planning of homes, workplaces, and communities.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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