This book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates.
Tigran Haas is the former director of International Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) at KTH, Stockholm and the current director of the New Halcyon Athenaeum Laboratory (HAL). He is a tenured associate professor of Urban Planning + Urban Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, and a guest research scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Cambridge in the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). Haas spans and covers one of the largest and highest profile urbanism networks in the world. He has written over a hundred scholarly articles and completed ten books. Haas is also the recipient of multiple international awards for leadership and management.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction SECTION I - Politicised Spaces and Beyond Doreen Massey On Space Doreen Massey Cities of Capital - The Indifferent City: Learning from Doreen Massey Christine Boyer Unequal Cities, Divided Spaces - The Search of Equality Fran Tonkiss Why Public Space Matters Setha Low Landscape Literacy and Design for Ecological Democracy: The Nature of Mill Creek Ann Whiston Spirn Planning, Design, and the Just City Susan Fainstein Comparative Urbanism in Gentrification Studies: Ongoing Debate Loretta Lees SECTION II - Contemporary Urbanism Grounds The New Design With Nature Nan Ellin Retrofitting Suburbia for 21st Century Challenges Ellen Dunham Jones The Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets and the Architecture of Difference Sharon Zukin The Meta-Principles of Good Urbanism Emily Talen Can Architecture Survive Our Global Housing Crisis? Dana Cuff Leading with Landscape: Investing in Green Infrastructure for Resilience Nina-Marie Lister SECTION III - New Urban Social Geographies Feeling the Past: Heritage, Encounter and Engagement Emma Waterton Memorials as Spaces for Engagement: Design, Use and Meaning Karen Franck Health in the City Anne Vernez Moudon From Housing Projects to Healing Gardens: Reflections on a Career Considering the Psychology of Place Clare Cooper Marcus Enriching Places for Longevity: Does a Gender Perspective Make a Difference? Ann Forsyth How Does Body Conscious Design Contribute to Urbanism? Galen Cranz SECTION IV - Collective City Futures - Dwellings and Cultures Everyday Urbanism: Public Spaces and Beyond Margaret Crawford Edges and Eddies: Learning to be a High-Rise Society in Post-Independence Singapore, 1960-1995 Jane M. Jacobs and Belinda Yuen The Right to Housing Adele Santos Story Telling with the Shapes of Time: Place, Poetry, and Local History Dolores Hayden The City as a Collective Good Saskia Sassen The Empathy Gap: Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy Offers Sherry Turkle List of Contributors Index About the Editor
One of the great things about the Athena Talks in Stockholm is that it is such an intensely organized event with an impressive diversity of ideas and an amazing efflorescence of urban approaches and perspectives. This lively assemblage of leading female urban scholars will have long-term consequences in regard to future debates on architecture and urban design, surely providing a vigorous discussion at the present. -- Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York, architectural critic, writer, urbanist and president of Terreform
