Change of Plans: Towards a Non-Sexist Sustainable City

by Margrit Eichler

Overview

Change of Plans raises questions that are not commonly posed, suggests new avenues for thought in city planning, and contributes to the growing literature on sustainability by merging it with a feminist approach. The book provides a concrete example of a team of academics, planners, and architects that has struggled to combine an environmental with a non-sexist perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780920059333
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Margrit Eichler is Professor of Sociology at OISE/University of Toronto. She has published widely on issues concerning women, family policy, non-sexist methodology, and reproductive technologies. She has lately been attempting to integrate a feminist perspective with an environmental perspective.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements



The Contributors



Foreword

Margrit Eichler



Designing Eco-City in North America

Margrit Eichler



Deconstructing the Man Made City: Feminist Critiques of Planning Thought and Action

Sherilyn MacGregor



Seeking Shelter: Feminist Home Truths

Sylvia Novac



At Risk: The Person Behind the Assumptions

Planning to Protect Human Health

Jeanne Jabanoski



What Do You Want to Do? Pave Parks?

Urban Planning and the Prevention of Violence

Carolyn Whitzman



Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability: Planning for Food Self-Reliance

Connie Guberman



Access Over Excess: Transcending Captivity and Transportation Disadvantage

Sue Zielinski



Planning Change: Not an End but a Beginning

Sherilyn MacGregor



References

What People are Saying About This

Sherilyn MacGregor

For most people, 'feminism' does not immediately evoke thoughts of curb cuts and zoning by-laws. Instead, we tend to think of freedom of reproductive choice, equal pay for work of equal value, and the fight against male violence as examples of 'women's issues.' It seems that few of us, committed feminists included, recognize that our struggles for equality take place within a built environment that has been quite literally man made. As a result, the built environment is often seen as a benign backdrop to the human drama rather than a force which shapes our lives in profound ways.

Editorial Reviews

For most people, ‘feminism’ does not immediately evoke thoughts of curb cuts and zoning by-laws. Instead, we tend to think of freedom of reproductive choice, equal pay for work of equal value, and the fight against male violence as examples of ‘women’s issues.’ It seems that few of us, committed feminists included, recognize that our struggles for equality take place within a built environment that has been quite literally man made. As a result, the built environment is often seen as a benign backdrop to the human drama rather than a force which shapes our lives in profound ways.

For most people, ‘feminism’ does not immediately evoke thoughts of curb cuts and zoning by-laws. Instead, we tend to think of freedom of reproductive choice, equal pay for work of equal value, and the fight against male violence as examples of ‘women’s issues.’ It seems that few of us, committed feminists included, recognize that our struggles for equality take place within a built environment that has been quite literally man made. As a result, the built environment is often seen as a benign backdrop to the human drama rather than a force which shapes our lives in profound ways.

—Sherilyn MacGregor

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