Women Reclaiming the City

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

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