Planning responds to gender violence: evidence from Spain, Mexico and the United States

Urban Stud. 2010;47(10):2129-47. doi: 10.1177/0042098009357353.

Abstract

Urban planning has been largely ineffective in addressing urban violence and particularly slow in responding to gender violence. This paper explores the public and private divide, structural inequalities, and issues of ethnicity and citizenship, in terms of their planning implications for gender violence. Drawing on evidence from Spain, Mexico and the United States, it examines how economic and social planning and gender violence intertwine. The three case studies demonstrate that the challenge is not only to break constructed structural inequalities and divisions between public and private spheres, but also to promote changes in the working models of institutions and organisations.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • City Planning* / economics
  • City Planning* / education
  • City Planning* / history
  • City Planning* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Civil Rights / economics
  • Civil Rights / education
  • Civil Rights / history
  • Civil Rights / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Civil Rights / psychology
  • Ethnicity / education
  • Ethnicity / ethnology
  • Ethnicity / history
  • Ethnicity / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Ethnicity / psychology
  • Gender Identity*
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Local Government / history
  • Mexico / ethnology
  • Public-Private Sector Partnerships* / economics
  • Public-Private Sector Partnerships* / history
  • Public-Private Sector Partnerships* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Social Problems* / economics
  • Social Problems* / ethnology
  • Social Problems* / history
  • Social Problems* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Social Problems* / psychology
  • Social Responsibility
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Spain / ethnology
  • United States / ethnology
  • Urban Health* / history
  • Urban Population / history
  • Violence* / economics
  • Violence* / ethnology
  • Violence* / history
  • Violence* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Violence* / psychology