Citation

Sweet EL, Escalante SO. Urban Stud. 2010; 47(10): 2129-2147.

Affiliation

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Urban Studies Journal Limited, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20722226

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.

Language: en