{"c_title":"[M2097.001100] Gender and Urban Planning","c_info":"3 credits | Lecture\/Seminar | Master | Dept. of Environmental Planning","c_summary":"This course aims at exploring alternative approaches revolving around feminist critiques to urban planning.The course introduces the ways \u2018the urban\u2019 has been constructed materially and culturally through gendered power relations and practices, and explores alternative ideas. Recent approaches to urban planning including, but not limited to, feminist approaches argue that not only the material and discursive foundations of modern cities, but also the studies of them themselves have been gendered and sexualized. They even maintains the research focus needs to go beyond gender and to explore the ways other axes of identities intersected with gender produce complex power geometry and different lived experiences particularly by\u2018the Others.\u2019This course introduces these alternative approaches and how they have been incorporated and practiced in the fields of urban planning. The topics include historical contexts in and through which the urban has been gendered from its design and construction to the accessibility to and the representations of it, the interpretations of empirical cases, different urban experiences  by the vulnerable including women, children, sexual minority, the disabled, etc., and planning efforts  that have either amplified or attempted to mitigate such inequality."}