Book Launch: What if Women Designed the City?

Join author May East for readings, conversation and a participatory exchange to celebrate the launch of her book What if Women Designed the City?

What if Women Designed the City? presents a compelling perspective on urban development as seen through the eyes of women from diverse backgrounds who reveal multiple untapped potentials rooted in the uniqueness of their neighbourhoods.

The book is the result of a research conducted on the move through walking interviews with 274 women seen as experts of the neighbourhoods from both affluent and hard-to-reach areas in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth.

The findings interwoven with gender-sensitive interventions from cities across the world are organised in 33 leverage points understood as places in a complex system where a small shift in one thing can can ripple out into large systemic benefits.

Embedded in the richness of women’s everyday life experiences of walking and living in the city, the book offers new lines of work for urban planners, policymakers, practitioners, and communities to intervene in urban planning systems so that their cities can be greener, wilder, more inclusive, liveable, and poetic.