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Women and Urban Settlement

Women and Urban Settlement

By Caroline Sweetman

ISBN: 9780855983482

This text studies aspects of urban life from a gender perspective, with social, technical and political aspects of urban life. Articles cover gender-sensitive urban planning; work migration; community urban regeneration schemes; health care for poor urban women; and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees.

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This text studies the various aspects of urban life from a gender perspective, drawing together social, technical and political aspects of urban life to provide a resource for researchers and planners. Articles cover issues such as gender-sensitive urban planning; work migration; community urban regeneration schemes; health care for poor urban women; and the dislocation and loss of home experienced by refugees.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Caroline Sweetman

Participation in the city: where do women fit in?
Jo Beall

Gender, domestic space, and urban upgrading: a case study from Amman
Seteney Shami

Gender and rural-urban migration in China
Delia Davin

'Dislocation', shelter, and crisis: Afghanistan's refugees and notions of home
Sue Emmott

'Women with self-esteem are healthy women': community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil
Valli F K Yanni

Sustaining urban development through participation: an Ethiopian case study
Feleke Tadele

Interview:
Chris Peters talks to Catalina Trujillo about her work for the UN Agency Habitat

Women in the city of man: recent contributions to the gender and human settlements debate
Carole Rakodi

Resources:
Organisations working in urban development

Further reading

Audio-visual resources.

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Sub Title	N/A
Author	Caroline Sweetman
Editor	No
Number of Pages	64
Format	Paperback / softback

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