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Women and Urban Settlement
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Synopsis
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.
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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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Details
Sub Title N/A Author Caroline Sweetman Editor No Number of Pages 64 Format Paperback / softback
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