By Clara H. Greed
ISBN-10: 0203320395
ISBN-13: 9780203320396
ISBN-10: 0203410289
ISBN-13: 9780203410288
ISBN-10: 0415079802
ISBN-13: 9780415079808
Making plans is at present a male occupation, yet an research of a century of city making plans finds this to be a brand new improvement; ladies were important to the making plans circulation because it begun. ladies and making plans is the 1st complete heritage and research of girls and the making plans stream, overlaying the philosophical, functional and coverage dimensions of `planning for women'. past the marginalization of girls, smooth, clinical making plans hides a narrative of earlier hyperlinks with eugenics, colonialism, creative, utopian and non secular hobbies and the occult. important to the dialogue is the wondering of the way male planners have rewritten making plans of their personal photograph, projecting patriarchal assumptions of their production of `urban realities'. problems with type, sexuality, ethnicity and incapacity are raised by way of the elemental query of `Who is being deliberate for?'
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Many a young woman in a planning office has had to endure taunts from her male colleagues on receiving her pay slip each month to the effect, ‘you don’t need the money; you should be concerned about the working class and the homeless and should give it to them’. It would appear that such advocates of selflessness for others seldom apply the principle to their own lives. They may simply be citing generalized societal problems to diminish the importance of inequalities suffered by women. Indeed many women planners are torn between the need to ascribe to public condemnations of ‘money’ and ‘capitalism’ by their left-wing male colleagues, whilst being overwhelmed in their private lives about how they are going to manage financially.
As will be seen, many of the most powerful people in planning (if power is judged by effect on the built environment) were not planners at all in the professional sense, but WOMEN AND PLANNING 29 outsiders: academics, researchers, writers and creators of realities. Their ideas were believed, and thus they influenced the policies of the planners and politicians who operated the system: that is they led, rather than fitted into, the culture. The most powerful man, that is, Superman according to Nietsche (1973), does not follow any role model, he creates himself as a complete cultural package, and others follow.
Typically, these housewives are portrayed as spending much of their time having coffee mornings, enforcing stereotypes of women as lazy. However, early feminist critiques of suburbia such as Friedan (1963) seemed (to me at least) to be to do with middle-class, American housewives who did not work outside the home. Whilst condemning negative stereotypes, one must acknowledge cultural differences. North America is generally more affluent than Britain, houses are larger, and cities are much more dispersed, with suburbs extending over 50 miles from the centre.