Women Reclaiming the City

Tigran Haas is a tenured associate professor of Urban Planning + Urban Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, and a guest research scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Cambridge in the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). He is also the former director of the International Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) at KTH, and the Graduate Studies in Urbanism (MUSE), Stockholm and the current director of the New Halcyon Athenaeum Laboratory (HAL). Dr. Haas is an architect, urban designer and city planner, knowledge researcher, public speaker, author and all-round leading global urbanism networker. He is the editor of New Urbanism and Beyond, Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond, co-editor of Emergent Urbanism, In The Post-Urban World, and of Essays on Jane Jacobs.

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• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionSECTION I – Politicised Spaces and Beyond 1.Doreen Massey On SpaceDoreen Massey 2.Cities of Capital – The Indifferent City: Learning from Doreen MasseyChristine Boyer 3.Unequal Cities, Divided Spaces – The Search of EqualityFran Tonkiss 4.Why Public Space MattersSetha Low 5.Landscape Literacy and Design for Ecological Democracy: The Nature of Mill Creek Ann Whiston Spirn 6.Planning, Design, and the Just CitySusan Fainstein 7.Comparative Urbanism in Gentrification Studies: Ongoing DebateLoretta LeesSECTION II – Contemporary Urbanism Grounds 8.The New Design With Nature Nan Ellin 9.Retrofitting Suburbia for 21st Century Challenges Ellen Dunham Jones 10.The Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets and the Architecture of Difference Sharon Zukin 11.The Meta-Principles of Good UrbanismEmily Talen 12.Can Architecture Survive Our Global Housing Crisis?Dana Cuff13.Leading with Landscape: Investing in Green Infrastructure f