Gender and the Indian City: Revisioning Design and Planning

Section I: Planning and Policy: From Passive Recipients to Active Participants: Women in Mumbai’s Development Plan - 2034: One Small Step by Women, One Giant Leap in Urban Planning by Nandita Shah and Smruti Koppikar p.3, The Politics of Gendered Place-making Through Urban Planning: A Case Study of Rajarhat New Town, Bengal by Tanushree Paul and Trishnika Bhowmik p.27, From Disenfranchised Citizens to Empowered Change-Agents by Vanishree Herlekar and Bijal Bhatt p.56, Section II: The Trope and Hope of Safe Haven: Building Safer Cities for Women by Kalpana Vishwanath p.87, Resettlement and The Reshaping of Gender Experiences in Ahmedabad by Renu Desai p.106, Section III: Reconfiguring Infrastructure and Ekistics: Women’s Practices of Homemaking: Beyond Policies and Programmes by Rupali Gupte p.135, Eliminating the Gender Pee Gap by Ross Plaster and Pratima Joshi p.160, Walkability and Gender in Indian City Design and Urban Planning by Anal Kapadia Vaishnav and Jaydatt Vaishnav p.181, Cementing Gener: The Planning and Design of Student Housing on Campus by Chayanika Shah p.211, Section IV: Recreational Spaces: (En)Gendering Leisure: Vulnerable Attachments: Gender and Pleasure in ‘Startup’ Bangalore by Hemangini Gupta p.237, Purdah Baghs in Old Delhi: Gendered Spaces in the Public Realm by Amita Sinha and Ayla Khan p.260, Gender and Incidental Public Places: A Case of Vadodara City by Neha Sarwate and Punita Mehta p.276