Men and women experience the city differently in a myriad of ways. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. This book is a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning, plus a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates.

Introduction Part 1: Approaching the City 1. From Binaries to Intersections 2. Historical Trends in Cities and Urban Studies 3. Trends in Urban Restructuring, Gender and Feminist Theory 4. Scale, Power and Interdependence Part 2: Gender and the Built Environment 5. Infrastructures of Daily Life 6. Migration, Movement and Mobility 7. Homes, Jobs, Communities and Networks Part 3: Representation and Regulation 8. Planning and Social Welfare 9. Urban Poverty, Livelihood and Vulnerability 10. Cities and Gender - Politics in Practice

Helen Jarvis is lecturer in human geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Paula Kantor is Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, based in Kabul

Jonathan Cloke is Research Associate for the Global and World Cities Group within the Geography Department at Loughborough University, UK