Hi All,<br><br>Here is an essay published today that provides food for thought about the relationship between feminism and connectivity and their possible impact on urban design (the author is an architect and planner). She postulates that the new connectivity &quot;may be  allied  to  a parallel shift in gender 
dominance; a replacement of the aggressive, individualist male paradigm 
with female principles of networking, connectivity and relationship. A 
replacement of thrust, you might say, by chatter. An emergence.&quot; She also wonders if we might have &quot;passed &#39;peak male&#39;, just as we&#39;re said to have passed peak oil, peak water and peak food&quot;. <br>

<br>Interesting. <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/gender-and-the-city-20110916-1kdtd.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/gender-and-the-city-20110916-1kdtd.html</a><br>
<br>Gillian White<br>[[User:Whiteghost.ink]]<br>