[Gendergap] Feminism, connectivity and urbanism

[Gillian White]

Hi All,

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 "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." She also wonders if we
might have "passed 'peak male', just as we're said to have passed peak oil,
peak water and peak food".

Interesting.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/gender-and-the-city-20110916-1kdtd.html

Gillian White
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