Figure 2.9 Seestadt Aspern, Vienna (Daniel Hawelka 2017).
Gender Sensitive Planning in Vienna Vienna, Austria has been rated the ‘highest
the Co-ordination Office for Planning and
and 2010 according to the Mercer Study
of Daily Life and the Specific Needs of
quality of living in the world’ in both 2009 (Irschik and Kail, 2013, p.193). There is no doubt that the gender sensitive
planning initiatives this city has done
helped influence this rating. Since 1991,
the city administration has spent decades working towards a gender inclusive city by acknowledging the needs of women
(Irschik and Kail, p.194). In 1991, Eva Kail and Jutta Kleedorfer were the two young female planners who initiated gender
sensitive planning for Vienna. By 1998,
Construction Geared to the Requirements Women, led by Eva Kail, started to include gender sensitive planning within the city’s administration (Irschik and Kail). They
have tackled gendered issues on housing, social spaces, park design, transportation and many others (Irschik and Kail).
Throughout the years, this department has implemented new standards and designs for gender inclusivity that can inspire change in other parts of the world.
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