GENDER PRESPECTIVE IN PLANNING
Designing conceptual lay-outs of Chandranagar, Paldi area making the place gender sensitive and more inclusive
• Module: Gender Prespective in Planning • Module Length: 10 days • Faculty Name: Neera Adarkar, Architect, Writer of book titled- “One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices” • Team Members: : Aayush, Aditi, Joseph, Manita, Michael, Rajvi, Ramya, Rutvi, Vikas • Role:
Research work Team lead
Streetscape Design
• Year: 2018
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Developing concept targeting certain users Implementation of different strategies that make the area more gender friendly Design of good walkways
Amenity networks
Syntatic analysis
Transit network
Riverfront plan
Redesigning of the existing place considering all the aspects for making the place more inclusive and gender friendly
Understood how the design of certain places can create gender biases
New designed model for existing place that is more inclusive and gender friendly
Chandra Nagar, Paldi, Ahmedabad Gender-sensitive & Inclusive Development
Location Map Source : ANU School of Planning
Process: An intervention for Chandra Nagar includes designs for:
• Amenity areas • Streetscape • Riverfront
Who? An intervention for Chandra Nagar includes designs for:
Pedestrian Safety Parameters Source : ANU School of Planning
Connectivity & Linkages Source : ANU School of Planning
Observations
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A zebra crossing is seen on both sides of the stretch but in between this is blockage making it hard to use. Unfavorable for physically challenged (disabilities) people to either enter or leave the premises. No clear demarcation of pedestrian path, furniture zone.
There is no clear demarcation of the road i.e. no pedestrians’ path and wrong parking. Source : On site documentation
Streetscape may include (and not limit to)
Sidewalks
Street Corners
Trees and landscape trips
Street Furnishing
Benches
Lighting
Trash receptacles
Signage
Bus shelter
Medians
Curbs
Bicycle facilities
Crossing
Public art
Rain garden
Planters
Cafe spaces Source :https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1687404813000102
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1. Sidewalks
3. Lighting
5. Medians
7. Crossing
2. Trees and landscape
4. Street corners
6. Bicycle facilities
8. Cafe spaces
Tactile Ground Surface Indicators (TGSI) •
These are designed to be used by blind people as a guide to navigate streets, intersections, road crossing, entrance to stairs, subway and train platforms, and so on.
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The blind can feel can feel the texture of lines through their footwear or with the help of a cane. Thus, they can follow a straight line along the sidewalk, turn either right or left when the line switches direction, stop at a crosswalk when the pattern of the surface changes from line to dots.
Source : http://www.digitaljournal.com/blog/21332
Sidewalk ramps for those with mobility disability
Source : http://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2016/06/02/meeting-the-needs-of-all-pedestrians/
Examples
Source : https://pmc.gov.in/en/urban-street-design-guidelinesusdg https://lcc.org.uk/pages/best-cycling-facility
Characteristics of a good sidewalk
Proper Sizing
Quality Surface & Lighting
Universal Accessibility
Efficient Drainage
Gender Mainstreaming Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, a means to achieve the goal of gender equality.
For example: Alternative Development Work in Peru The objective was to recognize the contributions and responsibilities of women in agriculture in Peru and involve them more actively as participants and beneficiaries in the main alternative development activities, rather than developing separate activities for them. •How? By improving the access of women to training as rural promoters in areas where women have traditional roles in agriculture. • Allow increased participation of women in the farmers' associations, both at grassroots and at managerial levels.
Source : http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/gendermainstreaming.htm
Signages/ crossings Gender neutral crosswalk signals
Using realistic body images instead of the traditional male figure Many people of all genders using crosswalks every day do not look like the typical “walking man.� For example: people in wheelchairs, people using walkers, children etc.
Jane Jacob’s ‘Eyes on the Street’ in our Indian cities today
Spokes Amenity Network With a hub and spoke model, one major Women’s centre will come up (on the Riverfront) with little Amenity centres throughout the area based on what each pocket lacks.
• Public Toilets • Emergency Shelter • IPT Stops Last Mile Connectivity
• Public Park • Medical Facility • Commercial
Hub • Centre for Business activities • Inclusive Chill Zones Domestic Workers place to relax, chill and talk
• Women’s Centre with Creche • Single Women Hostels
Syntactic Analysis An axial map was prepared to find out the measure of connectivity of routes to other routes and place the amenity network on highly connected streets.
-Space between two temples -Appropriated as green spaces for public use
Green Pockets An Intermediary Para Transit (IPT) route was designed connecting all existing and developed nodes with the BRTS stations on one side and the Proposed Water Transport system on one side.
-New Proposed commercial and hospital facility hub -Near Mixed use buildings stretch
Commercial + Hospital + Amenity Centre
Reservation for women in para-transit.
Parks avoided(north-east direction), to prevent ill social activities.
Amenity NetworkInferences
Land between two temples- combined to create a common space for all class, gender and age. Compensate low frequency of BRTS through safe and comfortable para transit transport. Route of para-transit ensures access to all parks and connects it to the riverfront. Introduction of more green spaces for easy accessibility. Para- transits stops comprises of various amenities- women/child emergency booths, public toilets, single women hostels.
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An Intermediary Para Transit route was designed connecting all existing and developed nodes with the BRTS stations on one side and the proposed water Transport system on one side.
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Converting a liability that the Sabarmati river had become due to waterlessness, pollution and neglect, into an asset by making it perennially water filled
SRDP – Proposed Outcomes (Sabarmati River Development Project)
Gifting to the citizens a large, centrally located and much needed civic space to the city chronically starved of open spaces, by amalgamating the existing and the reclaimed lands obtained by trimming the river for recreation and leisure purposes. Creating a precedent in form of an institutional mechanism for project planning and implementation, in form of a special purpose vehicle, namely the Sabarmati riverfront development corporation limited (srfdcl), that would serve the city well in the future while planning ambitious and high investment projects
Creating a new and modern landmark, announcing Ahmedabad’s arrival as a `word class’ city to the fast urbanizing global world
Concerns about the land reclamation through the narrowing of the river basin as it does not consider the peculiarity of the Sabarmati’s flood behavior and the relatively new climate change phenomenon.
SRDPCriticism (Sabarmati River
Development Project)
No transparency in agency selection i.e. the designers and planners, on the one hand, and greater sensitivity and public accountability on part of the project authorities, acting as the clients on behalf of the city of five million, on what they selected, approved and why, on the other.
The design of alienation i.e. the wall isolates the river not only from its natural surroundings but it robs the river of its essential identity.
The staircase that would normally adorn an individual home and looks good in a two storey building has become the relieving features of the long blank concrete wall, replacing—eliminating-in the process the cascading steps and stairways that always, without exception, ceremoniously lead to the river.
Wrong priorities causing distortion in design
Ferry Service Point- Using the Sabarmati river as a water transportation system. Tree Plantation / Urban Farming – To integrate green urbanism and sustainability in the city.
SRDPInferences
Street Shopping + Vendors + Open Food Market – To provide residents with easy access to consumer durables and assist in increasing business for shopkeepers/vendors. Water Fountain – To provide a space for peace and tranquility for residents. Community Centre – A hub for all different kinds of activities such as flea markets, exhibitions. Women Working Centre – An entrepreneurial incubation centre for women.
Proposed River Front Design TREE PLANTATION ALONG THE EDGE
FERRY SERVICE POINT
WORKSHOP + STORAGE
IPT DROP OFF
STREET SHOPPING + VENDORS + OPEN FOOD MARKET
JOGGING/ WALKING TRACK
WATER FOUNTAIN
COMMUNITY CENTRE
PLAYGROUND
PUBLIC TOILET
PARK
WOMEN WORKING CENTRE
URBAN FARMING
FOREST
Thank you! ď Š Aayush, Aditi, Joseph, Manita, Michael, Rajvi, Ramya, Rutvi, Vikas