Our host, Stephanie Fortunato, speaks to Nourhan Bassam, Founding Director of The Gendered City. They discuss the necessity to rethink how cities can be more socially inclusive, the role Cultural Districts can play in promoting that inclusivity, and the many inspiring initiatives Nourhan is championing to push feminist urbanism forward.

External references:

• The Gendered City
• The Gendered City, 2023 book
• FEM DES
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Dolores Hayden
• City with a female face: how modern Vienna was shaped by women
• The world’s most feminist city: how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women

Guest bio:
Nourhan Bassam, a feminist urbanist and architect with a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Placemaking, is the visionary behind "The Gendered City" which started as a book and grew into an organization. The Gendered City works on diverse feminist urban projects and research fields all centered on creating just and gender-equal cities through feminist placemaking and active citizen participation. +