Heidrun WANKIEWICZ, Tussen Ruimte, Netherlands
Lidewij TUMMERS, University of Twente, Netherlands
Since the start of the 20th century, time-space policies have become a successful part of urban strategies that address gender injustice. Understanding diverse, gendered time-space patterns draws attention to care-related activities and enhances their integration in urban planning. Underlaying such policies is the expectation that this leads to a more just division of care-responsibilities, as well as safer and more inclusive public space. It particularly has an impact on transport mobility, which urgently needs to become more accessible as well as less environmentally damaging. Reducing the presence of private fossil-driven cars in the cities gives room to more accessible and liveable public space. Examples of successful urban time-space strategies are: Bozen, IT (Bolzano 2005, 2015)Ref HW, ) Barcelona (http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/pactedeltemps/es), Nantes-Lille -Lyon (https://www.lillemetropole.fr/sites/default/files/2019-01/20180628_Profil_temporel_version_def.pdf URL) and the province of Zuid Holland (Tummers, 2012).
For an Austrian partnership conglomerate of AIT and BoKu, we analyse these examples to understand what actors and methods are involved, how they define urban user groups, and how effective they are in creating a more (gender-)just public space.
The study then provides tangible criteria and conditions for digital (GIS-based) planning tools, to write more gender-just algorithms in the analyses and planning of urban space. Data-collection for digital planning instruments is still relying on gender-biased statistics and a lack of empirical evidence of gendered time-space patterns. It therefor risks to leave care-related activities once more out of the picture.
In this contribution, we present the results of our analyses and signal some pitfalls and opportunities in GIS-based planning that may contribute to spatial justice.
Mots clés : Feminist planning|Inclusive public space|GIS-based methods|Austria
A104692LT